Despite claims by the mainstream media and the Democratic
Party that the United States was "ill-prepared" to handle the
coronavirus pandemic and that actions by Trump administration made us
vulnerable, the United States was actually ranked the best-prepared country in the world
to handle a pandemic in a study by Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (JHCHS) published in late 2019.
The United States' Global Health Security Index score was 83.5/100, the
highest overall score of 195 countries. The United Kingdom came in second with
a score of 77.9. Italy, which has experienced significant difficulties in
handling the outbreak in their country, scored 56.2. Iran, which is also
struggling to handle the pandemic, scored 37.7.
The Trump administration has been the target of a
significant amount of misinformation
being disseminated by the Democrats and the mainstream media designed to
undermine confidence in the administration's handling of the pandemic,
including false reports that Trump "dissolved" the White House
pandemic response office and that Trump cut funding to the CDC and NIH.
Despite these false reports, Trump's approval ratings
have improved in the past few weeks, and his response to the pandemic has
the approval of 60 percent of Americans, according to the latest Gallup poll.
The Global Health Security index "was developed with
guidance from an international panel of experts from 13 countries, with
research by the Economist Intelligence Unit. More than 100 researchers spent a
year collecting and validating publicly available data," the Washington
Post reported last year.
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Matt Margolis is the author of Trumping Obama: How President
Trump Saved Us From Barack Obama's Legacy and the bestselling
book The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama.
You can follow Matt on Twitter @MattMargolis
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The Top 10 Lies About President Trump’s
Response to the Coronavirus
BY MATT MARGOLIS
| P J MEDIA
President Donald Trump speaks during a press
briefing with the coronavirus task force, at the White House, Tuesday, March
17, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
It’s troubling to see how quickly disinformation about
the government’s response to the coronavirus has spread. Democrats and the
mainstream media have willingly spread false information in the hopes of
damaging Trump politically before the election in November. Many of these lies
were quickly debunked, but that hasn’t stopped the false information from being
repeated over and over.
The left hopes these lies will continue to
spread, but so far it doesn’t seem to be working since Trump’s
approval numbers for his handling of the pandemic have gone up.
But that
doesn’t mean the left will give up their disinformation campaign. To help set
the record straight, I’ve compiled the top ten lies that have been spread about
Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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