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'I don't take responsibility': Trump says he's not to blame for persistent delays in coronavirus tes

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President Donald Trump declined to take responsibility for shortages in tests for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19 in a Friday news conference at the White House.

As the coronavirus outbreak spread worldwide, the United States was far slower to produce test kits than other countries.
In the news conference, a reporter asked Trump if he took "responsibility" for the shortage, and when he could guarantee that there'd be enough tests for Americans.
"Yeah, I don't take responsibility at all because we were given a set of circumstances and we were given rules, regulations, and specifications from a different time," Trump replied.
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Former President Harry Truman had a plaque on this desk which said 'The Buck Stops Here.' He had a rough presidency: the first Soviet A-bomb, the Korean war, etc. But he took responsibility. The Dems are going to have a field day taking Trump's words & using them in political ads.
 
According to today's BBC news, more tests have been done in British Columbia (only one Canadian province) than all the U.S.
 
JacksinPA said:
President Donald Trump declined to take responsibility for shortages in tests for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19 in a Friday news conference at the White House.

As the coronavirus outbreak spread worldwide, the United States was far slower to produce test kits than other countries.
In the news conference, a reporter asked Trump if he took "responsibility" for the shortage, and when he could guarantee that there'd be enough tests for Americans.
"Yeah, I don't take responsibility at all because we were given a set of circumstances and we were given rules, regulations, and specifications from a different time," Trump replied.
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Former President Harry Truman had a plaque on this desk which said 'The Buck Stops Here.' He had a rough presidency: the first Soviet A-bomb, the Korean war, etc. But he took responsibility. The Dems are going to have a field day taking Trump's words & using them in political ads.
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S. Korea should be the model, they've done 120,000 tests with a population of 51 million people. The U.S. has a population of 350 million people and we've done 16,000 tests total since the beginning of the epidemic. What you test for is how you do social distancing with the least amount of disruption. We're way behind on all of this.

According to Dr. Aaron Carroll of the Indiana Univ. School of Medicine, the US originally turned down the opportunity to make use of a test that was developed by the WHO and we were slow at taking some of the tests that some universities were doing. We're just way behind. To add The slowness in our response in part has been due to the fact that the Global Pandemic Group was dismanteled long ago by John Bolton at the NSC.
 
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