“In the seven weeks since the president promised that anyone who needed a test could get one, the United States has conducted about 5.4 million [coronavirus] tests, far more than any other country, but still the equivalent of only about 1.6 percent of the total population.” The percentage of the population hasn’t changed since the last time I did the math a couple weeks ago. “Rather than one coordinated federal response, the Trump administration has been engaging on an ad hoc basis as states take the lead.” Since then, Mr. Trump has promised ventilators would go to Ethiopia, Honduras, Indonesia, El Salvador, Ecuador.

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