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Goldberg: Jared Kushner is going to get us all killed (NYT)

Trump’s son-in-law has no business running the coronavirus response.

Reporting on the White House’s herky-jerky coronavirus response, Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman has a quotation from Jared Kushner that should make all Americans, and particularly all New Yorkers, dizzy with terror.

According to Sherman, when New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, said that the state would need 30,000 ventilators at the apex of the coronavirus outbreak, Kushner decided that Cuomo was being alarmist. “I have all this data about I.C.U. capacity,” Kushner reportedly said. “I’m doing my own projections, and I’ve gotten a lot smarter about this. New York doesn’t need all the ventilators.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top expert on infectious diseases, has said he trusts Cuomo’s estimate

To read the entire article by Michelle Goldberg from The New York Times: , click https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/opinion/jared-kushner-coronavirus.html?algo=top_conversion&fellback=false&imp_id=562605154&imp_id=632594630&action=click&module=trending&pgtype=Article&region=Footer