Trump's incompetence and cuts to health infrastructure are the biggest threat to the nation's health
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The world is at the tipping point for a COVID-19 pandemic, but as Mark Sumner writes, «Avoiding disaster still seems possible.» That depends, though, on the U.S. responding effectively, and with impeached president Donald Trump at the helm, the chTrump's incompetence and cuts to health infrastructure are the biggest threat to the nation's health
The world is at the tipping point for a COVID-19 pandemic, but as Mark Sumner writes, «Avoiding disaster still seems possible.» That depends, though, on the U.S. responding effectively, and with impeached president Donald Trump at the helm, the chances of that happening feel frighteningly slim. Let's start back in April 2018 when then-national security advisor pressured Tom Bossert, who was in charge of the Department of Homeland Security's global health efforts, to resign along with his whole team. Then a month later, the White House forced out Bossert's counterpart at the national security council, Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer, and eliminated his entire team which was responsible for leading the U.S. response to deadly pandemics. There is no senior administration official now solely responsible for global health security, coordinating and directing the various departments among the agencies responsible for public health and epidemic response. That's barely the beginning of this administration's failures, though. Read more