COVID VERSUS EBOLA

   The EBOLA virus epidemic in West Africa occurred during the Obama administration. President Obama appointed Ron Klain as the coordinator for the response to the virus. The USA led an international response to the epidemic and brought the crisis under control. There were 11 cases seen in the USA, 9 contracted the virus outside of the USA and 2 were nurses who caught the disease from a patient (one of the 9 who caught it outside of the USA). The response of President Obama and his "EBOLA czar" Ron Klain prevented an epidemic from occurring in our country.

   The COVID pandemic began in China and spread to other countries including the USA. President Trump tried to sweep the COVID crisis under the rug initially calling it a "hoax." Until a vaccine or effective treatment are created, it has become evident that the appropriate response is wearing masks,  social distancing, testing, personal protective equipment for health care providers, honesty with the public, and opening up properly after it is certain that the problem is under control. Europe, South Korea, China, and other countries, after instituting appropriate responses and sticking to them, have contained the virus and are bringing their economies back to a reasonable extent. The pandemic (with its resultant economic disaster) is still out of control in the USA because of the lack of federal leadership under Trump. Trump has treated COVID politically and personally instead of relying on the science. 

   If Trump had been president during the EBOLA crisis, he would not have led an international response as President Obama had done. He would have said why should we care about what is happening in Africa. That's not our problem. As a result the virus would have spread outside of West Africa to the USA just as COVID has. If President Obama (or the future President Biden) were president now, our response to COVID would have been early, correct, and based on science rather than politics, and the epidemiologic and resulting economic crisis in the USA would be contained. We would again be the world heroes instead of the contaminated ones.

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