By IRA STOLL, Special to the Sun | March 2, 2020
What will the coronavirus outbreak mean for the presidential race?
It could go at least two ways. The best-case scenario for President Trump is that the virus doesn’t spread widely within America. Mr. Trump could then claim credit for stopping it. The stock market would bounce back.
The episode could then draw public attention to the fact that for all of his critics’ efforts to depict him as somehow abnormal, Mr. Trump’s team is hardly a bunch of amateurs.
Vice President Pence is leading efforts against the virus. As governor of Indiana, Mr.Pence had helped stop an HIV outbreak by authorizing a needle exchange program. Mr.Trump’s director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, has advised six presidents and has been in his job since 1984.
Another key player in the fight against the coronavirus is Dr. Anne Schuchat, the principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control. She’s been at the CDC for more than 30 years. The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, is a graduate of Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the law journal. He clerked for Justice Scalia. Mr. Azar was a top executive at Eli Lilly, a pharmaceutical company that is based at Indiana...........Remember when we were all supposedly going to die in a “catastrophic” nuclear war because of the president’s “dangerous” and “irresponsible” rhetoric toward North Korea?...........To Read More......
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