Most of the attention of United States citizens and government has been on the domestic crisis. As the headline in a Washington Post editorial expresses it, “Trump Irresponsibly Abandons the WHO While the Pandemic Surges in Less Developed Nations.”
Sandro Galea, a Boston University epidemiologist, wrote a Washington Post op-ed piece a week earlier, urging action to avoid the viral epidemic becoming a poverty pandemic. He contends that “the long-term health costs of an economic depression could ultimately far eclipse what COVID-19 has wrought.”