He basically lets the Trump administration off the hook but blames public health bureaucracy of California - typical of what I've come to expect from Niall Ferguson, a partisan hack at this point.
That's pretty loaded.
Should we let the entire liberal political establishment off the hook for screaming at the top of their lungs that Trump is evil for not going gung-ho with a WWII mobilization for ventilators? Only to later find that ventilators in many cases were not only ineffective, but leading to death.