Scientists fault gov't and private industry response for U.S. coronavirus spread
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By Mark Gruenberg

Two top scientists-the chief of occupational medicine at the University of Illinois and the Dean of the Baylor University's School of Tropical Medicine-are faulting the federal government's and private industry's response for the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus in the U.S.

And the top union for registered nurses, National Nurses United, found in a nationwide survey of 6,500 nurses, and counting, that only 44% report their hospitals and nursing homes have trained them in how to recognize and cope with the coronavirus, and only 29% have plans to isolate coronavirus sufferers.

The remarks, from Dr. Peter Orris of the University of Illinois at Chicago and Dr. Peter Hotez of Baylor University, came as the U.S. death toll from coronavirus rose to 14, and as data shows workers and older patients at nursing homes are particularly at risk of becoming ill and-for the elderly-dying.

GOP President Donald Trump has put out rosy views about the U.S. response to the virus, which has infected tens of thousands of people in Hubei Province, China, where it originated, and killed thousands of them. The World Health Organization has declared the coronavirus threatens to become a worldwide pandemic, if it hasn't already. A milestone of 100,000 global cases was passed early Friday morning....

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