U.S. coronavirus crisis "failure of democracy": Obama's former speechwriter
WASHINGTON, May 23 (Xinhua) -- David Litt, a former speechwriter for then U.S. President Barack Obama, has said the spread of COVID-19 which has so far claimed nearly 100,000 lives in the United States is a failure of democracy at the root.
"It's become commonplace to refer to COVID-19 as 'the worst public health crisis of our lifetimes.' But what has cost the United States so many lives and jobs during the pandemic is not, at root, a failure of public health. It's a failure of democracy," Litt wrote in an article published by Time magazine this week.