Did Trump order CDC to ignore China's test kits and develop their own?
That would explain the deadly lag in adequate testing in the U.S. which is far behind the rest of the world
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(And that, if known, would surely hurt him at the voting booth.)
I've kept thinking that there had to be a definite act by Trump that led to the lag in testing. I considered many possibilities and have trotted them out here at DU: Perhaps he thought, less testing = less cases = better stock market and better chance for re-election? Or, perhaps he simply ignored his experts and believed we could contain it without panicing anybody, including, of course, the stock-market and future voters?
It might still be one or both of these, but the sense that he would think "We're Americans; we'll build our own test kits! Plus, I don't want to give President Xi any leverage in future negotiations."
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