Covid-19: US needs a national plan to fight rising infections, experts say.

Abstract

Three scientific organisations have proposed plans for the US to gain control of the pandemic as a leading Democrat declared that it was a “public health catastrophe” with more infections and deaths than any other country, South Carolina Democrat James Clyburn, chairman of the House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, said at a committee hearing on 31 July that President Donald Trump had downplayed the urgency of the pandemic and deferred responsibility to individual states. Clyburn said that the US urgently needed a national plan to contain the virus. An article in Vanity Fair reported that the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, had a secret project to set up a national system of oversight and coordination to provide supplies, test kits, and establish a surveillance programme. It claimed that the plan was dropped because the virus hit Democrat states hardest, rather …