The ride appears to be far from over
Just 11 months ago, President Trump informed the nation late at night that he and his wife had contracted COVID-19. He would later be hospitalized.
The political drama, weeks before the 2020 presidential election, dovetailed with the catastrophe of the global pandemic. There’s obviously no good time to contract Covid, but the timing was particularly disastrous for Trump. Right after the presidential debate, in which Trump tried to energize his base with an aggressive performance, he found himself in the hospital. Trump ended up recovering quickly and returned to the campaign trail days later, but the drama shifted public attention to the administration’s handling of the pandemic, away from the president’s preferred focus on immigration, the economy, the Supreme Court, and his string of foreign policy successes — notably the Abraham Accords between Israel and four majority Muslim countries.
Since then we’ve experienced many more twists and turns, and the ride appears to be far from over.
Covid vaccines received emergency FDA authorization, and half the US population was inoculated in a lightning campaign, dramatically cutting infection rates by early summer. Cases fell from 300,000 a day on January 8 to just 4,000 on June 20. America started going back to work, and unemployment was on the wane.
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