WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday reversed course on plans to wind down his COVID-19 task force, attempting to balance his enthusiasm for “reopening” the country with rising infection rates in parts of the nation.
The task force controversy was emblematic of an administration — and a country — struggling with competing priorities of averting more death and more economic suffering.
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