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A lack of preparation, deep-rooted dysfunction and a reckless president – now the US faces being the center of the pandemic Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Donald Trump with Mike Pence, the leader of Trump’s coronavirus taskforce. More than 46,000 people in the US have been diagnosed with Covid-19 and nearly […] More
Trump tweets White House will ‘make a decision’ after 15-day period ends as Senate Democrats block relief package Coronavirus – latest updates worldwide See all our coronavirus coverage Donald Trump has signalled a potential change in his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, amid warnings of a record plunge in economic activity and unemployment potentially hitting […] More
Critics flagged up his anti-science background and questionable record as governor but the vice-president has won praise as the Covid-19 taskforce head See all our coronavirus coverage His past record made him seem an odd choice. He remains as servile to Donald Trump as ever. But Mike Pence, the US vice-president, is said to be […] More
All travel between the United States and the UK and Ireland will be suspended from midnight EST on Monday. Vice-president Mike Pence announced the new measure at a coronavirus task force news briefing on Saturday. A top medical official Anthony Fauci said the move could change the course of coronavirus’s spread across the country, which […] More
Officials say 4m tests will be made available each week but decline to estimate how many Americans have been tested thus far Warning that the number of coronavirus cases in the United States was expected to grow, the Trump administration on Monday said that testing for the virus would ramp up quickly in the coming […] More
Austin, Indiana, was the site of a 2015 outbreak that infected more than 200 people – and critics of Pence’s coronavirus role say he botched the response Dozens of residents filtered past a syringe disposal box in a parking lot as they headed to the free weekly meal at the Church of the New Covenant […] More
Both Donald Trump and Mike Pence were at the conservative conference but did not have contact with attendee, organization says Live: coronavirus latest Donald Trump has said he isn’t concerned at all about the coronavirus getting closer to the White House after it was revealed that an attendee at grassroots conservative conference CPAC had tested […] More
Putting Mike Pence in charge is proof that the White House wants to protect its political line, not protect Americans To effectively contain an outbreak, government decisions must be based on saving lives, not scoring political points. Last week, the White House announced that the vice-president, Mike Pence, will lead the coronavirus task force. The […] More
