Opin­ion: Con­gress needs to take a hard look at what went on at Trump's White House dur­ing the pan­dem­ic

Masks are com­ing off, restau­rants are fill­ing up again in­doors, and the US is, by all ac­counts, re­turn­ing to some sort of nor­mal-ish state.

But as the Covid-19 death toll slow­ly ticks up to the 600,000 mark, there’s a grow­ing con­sen­sus that at least some of those lives could’ve been saved. Where and how the past ad­min­is­tra­tion went wrong is easy to di­ag­nose as an arm­chair ex­pert, but Con­gress needs to be­gin what will like­ly be a gar­gan­tu­an and long process of ac­tu­al­ly sift­ing through the da­ta, in­ter­nal emails and de­ci­sion mak­ing to see what ex­act­ly hap­pened and what needs to be cor­rect­ed mov­ing for­ward.

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