Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis is an indictment of his handling of the pandemic, experts say. Is it also a teachable moment?
President Trump’s diagnosis reveals just how far short the federal pandemic response has fallen, failing to protect even the commander-in-chief, public health leaders said Friday.
The president’s case “is exemplary of our failure at the federal level," said Dr. Michael Mina, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
But experts also said that failure need not be the end of the story. In the president’s diagnosis, some saw an opportunity to course-correct. The question is whether Trump will see his illness as a way to change his own narrative.
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