With more than 530,000 patients and already nearly 21,000 dead, the United States has taken the lead in countries affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Impressive figures even if Europe, on a continental scale, is no better. In New York, the first center of infection, mass excavators are dug to dig in a hurry to bury those whose bodies no one has claimed. America falters in shock, but the first effects of containment offer a ray of hope: alarmist forecasts are now revised downwards - from 200,000 dead to "only" 60,000.
For Donald Trump, such a record would provide proof that he did "a good job . " Every day, for one or two hours of often surreal television live, the American president appears sovereign at the helm of the ship. Everything goes through him, from the distribution of aid to scientific advice. Even under the coronavirus test, Trumpism remains a pugil: the imperious occupant of the Oval Office dismisses the opponents,
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