I don’t think the US has a poor covid response now, but lacked...

I don’t think the US has a poor covid response now, but lacked leadership and a nationally coordinated response in the early days. In fact, the Trump administration fired the US pandemic response team in 2018 to cut costs, so the nation was not as prepared to fight a pandemic as it could have been. // Those of you not prepared to take AZ could benefit from a regular influenza shot. According to New Scientist 3 April 2021, the records of 10,000 hospital employees in the Netherlands showed whether they had caught COVID and who had been given a flu shot in 2019 or early 2020. There was 39% less COVID in those who’d been vaccinated against influenza.