The Trump administration's response to global outbreaks of the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19 has been riven by missteps.
As well as problems developing and distributing a test for the infection, there have been discordant public messages, with some fearing that the president's assertions the virus is contained may be proved wrong.
An initial test for the virus developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was plagued by technical problems and has been in short supply.