The US has abdicated world leadership

The US — usually at the head of the table helping to coordinate in global crises — has declined to take a seat at virtual international meetings convened by the World Health Organization and the EU to coordinate work on potentially lifesaving vaccines https://t.co/2a3f0Kw53C

— CNN (@CNN) May 9, 2020

"A country that turned out eight combat aircraft every hour at the peak of World War II could not even produce enough 75-cent masks or simple cotton nasal swabs for testing in this pandemic." https://t.co/1ldzV1Ve1A

— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) May 9, 2020

.@SteveSchmidtSES: "There has never been a moment — not under a Democratic president, not under a Republican president — in our lifetimes or in the last 75 years where the United States has appeared weaker to the rest of the world than it does now."https://t.co/khibG6FFPB

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) May 12, 2020