I’ve been watching the mix of very worrisome mishandling of the Coronavirus by the White House along with more positive developments from within the federal infectious disease bureaucracy. To be clear, in this case I’m talking mainly about things the President and his White House advisors have said – misinformation, happy talk, etc. I’m not talking about ways they may have concretely messed things up in the field. That is much less clear. On the CDC front, I’m not talking about ‘good news’ in terms of the outbreak but rather signs actual experts seem to be doing or saying the right things regardless of President Trump’s nonsense.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1293713