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Health official says US missed some chances to slow virus

by AP Medical Writer
| May 2, 2020 12:03 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. government was slow to understand how much coronavirus was spreading from Europe, which helped drive the acceleration of outbreaks across the nation, a top health official said Friday.

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