Speaking at the TIME 100 Summit in NYC this week, Bill Gates said that COVID-19 was allowed to spread “unchecked” around the United States during the early stages of the pandemic thanks to the Trump administration.
The Microsoft co-founder turned philanthropist, has been an outspoken critic of Trump and his handling of the novel virus, citing the lack of diagnostic testing by the U.S. under Trump.
“If we had done one thing well, which is scale up our ability to do diagnostics and then enforce quarantines around those diagnostics, then the United States would be more like Australia that’s had 10 percent of the deaths or Taiwan that’s had 3 percent of the deaths that we’ve had,” Gates added.
Read it and weep.