> I don't want to get into partisan politics, but the US central authorities weren't serious about the problem This was a problem in Germany as well. End of Ja

> I don't want to get into partisan politics, but the US central authorities weren't serious about the problem This was a problem in Germany as well. End of January, the German minister of health still said that Corona is not as bad as the yearly Influenza. > until relatively late in the process, and our testing ramp up was also very slow. Ramping up testing was also very slow in the beginning and highly chaotic.