After a week in which more than 10,000 Americans died from COVID-19, the US media and political establishment have launched a concerted effort to get workers back to work, even as the pandemic continues to spread and kill in the United States and internationally.This effort is being spearheaded above all by the Trump administration. During the most recent coronavirus task force media briefing, Trump claimed that country as a whole is “doing really well” and “doing much better than we thought it would.”Task force coordinator Deborah Birx said the White House was “ensuring that everybody gets...…After a week in which more than 10,000 Americans died from COVID-19, the US media and political establishment have launched a concerted effort to get workers back to work, even as the pandemic continues to spread and kill in the United States and internationally.This effort is being spearheaded above all by the Trump administration. During the most recent coronavirus task force media briefing, Trump claimed that country as a whole is “doing really well” and “doing much better than we thought it would.”Task force coordinator Deborah Birx said the White House was “ensuring that everybody gets...WW…

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would suspend funding to the World Health Organization, the most important global institution in the fight against COVID-19 and other communicable diseases.Trump’s action is a transparent effort to deflect attention from his own administration’s failures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic by blaming external enemies: China and the United Nations’ health care arm. The pandemic has now infected more than two million people and claimed more than 134,000 lives worldwide, including 644,000 cases and more than 28,500 deaths in the...…On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would suspend funding to the World Health Organization, the most important global institution in the fight against COVID-19 and other communicable diseases.Trump’s action is a transparent effort to deflect attention from his own administration’s failures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic by blaming external enemies: China and the United Nations’ health care arm. The pandemic has now infected more than two million people and claimed more than 134,000 lives worldwide, including 644,000 cases and more than 28,500 deaths in the...WW…