Azar and Mulvaney were both in bad places with Trump, making them weak messengers. The information from China wasn& #39;t complete. Mnuchin and Kudow were focused on the Phase One deal with China. The president was focused on impeachment and his own survival. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-response.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/1...
Some of our other coverage of the handling of the coronavirus included this piece about Kushner, who West Wing advisers say had shared Trump& #39;s view that media was hyping the virus to hurt Trump before putting himself in the middle of the response in March https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/us/politics/jared-kushner-coronavirus-trump.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/0...
This piece by @noahweiland and me on efforts to use Oracle to track chloroquine uses https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/us/politics/trump-oracle-coronavirus-chloroquine.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/2...
This tour de force by @shearm @BySheilaKaplan @abbygoodnough @noahweiland @sherifink and Katie Thomas on the lost month in the effort to create a functional coronavirus test https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/us/testing-coronavirus-pandemic.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/2...
The deal that was almost announced and then dropped for ventilator production, prompting the president to use the DPA in response to our coverage https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/us/politics/coronavirus-ventilators-trump.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/2...
And this piece on the administration, the DPA and 3M https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-3m-masks.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/0...
Pence has gotten criticism for how the task force ran once he took it over. But White House aides say he was able to get through to the president in March about the seriousness of the moment in a way Azar had not been able to https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-response.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/1...