The US ‘rendered itself incapable’ of handling a disease epidemic
To control the spread of coronavirus, China has locked down 60 million people in the city of Wuhan, winning high praise from the World Health Organization. Of course, that could never happen in the United States. So what could we do if hit by a comparable epidemic?
Not as much as we should, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer and author Laurie Garrett.
Garrett, formerly with the Council on Foreign Relations, says the Trump administration “has intentionally rendered itself incapable” of responding effectively if a virus were spreading here.