It's still unclear whether President Trump grasps the gravity of the coronavirus crisis | Analysis by stcollinson
The man who said he knew more about ISIS than the generals and claimed to have stunned dumfounded aides with his scientific acuity prides himself on a mystical instinct to make right calls. Yet Trump's leadership in the worst domestic crisis since World War II has consistently featured wrong, ill-informed and dangerous decisions, omissions and politically fueled pivots.
"If by that time we have put into place all of the countermeasures that you need to address this, we should do reasonably well. If we don't do that successfully, we could be in for a bad fall and a bad winter," Fauci said on Tuesday during an Economic Club of Washington webinar. The President is again pushing aggressively for states to get back to business quickly -- despite balking at Georgia's aggressive plan last week.
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