President Trump has faced broad criticism for his response to the coronavirus outbreak – offering confusing advice at times – and now in response has implemented a travel ban and declared a national emergency.
Yet the blame is not just his: the CDC has come under fire for its testing kits with a member of the White House coronavirus taskforce admitting that the system is “failing”.
In this video, we look at the background to all this – the lack of investment in the CDC for years – and how a perfect storm of problems led to a slow response from the world’s largest economy to its first major virus outbreak in a century.
(Subscribe:
——-
Watch more of our explainer series here –
Get more news at our site –
Follow us:
Facebook –
Twitter –
