Stevenson’s army, March 30

– Pres. Trump said yesterday he hopes the country can be “back to normal” by June. British health officials said social distancing could be needed until September. Meanwhile AEI & Hopkins experts have a phased, conditions-based plan for dealing with the pandemic that looks reasonable. Here’s the actual document. What it requires is work every day to restore and expand health services to monitor the disease.
– WSJ says companies need federal guidance in allocating medical supplies.
– Army Corps of Engineers is looking at convention centers as temporary hospitals.
– NYT says China’s epidemic monitoring system failed because of political tampering by officials who didn’t want to send bad news to Beijing.
– NYT reports on France’s forever war in the Sahel.
– WaPo’s Jackson Diehl says Pompeo is doing a terrible job .

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