The coronavirus continues to take a grim toll on the city and state even while spreading at an alarming rate through parts of the nation that previously hadn't been much affected. Some of those states have belatedly imposed the kind of shelter-in-place orders that California and New York did a couple of weeks sooner.
Part of the problem has been a lack of decisive leadership from a President who never previously was thought of as a shrinking violet. Yet Donald Trump has moved hesitantly in using his full powers to order private industry to produce vital protective equipment for health-care workers and first-responders, and for too long has left it to individual states to decide when to order residents to obey a form of home confinement.
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