From just a handful of cases a few weeks ago, the Covid-19 outbreak in the US has ballooned to over a thousand cases nationwide. The Trump administration’s public response has ranged from incoherent to incomprehensible: denialism about the scale of the problem, failure to test in sufficient numbers, a reluctance to take coordinated, large-scale government action. It’s also raised questions about the US healthcare system’s capacity to respond effectively to a health crisis on this scale. Columbia professor and economist Jeffrey Sachs joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss American capitalism’s failure to deal effectively with the coronavirus.
Transcript coming soon.
Deconstructed | Radio Free (2020-03-12T09:18:37+00:00) Capitalism Versus The Coronavirus. Retrieved from https://www.radiofree.org/2020/03/12/capitalism-versus-the-coronavirus/
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