Matthew Perrone

Health reporter for the Associated Press covering medicine, money, tobacco control, and public policy.

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Timeline: Early testing failures and Trump inaction crippled U.S. coronavirus response
March 25, 2020 By Michael Biesecker, Mike Stobbe And Matthew Perrone
“They took this as business as usual...the messaging from the White House was ‘this is not a big deal, this is no worse than the flu.’" By then, it was too late.
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