"'Donald Trump is not responsible for COVID-19, but he is responsible for our slow, uncoordinated response," Joe Biden tweeted Friday.
The Trump-acted-too-late story line would be more convincing if Mr. Biden and other Democrats had called for bolder action early in the crisis, but they didn't.
Mr. Biden rambled about Ebola and establishing an office in the White House to handle pandemics and spoke of increasing funding to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health.
Mr. Bloomberg accused Mr. Trump of having "Defunded" the CDC, so "We don't have anybody to respond." In fact, though Mr. Trump three times proposed reducing the CDC's budget for emerging and zoonotic infectious diseases, each time Congress raised it instead. Only on March 15 in Washington did coronavirus become a central focus.
Mr. Biden talked about providing assistance and ensuring every state has at least 10 drive-through test centers before quickly running out of steam like a boxer hoping for a bell.
Mr. Sanders harped on Medicare for All and twice misidentified Covid-19 as "The Ebola crisis" before saying, "You've got Ebola in my head here right now." Mr. Biden confused Covid-19 with swine flu, which he called "N1H1" rather than H1N1, and then, forgetting the name Ebola, referred to it as "What happened in Africa." Jake Tapper asked Mr. Biden if he would call for a national lockdown.
Mr. Biden again drifted back to Ebola and said "We should insist on having our experts in China" and impose unspecified "Consequences" if Beijing refused.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-democrats-2020-coronavirus-hindsight-11587317439?mod=hp_opin_pos_2
The Trump-acted-too-late story line would be more convincing if Mr. Biden and other Democrats had called for bolder action early in the crisis, but they didn't.
Mr. Biden rambled about Ebola and establishing an office in the White House to handle pandemics and spoke of increasing funding to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health.
Mr. Bloomberg accused Mr. Trump of having "Defunded" the CDC, so "We don't have anybody to respond." In fact, though Mr. Trump three times proposed reducing the CDC's budget for emerging and zoonotic infectious diseases, each time Congress raised it instead. Only on March 15 in Washington did coronavirus become a central focus.
Mr. Biden talked about providing assistance and ensuring every state has at least 10 drive-through test centers before quickly running out of steam like a boxer hoping for a bell.
Mr. Sanders harped on Medicare for All and twice misidentified Covid-19 as "The Ebola crisis" before saying, "You've got Ebola in my head here right now." Mr. Biden confused Covid-19 with swine flu, which he called "N1H1" rather than H1N1, and then, forgetting the name Ebola, referred to it as "What happened in Africa." Jake Tapper asked Mr. Biden if he would call for a national lockdown.
Mr. Biden again drifted back to Ebola and said "We should insist on having our experts in China" and impose unspecified "Consequences" if Beijing refused.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-democrats-2020-coronavirus-hindsight-11587317439?mod=hp_opin_pos_2
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