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US President Donald Trump’s administration has lost its half-hearted struggle with COVID-19. The US federal government never took the kinds of steps other countries were prepared to take. On Tuesday, President Trump delivered his words during a press conference in the Rose Garden and said, “Things are coming back, and they’re coming back very rapidly, a lot sooner than people thought. People are feeling good about our country. People are feeling good about therapeutics and possible vaccines”. But, he has never talked about contact tracing, which the leaders of other Western countries used to help pare their confirmed Covid-19 cases. He has vowed the United States will not shut down again, even though that’s up to governors and not him.

US Vice President Mike Pence was sure to rhetorically bathe him in the kind of praise he so craves on Wednesday during a coronavirus-themed visit to hard-hit Louisiana. He delivered his words at Louisiana State University and said, “This is a serious time with rising cases across Louisiana and all across the Sun Belt. But as all of you know, because of your efforts, because of the unprecedented national response marshaled by our president, because of the seamless partnership with your governor, and because of the extraordinary support that we’ve received from members of Congress, we have more resources today to deal with this pandemic than ever before”.

Point to be noted that COVID-19 has infected more than 3.5 million Americans in the United States and killed more than 137,000 people. Pence said, “PPE has been made available in the hundreds of millions of supplies. Therapeutics, like remdesivirus continues to be distributed to states including Louisiana. And I’m proud to report that we’re moving forward aggressively, at warp speed, on the development of a vaccine”. It is noteworthy that more than 30 million people have filed for unemployment benefits since the pandemic forced Trump and governors to close it down. The US economy showed signs of bouncing back after states opened with the unemployment rate shrinking from nearly 15% to around 11%.