Editorial Board
Lame-Duck White House Must Help Control Covid Surge
The president may have given up fighting the coronavirus, but others in his administration can and must act.
Lining up for Covid-19 tests again.
Photographer: David McNew/Getty ImagesLittle more than a week before Thanksgiving, Covid-19 is once again surging out of control. Infections in the U.S. are proliferating so quickly — 1 million were recorded in the past week — that as many as 35,000 Americans could die before the month is out.
It’s a public-health crisis of stunning proportions, yet the White House is largely ignoring it. President Donald Trump is focused on pointless legal challenges to the election results, and whether to run again in 2024. It’s little consolation that even if he were more engaged, he’d probably do more harm than good.