5月8日消息，比尔·盖茨的妻子梅琳达·盖茨在接受采访时表示，给特朗普政府的应对疫情打分D-（勉强及格）。她表示，“我们需要国家一级的领导，我们国家整整错失了几乎两个月的反应时间。“现在的美国有“50个州各自不同的解决方案，而不是国家应对方案。”

梅林达的理由是，特朗普政府缺乏全国性协调应对措施。她说，各州州长们正在加紧提出“50种不同版本的解决方案”，而没有来自最高层的全国性应对措施。梅林达呼吁美国向德国学习，首先对医护人员和易感人群进行检测，然后进行接触者追踪，并考虑以安全和健康的方式慢慢地重新开放社区。然而，整个美国当前都缺少这种协调。

但梅林达说，为了实现上述目标，需要投入更多的资金用于病毒检测和开发接触者追踪技术，各组织也应该寻求为疫苗开发提供资金。她批评美国在国际舞台上“缺乏反应”，并担心非洲等地的粮食不安全和其他健康问题将在疫情后加剧，这可能导致疫情重新在欧美反弹。

Melinda Gates on Thursday gave a mark of "D-minus" for the lack of national coordination when asked to grade the U.S. administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

"We need leadership at the national level. We lost two months almost now in terms of our national response," Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said in an interview with U.S. news outlet Politico.

"In terms of our national response, we have governors who are stepping up. Luckily. But now we have fifty different homegrown state solutions instead of a national response," Gates was quoted as saying.

"If we were doing the things that the exemplar countries are doing, like Germany, we would be testing, first, health care workers and then the most vulnerable, and you'd be doing contact tracing," she said.

"And we would be able to start thinking about slowly reopening places in society in safe and healthy ways. But we have a lack of a coordinated effort. That's just the truth, across the United States," she added.

"We should be putting far more money into testing and tracing ... to where we can quarantine in the United States," she noted.

Pointing to a huge need at the global level "for a vaccine, for medicines, for testing," Gates said "more is needed for the international response, which the U.S. really has been lacking in its response completely on the international front."

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has provided funding to support endeavors combating COVID-19 globally.

It has been cooperating with national governments and international organizations such as the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund in the battle against the virus. 

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