Aside from Mr. Trump’s predictions — which are at odds with his medical advisers, who say the worst is yet to come — the president seemed to evince little awareness of the severity of the contagion.
Explaining why he did not include the United Kingdom in his initial travel ban from Europe last week, Mr. Trump said, “all of the sudden we were getting numbers that weren’t good, so we had to put U.K. in.”
Britain had nearly 500 coronavirus cases last week.
Ms. Lujan Grisham said the federal government was impeding the states’ ability to respond to the virus and was creating a situation where the states were competing against one another for the needed products.
And, she said, the governors are getting little clarity from the White House.
The governor requested a call back from Vice President Mike Pence, the point person on the administration’s response. And in an illustration that at least Mr. Pence, himself a former Indiana governor, is taking the complaints of the state leaders seriously, he telephoned Ms. Lujan Grisham immediately after the call ended, according to an aide to Ms. Lujan Grisham.
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