Senators blast Trump administration for coronavirus response by alexnazaryan
Having spread well beyond its origin in the city of Wuhan of China, COVID-19, as the disease caused by the virus is known, now appears poised to become a pandemic. Although there have been no recorded fatalities in the United States yet, skeptical members of the U.S. Senate made clear to administration officials that they did not have confidence in their response.
That assertion only served to further irritate the Louisiana senator. “You’re the secretary,” Kennedy retorted. “I think you ought to know the answer.”Kennedy then proceeded to quiz Wolf about how the coronavirus was transmitted. Wolf began to answer when Kennedy interrupted him again. That was certainly the case during the respective appropriations hearings attended by Wolf, the acting Homeland Security director, and Health and Human Services Secretary secretary Alexander Azar. Both men are involved in the administration’s response to coronavirus, as well as its controversial policies on the U.S. border with Mexico.
Kennedy, the Republican from Louisiana, confronted Wolf with the president’s statements from India. Apparently unmollified by the president’s optimistic assertions, Kennedy demanded of Wolf just how many more cases the United States could expect.Wolf began to say that Health and Human Services had “medical professionals” presumably doing that work. Only he found himself cut off by Kennedy, who was growing plainly annoyed.
Wolf additionally said that a vaccine was “several months” away. Public health officials at the CDC, however, estimate that developing a vaccine that is ready for dissemination will take a full year to develop, test and mass produce. In his opening statement, Azar said that risk to Americans from the coronavirus was “low,” but that the spread of the virus to nations outside of East Asia was “deeply concerning.”
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