Washington Post's report exposes White House's 4 failures since coronavirus crisis
Xinhua |
Updated: 2020-04-19 17:00
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Finding the coronavirus crisis similar to 9/11, the article said the White House remained deaf to the nonstop warnings "until the enemy had already struck."
After 47 interviews with officials, public health experts, intelligence officers, and others, the report said four major failures occurred over the first 70 days of the coronavirus crisis that now stands as "critical time that was squandered."
First, the White House and its public health officials mistakenly placed their trust in the US CDC for being able to develop a diagnostic test on its own.
The report noted that the CDC, notwithstanding its prominent place in global infectious disease control and prevention, was not built to "mass-product tests."
