Some governors have been leading the way. Others, not so much.; The Washington Post, March 20, 2020

Editorial Board, The Washington Post; Some governors have been leading the way. Others, not so much.

"WHEN NEW YORK and Oregon sent urgent appeals to the federal government for N95 masks, which protect against coronavirus, days passed this month before they finally received shipments — of devices well past their expiration date and therefore useless for surgery and other acute-care settings. That drove home the increasingly clear point that the burden is on states to compensate for the federal government’s sluggish response to the gravest public health crisis in a century.

Some governors have been quick to take that lesson and run with it; others much less so."