Actually, His administration deserves some credit for getting the vaccines out so quickly though Pfizer's vaccine development apparently wasn't involved in it.
His ""base"" has, on Tornado at least, parroted applause for Trump personally on that in spite of the evidence suggesting that is misguided. On Trump's initial response, guess you know, see:
John Oliver gets it right again. Trump fucked up on three basic facets of virus fighting - preparation, communication and coordination. On the question, Bush and Obama were on the mark. Trump lowered the drawbridge, increasing the probability any deadly airborne virus could hit America hard:
How Trump let coronavirus take over America [...] 2017-2020: Withdrew CDC staff from China Between 2017 and 2020, the Trump administration reduced the number of CDC staff in China — the presumed epicenter of the outbreak — from 47 to just 14, Reuters reported on March 25. [...] Trump's "drain the swamp" means 'drain the expertise'. Excerpt from yours .. "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.
Still, considering how bad the rest of his time was you could be right in saying: "Actually, the Trump administration's response to the Covid virus was probably hat administration's finest moment. It's sort of paradoxical that his "base" refuses to acknowledge it."
Putting Trump's personal failures aside there is much question about how his administration handled it once it took root in America. Take the relationship with the SDC for one. We have the first paragraph of the wiki article:
The task force reviewed all coronavirus-related actions by federal agencies, and overruled the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) several times.[13][14] The New York Times reported that the CDC's leadership has been criticized during the pandemic, for mismanaging the testing kit rollout and changing its guidance on transmission of the virus; the White House says it is following the science in overruling the CDC.[14] In March 2020, the task force deployed a team to cope with test kit shortages across the country, overseen by Brett Giroir, recognizing that the shortages were a serious threat to the country.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Coronavirus_Task_Force
And at a glance some apparent differing position put:
H.H.S. backs Trump reelection, blocks C.D.C. science expertise - C.D.C. Testing Guidance Was Published Against Scientists’ Objections [...] A heavily criticized recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month about who should be tested for the coronavirus was not written by C.D.C. scientists and was posted to the agency’s website despite their serious objections, according to several people familiar with the matter as well as internal documents obtained by The New York Times.
The guidance said it was not necessary to test people without symptoms of Covid-19 even if they had been exposed to the virus. It came at a time when public health experts were pushing for more testing rather than less, and administration officials told The Times that the document was a C.D.C. product and had been revised with input from the agency’s director, Dr. Robert Redfield .. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/us/politics/coronavirus-testing-trump-cdc.html .
But officials told The Times this week that the health department did the rewriting itself and then “dropped” it into the C.D.C.’s public website, flouting the agency’s strict scientific review process.
“That was a doc that came from the top down, from the H.H.S. and the task force,” said a federal official with knowledge of the matter, referring to the White House task force on the coronavirus. “That policy does not reflect what many people at the C.D.C. feel should be the policy.”
The document contains “elementary errors” — such as referring to “testing for Covid-19,” as opposed to testing for the virus that causes it — and recommendations inconsistent with the C.D.C.’s stance that mark it to anyone in the know as not having been written by agency scientists, according to a senior C.D.C. scientist who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of a fear of repercussions.
Adm. Brett Giroir, the administration’s testing coordinator and an assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services, the C.D.C.’s parent organization, said in an interview Thursday that the original draft came from the C.D.C., but he “coordinated editing and input from the scientific and medical members of the task force.”
Over a period of a month, he said, the draft went through about 20 versions, with comments from Dr. Redfield; top members of the White House task force, Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx; and Dr. Scott Atlas, President Trump’s adviser on the coronavirus. The members also presented the document to Vice President Mike Pence, who heads the task force, Admiral Giroir said.
He said he did not know why the recommendation circumvented the usual C.D.C. scientific review. “I think you have to ask Dr. Redfield about that. That certainly was not any direction from me whatsoever,” he said.
Dr. Redfield could not be reached for comment.
The question of the C.D.C.’s independence and effectiveness as the nation’s top public health agency has taken on increasing urgency as the nation approaches 200,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic and Mr. Trump continues to criticize its scientists and disregard their assessments. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=158371281
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His administration deserves some credit for Warp speed, exactly who and how though::
Covid was just as unique for all world leaders. World leaders handled covid differently. So forget your "However, he was dealing with an entirely new event." furphy. [...] Now, it's interesting and it shows in the books, when Peter Marks, who is a career staffer at FDA, came up with the idea of Operational Warp Speed, because he's a sci-fi nut, he presented it to [former HHS Secretary] Alex Azar at HHS. Azar's incoming view before that meeting was that it would take too long to develop a vaccine and that they shouldn't focus on vaccines, we should focus on therapies. To Azar's credit after he heard Marks out, and Marks' plan for how to get focused on developing vaccines more rapidly, Azar supported it and decided to fund it. And the rest is history. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=169362584
I'm not certain how much of yours was tongue in cheek, or not.
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