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20,000 dead and here we are, wondering what could have been done differently, who knew what, when,and what actions should we have taken?
The ‘Red Dawn’ Emails: 8 Key Exchanges on the Faltering Response to the Coronavirus
New York Times coronavirus report outlines how Trump 'could have seen what was coming' - CNNPolitics
The truth of what happened is laid bare and it is sickening.
The ‘Red Dawn’ Emails: 8 Key Exchanges on the Faltering Response to the Coronavirus
Experts inside and outside the government identified the threat early on and sought to raise alarms even as President Trump was moving slowly. Read some of what they had to say among themselves at critical moments.
Dr. Kadlec and other administration officials decided the next day to recommend to Mr. Trump that he publicly support the start of these mitigation efforts, such as school closings. But before they could discuss it with the president, who was returning from India, another official went public with a warning, sending the stock market down sharply and angering Mr. Trump. The meeting to brief him on the recommendation was canceled and it was three weeks before Mr. Trump would reluctantly come around to the need for mitigation.
New York Times coronavirus report outlines how Trump 'could have seen what was coming' - CNNPolitics
According to the report, Dr. Robert Kadlec, the top disaster response official at the Department of Health and Human Services, convened the White House coronavirus task force on February 21. During his meeting, the group conducted a mock-up exercise of the pandemic. It predicted 110 million infections, 7.7 million hospitalizations and 586,000 deaths. As a result, the group "concluded they would soon need to move toward aggressive social distancing, even at the risk of severe disruption to the nation's economy and the daily lives of millions of Americans."
However, it would take more than three weeks for Trump to enact social distancing guidelines on March 16.
The truth of what happened is laid bare and it is sickening.