What do young voters think of Trump's COVID response?
We asked for opinions from students on social media on how they think the Trump administration handled the pandemic.
In the wake of President Trump’s recent COVID-19 diagnosis, discussion of his administration’s response to the pandemic has only amplified. We sent out a survey on Facebook and Twitter this week asking young voters: What about the Trump administration's handling of the pandemic stands out to you?
Here’s a sampling of what college students had to say:
“The inaction/ hesitancy to call a national emergency in an attempt to keep the economy going for just a little bit longer. Also, denouncing the virus as a hoax, but simultaneously using it as a political weapon against his opposition.”
“He took early action to cut off travel from China and enacted mitigation measures to slow the spread. He also expedited resources to hot spot locations in the U.S. and confronted China about them starting the virus.”
“The constant denial and pushing off of social distancing and ‘disease limiting’ practices at the expense of millions of cases and thousands of deaths.”
“The rapid closure of travel to foreign countries with massive amounts of COVID positive tests.”
“The lack of action taken was appalling. He likes to claim that he couldn’t have seen this coming even though we watched it hit so many countries before ours. We’re still losing lives daily because his attitude towards the pandemic has prompted others to not take it seriously.”
“They acted quickly and immediately launched an effort for a vaccine. He also made it a priority to reopen the country safely.”
Here are the COVID-19 numbers for UConn, and Connecticut overall.