In contrast, at least Europe seems to have the virus under control.
“If medical professionals were allowed to operate in the United States, you would arrive late in March to recover,” said Scott Lucas, Professor of International Studies at the University of Birmingham, England.
“But of course, the medical and professional health care professionals were not allowed to proceed without control,” he said, referring to Mr. Trump’s frequent interruption by his own experts.
When the virus first appeared in the United States, Mr. Trump and his supporters quickly dismissed it as a “hoax” as a virus that would soon disappear once warmer weather arrived.
At one point, Mr. Trump suggested that ultraviolet light when injected would remove the virus. (He later said he was physical.)
Mr Trump’s frequent complaints about Dr Anthony Fauci have regularly made headlines in Europe, where the US infectious disease expert is a respected eminent pig. Italy’s leading Covid hospital offered Dr Fauci a job when Mr Trump fired him.
Mr. Trump has defended the U.S. response, accusing China, where the virus was first discovered, of America’s problems, saying U.S. numbers are so high because there have been so many tests.
Trump supporters and Americans who have refused to wear masks against all medical advice are back on this line.
Dr. David Ho, director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, who leads a team seeking treatments for Covid-19, decides such behavior, as well as land-based treatment of the virus.
“There is no national strategy, no national leadership and there is no compulsion for the public to act in unison and implement the measures together,” he said. “That’s what it costs and we have left that completely as a nation.”
When he gets Zoom talks with colleagues from all over the world, “everyone can not believe what they see in the US and they can not believe the words are coming out of the lead”.
Even the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has taken the unusual step of criticizing the US when she urged Washington to reconsider its decision to break ties with the WHO.
She also slammed US efforts to buy supplies of any vaccine that could prove effective, promising that the EU will work to provide access to everyone “regardless of where they live”.
Many Europeans proudly point to their national health care systems that not only test but also treat Covid for free, in contrast to the American system where the virus crisis has only exacerbated income and racial inequality in access to health care.
“The coronavirus has brutally stripped the vulnerability of a country that has slipped for years,” wrote Italian author Massimo Gaggi in his new book Crack America (Broken America) about American problems that Covid has long predated.
Mr Gaggi said he started the book last year and then thought the title would be taken as a provocative alarm clock. Then the virus struck.
“By March, the title was no longer a provocation,” he said. “It was, of course.”
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