US response to the virus is met with incredulity abroad
(WorldNews Germany)

ROME (AP) — The United States` failure to contain the spread of the coronavirus has been met with astonishment and alarm in Europe, as the world`s most powerful country edges closer to a global record of 5 million confirmed infections. Perhaps nowhere outside the U.S. is America`s bungled virus response viewed with more consternation than in Italy, which was ground zero of Europe’s epidemic. Italians were unprepared when the outbreak exploded in February and the country still has one of the world`s highest official death tolls at 35,000. But after a strict nationwide 10-week lockdown, vigilant tracing of new clusters and general acceptance of mask mandates and social distancing, Italy...