Kushner's axed coronavirus team shied away from a national strategy, believing the virus was hitting Democratic states hardest and they could blame the governors, report says

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• Some members of Jared Kushner's axed coronavirus task force believed the pandemic would affect Democratic areas worse, according to a Vanity Fair report, and may have adjusted their approach accordingly.
• During March and early April, Kushner gathered a team to devise a nationwide response to the pandemic. 
• A public health expert in regular contact with the team told the magazine that "the political folks" believed a nationwide response was a bad political move.
• At the time, the pandemic was worst in Democrat-voting states and cities. The source suggested some close to Kushner thought it was best to hold back and blame the results on local leaders.
• Kushner's plan was indeed dropped in favor of a mainly state-by-state response. Since then, cases have surged in states on both sides of the political divide. 
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Members of Jared Kushner's discontinued coronavirus task force considered a national-scale response early in the US coronavirus outbreak.

However, according to a new Vanity Fair report, the plan never came to be — partly because the task force believed that it would be a better political move to hold off.

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