Melinda Gates grades the Trump administration's coronavirus response

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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/melinda-gates-grades-the-trump-administrations-coronavirus-response-and-its-a-pretty-low-score-2020-05-08?mod=mw_more_headlines

Melinda Gates grades the Trump administration’s coronavirus response — and it’s a pretty low score

Published: May 8, 2020 at 11:14 a.m. ET

By Nicole Lyn Pesce

‘We need leadership at the national level,’ she says

Well … it’s technically a passing grade, right?

Melinda Gates, co-chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, gave the Trump administration a D-minus for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

“We need leadership at the national level,” Gates told Politico. She pinned her low marks on the country’s lack of a coordinated response for two months now.

“We have governors who are stepping up, luckily, but now we have 50 different homegrown state solutions instead of a national response.”

Gates, 55, cited Germany as an “exemplar” country that has testing and contact tracing down to a science. Germany’s COVID-19 case count as of Friday morning was 169,430, with 7,392 deaths. America’s case count was 1.26 million, the highest in the world for weeks now, with 75,670 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data.

If the U.S. followed Germany’s example, she said, “We would be testing, first, health care workers and then the most vulnerable, and you’d be doing contact tracing. And we would be able to start thinking about slowly, slowly reopening places in society in safe and healthy ways, but we have a lack of a coordinated effort.”

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1. She Must Have Graded On A Curve nt

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2. The voice of a reasonable and smart person.

Something we never get from Trump.

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3. D- was never a passing score for anywhere I went to school...

Still, she obviously "grades" on a curve.