America’s COVID Surge Breaks Another Threshold, and the Trump Team Still Won’t Own It
The United States topped 50,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day on July 2, a grim milestone that underscored how badly the summer surge was accelerating. The federal response was still trapped between denial and spin, with the White House treating the spike as a messaging problem instead of a public-health emergency. The practical result was more confusion, more distrust, and a growing sense that the country had lost the plot while its leaders argued over the optics.
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America’s COVID Surge Breaks Another Threshold, and the Trump Team Still Won’t Own It
The United States topped 50,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day on July 2, a grim milestone that underscored how badly the summer surge was accelerating. The federal response was still trapped between denial and spin, with the White House treating the spike as a messaging problem instead of a public-health emergency. The practical result was more confusion, more distrust, and a growing sense that the country had lost the plot while its leaders argued over the optics.
The United States topped 50,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day on July 2, a grim milestone that underscored how badly the summer surge was accelerating. The federal response was still trapped between denial and spin, with the White House treating the spike as a messaging problem instead of a public-health emergency. The practical result was more confusion, more distrust, and a growing sense that the country h…
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