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Editor’s note: Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday was put in charge of handling the federal response to the coronavirus. Pence has been tasked with handling a deadly infectious disease before — and performed terribly. Stephen Rodrick, in his 2017 profile of the vice president, explored how Pence’s slow and …

Mr. Rogers once said that in times of crisis, you should always look for the helpers. Unfortunately, Mr. Rogers did not live in the age of social media, where people are less likely to offer help and more likely to board an airplane and announce that they have coronavirus to …