The Obama Diary

Facts: The Obama administration tested 1 million people for H1N1 in the first month after the first US diagnosed case.

The first US #coronavirus case was 50+ days ago. And we haven't event tested 10,000 people yet. https://t.co/LxRH62NIDw

— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) March 13, 2020

Fact 2: While simultaneously dealing with the biggest financial crisis and recession of our lifetime

— Austan Goolsbee (@Austan_Goolsbee) March 13, 2020

If the @BarackObama Administration made testing harder how did we manage to test 1 million people within the first month of the H1N1 outbreak? Why did you dismantle the White House office @BarackObama created in NSC post Embola? Why did you cut funding to CDC? Come on! https://t.co/hH7v31DdYj

— Valerie Jarrett (@ValerieJarrett) March 13, 2020

My Q: You said you don’t take responsibility for slow response to coronavirus but your administration disbanded the White House office on pandemics?

President Trump: “That’s a nasty question...When you say me, I didn't do it. We have a group of people [in the administration].”

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) March 13, 2020