A plan to defeat coronavirus finally emerges, but it's not from the White House

[underpants]

A national plan to fight the coronavirus pandemic in the United States and return Americans to jobs and classrooms is emerging — but not from the White House.

Instead, a collection of governors, former government officials, disease specialists and nonprofits are pursuing a strategy that relies on the three pillars of disease control: Ramp up testing to identify people who are infected. Find everyone they interact with by deploying contact tracing on a scale America has never attempted before. And focus restrictions more narrowly on the infected and their contacts so the rest of society doesn’t have to stay in permanent lockdown.

But there is no evidence yet the White House will pursue such a strategy.

Instead, the president and his top advisers have fixated almost exclusively on plans to reopen the U.S. economy by the end of the month, though they haven’t detailed how they will do so without triggering another outbreak. President Trump has been especially focused on creating a second coronavirus task force aimed at combating the economic ramifications of the virus.

Administration officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe internal deliberations, say the White House has made a deliberate political calculation that it will better serve Trump’s interest to put the onus on governors — rather than the federal government — to figure out how to move ahead.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/10/contact-tracing-coronavirus-strategy/

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

1. Basically somebody knows what they're doing.

But they don't work for Trump.

[crickets]

2. Onus is another way of saying responsibility and funding. nt

[Alex4Martinez]

3. Let others fix it, then take full credit for it.

This is what's playing out as we watch.