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The Trump administration’s pandemic response was still being picked apart for its delays, improvisation, and refusal to treat early warnings with urgency. By March 19, 2021, the story had moved well beyond hindsight: officials and investigators were laying out how the failure had been built into the response from the start.
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The Trump administration’s pandemic response was still being picked apart for its delays, improvisation, and refusal to treat early warnings with urgency. By March 19, 2021, the story had moved well beyond hindsight: officials and investigators were laying out how the failure had been built into the response from the start.
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The Trump administration’s pandemic response was still being picked apart for its delays, improvisation, and refusal to treat early warnings with urgency. By March 19, 2021, the story had moved well beyond hindsight: officials and investigators were laying out how the failure had been built into the response from the start.
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