The New York Times editorial board called for the U.S. to be put a wartime footing to fight the coronavirus pandemic in an editorial published Tuesday.

The editorial ― titled “Stop Saying That Everything Is Under Control. It Isn’t.” — said tackling the crisis that’s sickened almost 200,000 people worldwide will “require a new, collective way of thinking about public health and society as a whole.”

It noted how President Franklin D. Roosevelt “compelled and inspired industries and individuals to rally for the greater good” during World War II and suggested that “something similar is called for today.”

“The United States is again faced with a crisis that calls for a national response, demanding a mobilization of resources that the free market or individual states cannot …continued .
[Source: Huffington Post]