on March 21, Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, had told a gathering of private sector officials: “The federal government is not going to lead this response. It’s up to the states to figure out what they want to do.” At the same time, President Trump was privately telling Bob Woodward: “You know, it’s a local problem. You can’t solve that federally.”1 One of our members, a former public health official out in the field, said it reminded her of The Hunger Games. “It was like there was an invasion on U.S. soil by a foreign adversary and the White House was telling
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