The Trump administration was slow to roll out coronavirus diagnostic tests, a delay critics say put the public at greater risk and demonstrated that the president is not prepared to handle the disease outbreak.
President Trump has been criticized for downplaying the severity of the outbreak in the United States and for delays in getting diagnostic tests to doctors who need them for their patients. He’s dismissed such criticisms, saying Friday that “anybody that needs a test gets a test,” yet the reality is that the U.S. failed to make the tests easily accessible early on, even with weeks to prepare.
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