evidence: In the week since President Trump asked Vice President Pence to take over the government’s response to the coronavirus, there have been two main reactions. The first has been to ask whether this unflappable if somewhat robotic figure with a penchant for bone-dry news conferences and a spotty record as governor of Indiana — including a weak response to an HIV outbreak — was the right person to handle this fast unfolding and deadly health crisis. And the second was to wonder if Trump might be intentionally setting up his No. 2 for a fall. [...] But in this health crisis, there’s nowhere to hide. When Trump put Pence in charge of the coronavirus response, the media promptly rediscovered his mishandling of the HIV outbreak in southern Indiana in 2015. State and local health officials had pressed Pence for weeks to approve a limited needle exchange as an effort to curb the outbreak, but he dragged his feet, worsening the outbreak, experts said.