Robert Reich4 years ago, an exec for a top PPE producer testified to Congress that in Jan 2020 (as fear of covid began to spread) his firm offered to ramp up production to make 1.7 million N95 masks available to the public per week.
The Trump admin said no.
bouriquet@rbreich That was the same Trump administration that ignored the already-prepared playbook on a national pandemic developed by the Obama administration.
A pandemic plan was in place. Trump abandoned it — and science — in the face of Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic is a crisis that must be understood and addressed using science. We are failing to solve it because America is led by an administration that not only isn't scientific but is actively anti-science.