Jonathan Alter: We Would’ve Had a ‘Testing Army’ If We Had the Right Kind of Presidential Leadership

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ALTER: “And I think our own history puts the lie to that. So in terms of getting people to do the contact tracing and the other testing that’s necessary, the antibody testing and Covid testing, we need a testing army, and frankly, Roosevelt, when we were in crisis during the depression, he wanted 250,000 young Americans, mobilized, in a civilian conservation court, he did it almost overnight in three months. We could have gotten a testing army that was something we could have accomplished if we had the right kind of presidential leadership.”