There is plenty of blame to go around. Boris Johnson is clearly the wrong guy for the job right now, but testing is something that is driven by the health service, not politics. The CDC botched the test by not even following its own procedures after trying to re-invent the wheel on testing. This isn't something you can blame on Trump. The testing in the UK has been focused on the NHS to the exclusion of everything else, care homes are just starting to get a half-hearted attempt at testing. In Vietnam, according to the article you linked, they respond to a positive test by sending a team to the neighborhood to give cheap and plentiful tests, how does that compare to the UK? How well has testing been used to slow community spread of coronavirus? Testing like this is one of the conditions to ending the lockdown, well, at least it's a condition to not returning to lockdown quickly after exiting it.
I'm having a hard time thinking this is because the Vietnamese health authorities are better funded than those in the UK. While any different leadership in either the US or UK would likely have done better, I couldn't imagine a different leader wold have gotten the kind of responses are looking to be pretty standard in Asia.
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Date: 22/4/20 16:29 (UTC)I'm having a hard time thinking this is because the Vietnamese health authorities are better funded than those in the UK. While any different leadership in either the US or UK would likely have done better, I couldn't imagine a different leader wold have gotten the kind of responses are looking to be pretty standard in Asia.