“If it had killed twice as many people and killed kids,” says Lewis, “you wouldn’t be seeing these revolts in Oklahoma. Photograph: Jaap Buitendijk/APThe way Lewis tells it, the US practically invented pandemic planning, after George W Bush read a book in the summer of 2005 about the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic. According to Lewis, it was George W Bush who spurred the US to put much of its pandemic planning in place. Photograph: Jonathan Drake/ReutersFor many observers, not only did the Trump administration fail the United States, it also vacated its long-established position as world leader. That said, the UK does have a national health service, but it didn’t stop us from being among the nations with the highest per capita death rate from Covid.

Source: The Guardian May 09, 2021 10:30 UTC