Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich is discussing how Trump is selling out Americans’ health to boost his election chances and give his GOP donors short-term stock gains. 2,909 Americans died from the virus on Thursday, the highest single day total since the pandemic began. Only 6.5 million of 200 million adult Americans have been tested.
Any rush to reopen without adequate testing and tracing – far more than now under way – will cause a resurgence of the disease and another, longer economic crisis. Trump couldn’t care less.