I agree with your evaluation, however, the failure of a managed U.S. response to C19 was self-inflicted by the Trump administration. One of the first actions of the Trump administration was to dismantle the pandemic response system, hobble the CDC, and evict the FDA from Washington, DC., which rendered the U.S. defenseless against a pandemic. The failure was/is augmented by the Trump administration's denial of C19 and related data.