What makes this really ugly right now is that the New York Times thinks that the coronavirus pandemic is going to get Trump voted out of office, and their need to push hard on the idea that it's all his fault has really done a number on their reporting about the biggest crisis facing the world. Especially once it turned out all that the success story countries they pointed to as proof America could've done better if not for Trump weren't succeeding after all, and once America went from having a terrible testing program to one of the best to no avail despite the supposed vital importance of testing playing a huge part in their blame-Trump narrative.
> America went from having a terrible testing program to one of the best
Any sources on nCoV-2 testing program in the US? Genuinely curious, social media (that I can see from inside my bubble) is mostly buzzing with how bad things are all around, but then people rarely take the time to voice positive changes.
You can get a very rough idea of how countries are doing by looking at the tests per capita figures here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ (click to sort). Obviously this isn't the only aspect that matters, but it's going to be hard to get a more detailed view that doesn't just tell you whatever country you're in sucks compared to everyone else. The major countries with widespread coronavirus testing on there are - in order - the UK, Russia, the US, Spain and Australia, and I can tell you that our press here in the UK has been pushing almost as hard on the narrative that we're falling behind the rest of the world in testing for coronavirus as the US media.
Naturally, publications like the New York Times have carefully worked to leave their readers with a much worse impression of where the US falls on this specific ranking than reality.
