Deadly Mistakes

In Defying the Odds, we discuss the 2016 campaign.  The update  -- recently published --includes a chapter on the 2018 midterms.  In 2020, a good economy could tip the election in Trump's favor.  A bad economy would drag him down. Coronavirus threatens the economy -- as well as American lives.

An epidemiological model suggests that opening the country up at Easter, as President Trump wants to, rather than two weeks later would kill an additional 450,000 Americans https://t.co/um9NI8ZzjT

If you want to reopen the economy, you need widespread testing first

— Ana Swanson (@AnaSwanson) March 26, 2020

.@atrupar writes that urging Americans to flock to churches on Easter Sunday is the starkest example yet of how much Trump does not understand the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic. https://t.co/b8BYvscgz6

— Vox (@voxdotcom) March 25, 2020

“Ford’s timeline suggested that if the administration had reacted to the acute shortage of ventilators in February, the joint effort between Ford and General Electric might have produced lifesaving equipment sometime in mid- to late April” https://t.co/mnuTJbvPEQ

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 25, 2020

SCOOP: We obtained the detailed National Security Council “pandemic response playbook” left by the Obama team for the Trump team. It was, basically, “thrown onto a shelf.” w/ @ddiamond https://t.co/BPQYLLkyL0

— Nahal Toosi (@nahaltoosi) March 26, 2020

Health officials world-wide are warning about using antimalarial drugs to treat coronavirus after Trump’s comments about them sparked panic-buying and overdoses https://t.co/vDSocdlM9g via @WSJ

— James Bedsworth (@JamesBedsworth) March 26, 2020