ForReal, Two garbage sources those two. Your attempts to shift monumental blame from Trump rivals those attempts by Trump to do the same.
Bottom line: DrHarleyboy, Better to start with Trump's dismantling of protections Obama left him.
Tearex, All Trump's masks, PPE/ventilators et al is playing catch-up for his dismantling of protections and slow early start.
And don't forget, in countries overseas Trump dismantled America's forward defense against the emergence of new viruses.
"In May 2018, Trump ordered the NSC’s entire global health security unit shut down, calling for reassignment of Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer and dissolution of his team inside the agency. The month before, then-White House National Security Advisor John Bolton pressured Ziemer’s DHS counterpart, Tom Bossert, to resign along with his team. Neither the NSC nor DHS epidemic teams have been replaced. The global health section of the CDC was so drastically cut in 2018 that much of its staff was laid off and the number of countries it was working in was reduced from 49 to merely 10. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=158854333
Remember who said there would be a miracle and that it was just disappear one day. Then there was