| "Declare victory and move on" can be a useful mantra when a crisis has concluded, for better or for worse, and it's time to confront new challenges. White House senior adviser Jared Kushner tried to take that approach in a recent interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, where he defended a response that's left the U.S. with about a quarter of the world's coronavirus deaths. "We're making great progress," the presidential son-in-law told Blitzer, citing vaccine development, identification of drugs like remdesivir and a falling case-fatality rate. "We've done our best."  Jared Kushner, senior White House adviser Photographer: Oliver Contreras/Sipa But it's a failure to acknowledge the many opportunities the Trump administration missed over the past eight months since the disease emerged. Looser, shorter curbs on movement and interaction factored into the pandemic's U.S. expansion, according to Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease specialist. Spain and Italy, for example, gained control over the virus after long periods when trips to parks, public spaces, grocery stores and pharmacies were curtailed, he told a meeting of the American Society for Microbiology on Monday. Meanwhile, lower levels of public activity ultimately made Europe safer. Likewise, U.S. workplaces never shuttered as fully as they did in Italy and Spain, said Fauci. "They shut down dramatically; we did not." Overall, the U.S approach is one of the reasons why cases shot up as high as 70,000 a day after the lockdowns, while those in Europe tumbled, he said. Even Deborah Birx, the White House's coronavirus response coordinator, now says the U.S. should have closed down longer and deeper. "I wish that when we went into lockdown, we looked like Italy," she told reporters this week. Some European countries, including Spain, are starting to see small resurgences in coronavirus. Those pockets still don't approach the tens of thousands of daily cases that have become routine in the U.S. Most other societies are wearing masks and continuing to social-distance without much fuss. In the U.S., face coverings have become a political badge, one that has its origins in Trump's original spurning of them, and his initial reassurance that wearing one is up to individual choice. Since then, local governments and industries that insist on mask use have encountered resistance, without much backup from the administration. None of these—the dissension, the denialism and, most of all, the 170,000 U.S. deaths—are the characteristics of a success story. They're a case study that cries out for reform. We can't declare victory when the coronavirus is still winning on the field.—John Lauerman | 
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