This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and

around the world. I'm Farid Zakaria coming to you live from New York.

Today on the show, from COVID to cold war, the administration is making the case and strongly

that Beijing's recklessness unleashed the virus on the world. They could have contained

it. President Trump now threatens to hold China accountable.

I'll talk to White House economic and trade advisor Peter Navarro, the administration's

so-called super hawk on China.

Also, cars, restaurants and carouselons. Remember them? Well, in Sweden, they never close.

And its COVID infection rates aren't as bad as you might imagine. Why? We'll find out

from the country's chief epidemiologist.

Then, how do you protest in the age of COVID? We have images and answers.

But first, here's my take. For all those of us who have watched with mounting terror as President

Trump offers the public a seize of his half-baked ideas and hunches on how to handle and treat

and cure COVID-19, the solution seems obvious. Follow the science. Trump's detractors have

taken up this mantra. Follow the science. Listen to the experts.

Science, science, science. We're going to follow the doctors and the scientists.

But what does that mean? After all, it was Dr. Anthony Fauci, who initially downplayed

the dangers of the coronavirus. On January 26, he said, it's a very, very low risk to the

United States. It isn't something the American public needs to worry about or be frightened

about. A few days later, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said this.

To be fair, he was merely reflecting the views of the government's public health officials.

At the same time, Trump advised a Peter Navarro, a non-scientist looking at the same data

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