‘Absolute Clusterf–k’: Inside the Denial and Dysfunction of Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force

This story appears in the May 2020 issue of Rolling Stone, on newsstands May 5th.

Story continuesIf those projections were even in the ballpark, a crisis of unimaginable proportions was fast approaching. Dr. Eva Lee, a health care operations expert at Georgia Tech, warned that there would likely be a critical shortage of personal protective equipment for nurses and doctors. Lee wrote, “I do not know if we have enough resources to protect all front-line providers.”

There was confusion in the response from the start. In January, Trump picked HHS Secretary Alex Azar II, the former president of pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, to lead his new Coronavirus Task Force. The problem was, there was already a senior official at HHS whose job was coordinating the federal government’s response to a nationwide pandemic, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Robert Kadlec.

Other federal employees involved in the response effort have had to respond to different and sometimes competing requests and directives from Pence’s task force and Kushner’s task force. “All of those roles and responsibilities should be relatively well-established,” says one public-health official who’s dealt with the White House.

Adding to the confusion, the White House has made crucial pledges and then failed to meet them. In early March, Pence vowed that more than a million tests would be ready within days. Azar followed that up by saying there would be “up to 4 million tests” available by the middle of March. Yet by March 31st, there had been just more than 1 million tests conducted.

Tony Montana says you gotta squash the cockroaches before they get the chance to crawl up your legs...

THEY ALL Were Too Busy With The Impeachment

Not to mention the coronavirus was a democrat hoax! 🤦🏻

This is written by Rolling Stone, not a reliable source!

Keep up reporting fake news or you take the title from CNN. Disgraceful.

I’m just here to read the denial, deflection and wishful thinking by the cutlists. 😷

Looks like America doesn't agree with you Yahoo!

Much more sober and honest analysis

Within time they’ll get it together.

The epitome of FakeNews . You are a disgrace

...and China are thrilled.

Media fumbled it.

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