'Yes, it is the president's fault': New York Times reporter rips into the Trump administration's response to the pandemic and says he thinks CDC head should resign
New York Times science and health reporter Donald McNeil Jr. spoke with CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday, May 12, 2020.New York Times science and health reporter Donald McNeil Jr. slammed President Donald Trump and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield for the US' impetuous coronavirus response.
McNeil also said that the CDC was run by "incompetent leadership" and said that US agencies faced "suppression from the top," which stunted their coronavirus response.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more storiesNew York Times science and health reporter Donald McNeil Jr.
"We completely blew it for the first two months of our response," he said. "We were in a 'headless chicken' phase." McNeil said that compared to other countries, the US did not enforce strict-enough lockdown measures or implement widespread testing before it was too late.
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