BOSTON GLOBE
Donald Trump chose market over lives
Due to a leadership failure US is now the hub of a global pandemic
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold,” wrote WB Yeats in 1919. A century later, it’s clear: the epicentre cannot hold. Catastrophic decisions in the White House have doomed the world’s richest country to a season of untold suffering.
The US, long a beacon of scientific progress and medical innovation with its world-class research institutions and hospitals, is now the hub of a global pandemic that has infected at least 745,000 people and already claimed more than 35,000 lives worldwide. Now that the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the US has surpassed that of any other nation, Americans are consigned for the coming weeks to watching the illness fell family members and friends, and to fearing for their own fate as they watch death tolls rise...
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