Melinda Gates, co-chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, gave President Donald Trump's administration a 'D-minus' on its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, criticizing lack of leadership on both national and international levels.
"We have governors who are stepping up, luckily, but now we have 50 different homegrown state solutions instead of a national response," Gates said in an interview with Politico.
Melinda Gates, co-chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, gave the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic a D-minus, saying it's created "chaos" in the U.S. "You know, if we were doing the things that the exemplar countries are doing, like Germany, we would be testing," she told Politico. "We would be testing, first, health care workers and then the most vulnerable, and you'd be doing contact tracing."
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