.MaddowBlog: Team Trump's coronavirus response blasted as 'doomed from the start'
Since January, epidemiologists, former U.S. public health officials and experts have been warning, publicly and privately, that the administration's insistence that containment was -- and should remain -- the primary way to confront an emerging infectious disease was a grave mistake.
There were not enough COVID-19 testing kits, hotlines were overwhelmed, and hospitals and public health departments were hobbled by a lack of reliable statistics on the spread of the disease. Experts say the U.S. response is now likely weeks -- if not months -- behind schedule. "The containment strategy was doomed from the start," said Jeremy Konyndyk, who directed USAID's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance during the Ebola outbreak and is a member of the World Health Organization committee overseeing health emergencies.
William Hanage, an associate professor of epidemiology at the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard, added in a new,"The battle to keep covid-19 from becoming established in the United States is probably over without a single shot being fired. We were not outwitted, outpaced or outflanked. We knew what was coming. We just twiddled our thumbs as the coronavirus waltzed in.
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