Reported in Trump uses misleading numbers to praise his administration’s virus response. (The New York Times, 5/12/2020).
According to Worldometer (5/12/2020), the U.S. ranks 40th in testing per million among the countries of the world.
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U.S. Leads the World’s Virus Fight? That’s News to the World. (The New York Times, 5/8/2020)
Yet humanitarian workers have reported that only a fraction of the American aid has reached frontline responders overseas who are trying to stem the virus. And the funding alone has not quieted a growing unease among foreign allies that the United States will disengage from a united approach to treat and cure the pandemic.
The concern is that Washington will back away from a global response and try to shape foreign policy by decree — similar to how critics describe the Trump administration’s posture toward the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate accords.
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