AP Interview: Clyburn warns US lacks plan to stop virus
Associated PressRep. James Clyburn said Wednesday the COVID-19 crisis is “much, much worse” than the 2008 Great Recession because the U.S. is without a national strategy to contain the coronavirus. “We’ve got a health care crisis wrapped into an economic crisis, and they are so interwoven,” Clyburn said. “You can’t solve the economic crisis without solving the health care crisis, and the problem we’ve got is that we do not have a national plan to deal with this virus.” Clyburn said, “That’s not the way you run a national government.” As the virus crisis scrambles the summer political conventions, Clyburn said he won’t be attending the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee, which officials said Wednesday will be almost entirely virtual. Clyburn said he hopes Biden will consider naming a Black woman as the vice presidential pick, but it’s not a “must.” “The only real must is to win the election,” he said.
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