Letter: It’s all out of order
(Ted S. Warren | AP) Vice President Mike Pence, second from right, tours the Washington State Emergency Operations Center, Thursday, March 5, 2020 at Camp Murray in Washington state.
It is reported that officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — who, according to President Trump, are “the best in the world at what they do” — now must have any statement about the coronavirus filtered through and approved by the administration’s task force, chaired by Vice President Mike Pence. In a rational, sane world, wouldn’t this arrangement be the reverse?
Ira Rubinfeld, Salt Lake City
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