Experts are calling for a 9/11-style commission on U.S. coronavirus response. Here’s where it could start
By the most basic of measurements — rates of illness and death — the U.S. response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been catastrophic.
Nearly 130,000 Americans have died of the respiratory disease since February. Over 2.5 million have become sick. And perhaps most jarringly, in states like Arizona, Texas, California, and Florida, the situation appears to be getting worse, not better: New coronavirus cases and deaths are skyrocketing amid substantial resistance to basic public health measures like social distancing and wearing masks. The U.S., broadly, is the only major developed country to have so dramatically failed to contain the virus.
