But they scrapped it because they thought blue states would get hit harder by COVID and they could therefore blame democrats.
We don’t have a national testing infrastructure establish as most other advanced countries do in part because the White House thought it would be easier to push it on the states and create a political wedge issue for them.
Members of Jared Kushner's coronavirus task force considered a national-scale testing plan early in the US's coronavirus outbreak.
However, according to a new Vanity Fair report, the plan never came to be, partly because the task force thought it would be better politically to hold off.
The logic, a source told Vanity Fair, was that the virus would hit Democratic-voting areas hardest and that the damage could be blamed on governors instead.
https://www.businessinsider.com/kushner-covid-19-plan-maybe-axed-for-political-reasons-report-2020-7
We don’t have a national testing infrastructure establish as most other advanced countries do in part because the White House thought it would be easier to push it on the states and create a political wedge issue for them.
Members of Jared Kushner's coronavirus task force considered a national-scale testing plan early in the US's coronavirus outbreak.
However, according to a new Vanity Fair report, the plan never came to be, partly because the task force thought it would be better politically to hold off.
The logic, a source told Vanity Fair, was that the virus would hit Democratic-voting areas hardest and that the damage could be blamed on governors instead.
https://www.businessinsider.com/kushner-covid-19-plan-maybe-axed-for-political-reasons-report-2020-7
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