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"It’s no coincidence that the coronavirus has broken out across the country as the president has continued to brag about keeping the disease outside America’s border. Rather than vigorously preparing for a pandemic, federal officials responded in a way that suited the narrative Mr. Trump preferred, focusing most of their attention on travel restrictions, passenger screening and quarantine. Pretending we could wall out the virus not only gave the public a false sense of security, it also left the United States unready for the threat it now faces..."

From the article: "First, he [Trump] needs to have an accurate understanding of the hazard and a clear-eyed understanding of the tools to deal with it. That is the starting point for the strategy. Second, it’s extremely important that you have some way of getting real-time feedback on whether your strategy is actually working. That’s the weakest point for this White House, as we saw with the Puerto Rico response and now with the current coronavirus response..."

From the article: The project was welcomed by Prashant Yadav, visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development and an expert on global health supply chains. “Building very long supply chains for testing has its own set of challenges, often economic and how quickly can you respond. So having shorter supply chains is useful and if they can do this in Senegal for Africa and [in the] U.K. for Europe, that would be my textbook ideal model of how to run a supply chain,” he said. He added that the success of such a project in practice was largely dependent on having reliable infrastructure, such as an uninterrupted energy supply, and sufficient working capital. Development finance institutions could play a role in ensuring that the DiaTropix facility — and others like it — could stay properly financed.