The Department of Health and Human Services, which includes the CDC, has begun an internal review to assess its own mistakes. Combined with messaging from the White House minimizing the disease, that fueled a lackluster response that missed chances to slow the spread of the virus, they said. “There were many, many opportunities not to end up where we are,” Dr. Ashish K. Jha, the director of the Global Health Institute at Harvard, told the AP. And it can often take a week just to get results back. Trump last week rated his administration’s response to the crisis as a perfect 10.

Source: International New York Times March 23, 2020 21:56 UTC