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No Sense of Decency

Donald Trump is changing from an incompetent response to the coronavirus pandemic to an incompetent response to the economic problems caused by his incompetent response to the pandemic. If he had responded competently rather than ignoring the multiple warnings he received from his own people months ago, he may have been able to save ten of thousands of American lives. But his incompetency has even trumped Trump's self-proclaimed mythical genius. According to experts, accurate and prolific testing is necessary to contain the pandemic and to reopen the country. Available in late February, tests developed by the World Health Organization were shipped to nearly 60 countries. But the United States declined their tests and instead relied on tests developed by our Center for Disease Control. The CDC tests were late and not accurate resulting in widespread infection, currently at 1.53 million cases and over 91 thousand deaths (1). Why Trump declined to use the WHO tests has not been