HIV infections had reached 126 cases in a relatively small geographical area in rural Indiana around January 2015, but it took until March of that year for then-Governor Pence to declare a public health emergency.
When President Donald Trump appointed Vice President Mike Pence in charge of the US government's response to the novel coronavirus on Wednesday, he said the former Indiana governor had"a certain talent for this."
Pence indeed has executive experience during a public health emergency: he was governor from 2013 to 2017, when an HIV outbreak struck parts of his state. But his response to that crisis -- one different in several important ways from coronavirus -- is again under scrutiny as he works to coordinate the US effort to protect against worldwide calamity that is still unfolding.
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