Just as in the old folk calendars there are years with strange names such as the year of locusts or termites, the name that befits 2020 is the year of the Corona. This epidemic that suddenly invaded humanity, striking all agendas without exception, and throughout the world as a whole, from small and poor countries to the great empires with armies and trillion economies. Everyone is equal in a state of powerlessness in front of this virus, in which mankind is still unable to determine its organic origin, nor the effective means to get rid of it. Until the first vaccines appeared, the damage done to the most important global power, the United States, seemed greater than it was in the case of any other country. Despite the tremendous scientific progress, America was not the first to discover anti-virus vaccines, and Germany preceded it, which produced the Pfizer-Biotec vaccine, which is at the forefront of global vaccines, while the American Moderna vaccine still did not know its way into widespread marketing at the level of the United States and the world. .
It is ironic here that this virus has entered the core of American life, as it has not happened in any other country, and has reached to play the main role in the loss of President Donald Trump in the presidential elections. After Trump was counting on his distinguished economic performance, his failure to manage the virus crisis came from the moment it appeared, to miss the opportunity to win a second term. The problem does not stop at Trump's performance in facing the pandemic, but goes beyond it to the US president's view of the health issue, as it is a fundamental issue whose progress depends on the state’s advancement, such as defense affairs that cannot be privatized and entrusted to private companies. It is worth stopping here at Trump's stance on the health care system established by former President Barack Obama in 2010, and its aim was to provide health insurance to every American at low costs, as in France. The first thing that the current US president did is that he led a battle in Congress to abolish this system known as "Obama Care."
Added to this is Trump's lack of seriousness in facing the Corona epidemic. From the start, his attitudes and reactions were indifferent, and he set a poor example of precautionary measures, such as not wearing a muzzle. This reckless attitude was circulated by a team of his aides and advisors, and the simplistic view led to the spread of behavior in some of the regions that contributed to the spread of the epidemic on a large scale. Hence, the high numbers of injuries and deaths in the United States are not coincidence or poor planning, but rather a matter related, in the first place, to the health system, and the state's relationship with this system, which has been found to be suffering from major structural problems, and this is not a secret, rather it is almost an issue. The basic around which the election campaigns revolve. It is known that the high rate of deaths in America was among the poor, who did not enjoy a fair health system, and therefore lived with chronic diseases, with high treatment costs, and this group is the most affected by the virus.
Trump's defeat is not the only result of the Corona crisis, but the virus poses great challenges to America, related to rebuilding the American health system, which has been severely penetrated by Corona. It is clear that the next administration has picked up the message, and one of the most important reasons for its success depends on working with it quickly, in order to defeat the epidemic and restore what was lost from America's prestige.