More than 162,000 coronavirus deaths have been reported across the United States.
Nearly 41 percent of U.S. adults reportedThe president has sought to avoid responsibility for mounting a national response to the pandemic, leaving major decisions about containing the virus to state governors. At times, Trump has encouraged popular resistance to wearing face masks and following other guidelines recommended by health officials in his administration.
Trump has also erroneously blamed coronavirus testing for the United States’ high death toll and caseload. Surges of infections across the South and West this summer outpaced the expansion of tests in many places, and rising positivity rates and hospitalizations made clear that the virus spread was accelerating.This was not the first time Romney has been critical of Trump’s handling of the pandemic. On May 12 he criticized the Trump administration’s early coronavirus testing rollout.
In his Friday interview, Romney said the administration did not “ring all the alarm bells” early on in the pandemic. He faulted officials for failing to put the federal government in charge of distributing personal protective equipment, manufacturing essential supplies and setting guidelines for businesses.“From the outset, there was a tendency on the part of the administration to dismiss covid-19 as a threat, not to consider how serious it could be come,” he said.
Nationwide testing remains far below what health experts say is necessary to adequately track the course of the virus and prevent new outbreaks. Over the past two weeks, the seven-day average for tests administered daily in the United States has fallen sharply after increasing steadily since the beginning of the pandemic. As of Friday, the country was administering an average of about 747,000 tests daily, down from a peak of about 823,000 in late July, according to data from
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