Vice President Mike Pence’s handling of a health crisis when he was governor of Indiana is getting a fresh look.

This comes after President Donald Trump tasked him with overseeing the U.S. response to the new coronavirus threat.

Critics say he mishandled the 2015 HIV outbreak in southern Indiana. Pence delayed allowing a program to provide clean needles to intravenous drug users in one rural county where nearly 200 people eventually tested positive for HIV.

Foundation for AIDS Research official Greg Millett says the outbreak would have been “entirely preventable” if Pence had acted earlier. Pence was worried that needle exchange programs enabled illegal drug abuse.