Why wasn't the U.S.?
Don't believe what trump said he's a republican who's trying to mislead you away from the real cause that this pandemic has gotten so far out of control and he tries to make you believe that it's not controllable. Although it is true that we cannot stop it, and the virus itself is not Trump's fault, we can slow it down so that it gives our healthcare professionals time to manage the patients. The reason it got so out of control was Trump's sat on this after he was told it was a very serious virus for two months. Then he kept saying it was nothing but a simple flu, the man is indirectly and directly responsible for the huge numbers of people getting infected who would otherwise not get infected had he introduced the quarantine early on like he was advised to do. And,,,, he is also indirectly responsible because way back before this happened he disbanded the Pandemic Department of the United States. Then he compound that problem when he had the requirement to buy healthcare insurance removed, which meant that not as many people bought healthcare insurance, which meant that the price for coverage became so high that most people could not afford to buy the healthcare insurance. These uninsured people who do get sick are not going to be able to the hospital for health care because I they cannot pay for it. We have the first case of 17 year old who was turned away from a hospital because he did not have healthcare insurance and he later died from it. So the reason that this pandemic has gotten so out of control is because our self proclaimed handsome and very stable genius, old donnie demento with his fat belly and his awful comb-over did not do anything about it when he was informed that it was very dangerous. He is sort of like a person driving a car without insurance thinking that he will never get into an accident, or a tree will never fall onto his car. Well, a tree fell on his car, and not only did it crush the roof, it landed smack dab in his lap.