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Melinda Gates grades the Trump administration's coronavirus response
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/melinda-gates-grades-the-trump-administrations-coronavirus-response-and-its-a-pretty-low-score-2020-05-08?mod=mw_more_headlinesMelinda Gates grades the Trump administrations coronavirus response and its a pretty low score
Published: May 8, 2020 at 11:14 a.m. ET
By Nicole Lyn Pesce
We need leadership at the national level, she says
Well its technically a passing grade, right?
Melinda Gates, co-chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, gave the Trump administration a D-minus for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
We need leadership at the national level, Gates told Politico. She pinned her low marks on the countrys lack of a coordinated response for two months now.
We have governors who are stepping up, luckily, but now we have 50 different homegrown state solutions instead of a national response.
Gates, 55, cited Germany as an exemplar country that has testing and contact tracing down to a science. Germanys COVID-19 case count as of Friday morning was 169,430, with 7,392 deaths. Americas case count was 1.26 million, the highest in the world for weeks now, with 75,670 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
If the U.S. followed Germanys example, she said, We would be testing, first, health care workers and then the most vulnerable, and youd be doing contact tracing. And we would be able to start thinking about slowly, slowly reopening places in society in safe and healthy ways, but we have a lack of a coordinated effort.
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Melinda Gates grades the Trump administration's coronavirus response (Original Post)
saidsimplesimon
May 2020
OP
smb
(3,475 posts)1. She Must Have Graded On A Curve nt
iemitsu
(3,888 posts)2. The voice of a reasonable and smart person.
Something we never get from Trump.
hlthe2b
(102,357 posts)3. D- was never a passing score for anywhere I went to school...
Still, she obviously "grades" on a curve.