"Science and medical expertise must guide them, not politics."
"Congress deserves great credit for acting with unprecedented speed in funding this response."
"Congress has to continue to do its own work on the coronavirus."
"Public officials at all levels of government need to take steps against discrimination."
"there is no reason why other countries--South Korea--are so far ahead of us, 100,000-plus tests in South Korea, less than 5,000 in the United States."
"I think that is a product of some bad decisions made at the CDC, and a lack of a real effort to accelerate testing around the country."
"I don't think they have been prepared for dealing with that, whether that is working with FEMA to temporarily ramp up capacity in those hospitals."
"I think, on the competence side, the Government has to provide the leadership and the funding to deliver this response."
"Five years ago I wrote a piece where I said that Congress should amend the Stafford Act to add epidemics as a disaster for the purpose of the Stafford Act."
"I think that we could have made a decision to adopt the testing protocols and kits used in other countries that have allowed them to ramp up very quickly."
"I think the decision to bring in private labs is a positive decision. It certainly increases the capacity, but that is only going to deal with people who are in a diagnostic or clinical setting."
"I think that some kind of White House coordinator was needed."