Sunday's Headlines: Denial, dysfunction, delays: Tracing Trump administration’s failures over first 70 days of the virus fight
Analysis: How Trump's attempts to win the daily news cycle feed a chaotic response; In this New York ICU, health-care workers with little to offer covid-19 patients soldier on; Inside the Javits Center: New York's militarized, makeshift hospital; Across the U.S., the coronavirus is killing more men than women, data show; America was unprepared for a major crisis. Again.; With Passover, Easter and Ramadan looming, clergy scramble to create holidays at a distance; Inside the ouster of Capt. Brett Crozier; Trump's career is built on finding shortcuts. Against the virus, there are none.; Trump has handled the coronavirus the way he handles everything: Like a toddler; I'm a funeral director. The pandemic has made saying goodbye painfully lonely.; My hospital used to have all kinds of ICUs. Now we just have the covid-19 one.; Foot-dragging GOP governors are imperiling the whole country; Some top Sanders advisers urge him to consider ending presidential bid; How long until sports can return? You might not like the answer. ; For Alzheimer's researchers, a long and frustrating struggle to find a drug
It may never be known how many thousands of deaths, or millions of infections, might have been prevented with a response that was more coherent, urgent and effective. But even now, there are many indications that the administration's handling of the crisis had potentially devastating consequences.
By Yasmeen Abutaleb, Josh Dawsey, Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller ●Read more »
Facing a global pandemic, President Trump still seems to lurch from moment to moment, with his methods and messages each day disconnected from — and in some cases contradictory to — the ones just prior.
Inadequate planning, uneven leadership, lack of agility and bureaucratic inertia compound problems when disasters hit, say veterans of past national crises.
Those encouraging Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to think about withdrawing from the presidential race include his campaign manager, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.
President Trump on Saturday said sports leagues want to return soon. But disease experts suggest that the possibility of no major events until next year may be more real than many believe.
Over 200 promising leads failed in the past decade. But scientists say the disease and its causes are much more complex than studies first appreciated.
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