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Practice good respiratory hygiene, such as coughing or sneezing into your bent elbow or a tissue. Then, quickly dispose of the used tissue.
And last but not least, self-isolation which means to stay at home whenever you start to feel unwell, even with mild symptoms such as
headache, this is to avoid contact with the public and also not to overwhelm hospitals so that they can effectively help and protect people with
severe symptoms. The Trump administration declare public health emergency in January and several federal agencies have been involved in
the U.S. response to the outbreak. As the federal government leads the national response to pandemic, state and local health departments
happens to be on the front lines. United States has recorded more 1million cases nationwide and more than 50000 deaths due to this
pandemic. The high number in cases and deaths shows the poor response of federal government and state government to the pandemic. I
can’t but think of the lives that might have been saved, had it been United States responded the way other countries like South Korea, did.
America recorded the first case of COVID 19 in January, it was not until about 40 days after that major actions were taken by the government.
It was then various rules and regulations were put in place to encourage social distancing. Regulations like closing schools, businesses,
parks, churches, etc. before then the U.S. government only banned foreigners from entering from China when the outbreak of the virus started
in Wuhan in December but did not effectively monitor Americans returning from the country. One of the flaws of government’s response to the
virus outbreak was the absence of national regulations which allowed Americans to move freely from state to state, thereby spreading the
virus. Even though many States and localities ordered businesses, schools, workplaces and also reduce the number of people that can gather
in public. But the measures were not effective because it was not uniform throughout the country due to the absence of national order, such
and Americans can still travel from one area to another, potentially carrying COVID 19 from hot zones such as New York and Seattle to low
risk areas. I think the high number cases, deaths and economic damage due to this pandemic could have been avoided or reduced its effect if
government had done early testing. And this is due to the fact that Federal government did not relaxed its rules and regulatories early
concerning laboratories that can do testing. So for weeks, states and local laboratories could not test enough people for the virus. Because
without testing, there is no way to know the severity of the outbreak. Above all, the root of the cause of poor response of U.S. government to
the pandemic is the system of government of United States which is known as Federalism. Federalism is the constitution’s way of of
distributing decision making authority. The Constitution gives the national government the power to carry out certain operations and the
remaining constitutional decisions are reserved for the states. This kind of system can help in the aspects of developing good schools,
universities and tax policy. While this is good it is not the best way to respond to a pandemic. The nation has the largest number of COVID-19
cases in the world and the numbers are increasing day by day. Many governors in their own capacity have been fighting this new virus in their
own states, including California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, Ohio’s governor, Mike DeWine, New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, and
Maryland’s governor, Larry Hogan. They have tried to contain the virus by acquiring protective gear for medical workers, purchasing
ventilators for patients and implementing strict social distancing policies to slow the spread of the virus. However, the virus is not invading one
state at a time. In as much as some state governors, mayors are pulling out their stunts to fight the virus, some states and localities are not
taking actions or their level of actions is very low. If some states or cities are too slow to contain the virus, that will affect others because the
virus will gain ground and eventually spread even to the places that have imposed controls. There are some crises can not be addressed on a
state by state basis. As this COVID 19 cases continue to increase across the world, it is clear that viruses don’t care about borders. The only
way to fight the virus is to implement a coordinated national response and it is only together that we4 would be able to start the healing
process. Truly, we should not blame Trump administration for our delayed response to the pandemic despite the flaws in his leadership but
our present constitutional system, limiting the power of federal over states. This means that congress and the president lack the constitutional
power to tell states what to do. Federal government can address national issues like defense, foreign policy and monetary policy while the
state retain the power to address the welfare of their citizens which includes setting health and education policy. However, the Trump
administration has used their authorities to take some actions in in response to the pandemic; the national government’s U.S. $2trillion bill is
directed at providing help to individuals and private entities. Also, the president, Trump, has offered military aids to states and also relaxed
rules that regulate government approval for coronavirus testing. He has also released guidelines and instructions for governments to use
when reopening state economies. Though, the constitution still allows that individual states have discretion whether to implement these
guidelines. In times of crisis like the coronavirus outbreak, there is a need for unified and national leadership response. The operations of the
federal government should be more extensive and more important. For this to happen there should be a need to revisit the constitution.

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Title: State Action on Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Ncsl
The Trump administration declared a public health emergency in January and several federal agencies have been involved in the U.S.
response to the outbreak.

https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/state-action-on-coronavirus-covid-19.aspx

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Title: Why There's No National Lockdown - The Atlantic
however, in the absence of a national-level order, such measures are not uniform across the whole country, and americans can still travel
from one area to another—potentially carrying covid-19 from “hot zones” such as new york and seattle to low-risk areas. contrast that with
china, once...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/why-theres-no-national-lockdown/609127/