Obama: US not dealing with coronavirus as 'smartly' as other countries
Former President Obama said in remarks released Thursday that the U.S. is not dealing with the coronavirus pandemic as “smartly” as other countries with similar resources. The former president made the remarks during a conversation with presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, saying he was confident that if his former vice president is elected in November he will respond to the crisis effectively.
“You and I had experience dealing with health crises, public health crises, and in each instance what you and I understood, and why I have so much confidence that you're going to be able to deal with COVID in the way that other countries with our kinds of resources are dealing with it right now, which is smartly — I have confidence you're going to actually listen to the experts,” Obama told Biden. “And you're going to pay attention to the science, and you're not going to quit on trying to actually bend down the curve of disease and transmission rates," he said.
Obama has criticized the Trump administration's response to the pandemic in the past, describing it in a call with supporters earlier this year as a "disaster." Biden noted during the conversation with Obama that before leaving office, their administration set up a pandemic office within the White House with a goal of creating international cooperation to prepare for another potential outbreak.
In 2018, the Trump White House disbanded the National Security Council’s office overseeing responses to pandemics.
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I couldn't have been so diplomatic.
