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From The Guardian ➤ Economic adviser gave worst-case scenario of 500,000 deaths ➤ Trump claimed no one could have predicted disease’s severity.
By Ed Pilkington and Martin Pengelly

Donald Trump was warned at the end of January by one of his top White House advisers that coronavirus had the potential to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans and derail the US economy, unless tough action were taken immediately, new memos have revealed. 

The memos were written by Trump’s economic adviser, Peter Navarro, and circulated via the National Security Council widely around the White House and federal agencies.

They show that even within the Trump administration alarm bells were ringing by late January, at a time when the president was consistently downplaying the threat of Covid-19.

According to figures from Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, by Tuesday more than 368,000 cases of Covid-19 had been confirmed in the US and more than 11,000 people had died. New York is the hardest-hit state: on Tuesday the governor, Andrew Cuomo, said the death toll was nearly 5,500, after the biggest single-day increase. 

Continue reading @ The Guardian.

Trump Was Warned In January Of Covid-19's Devastating Impact, Memos Reveal

From The Guardian ➤ Economic adviser gave worst-case scenario of 500,000 deaths ➤ Trump claimed no one could have predicted disease’s severity.
By Ed Pilkington and Martin Pengelly

Donald Trump was warned at the end of January by one of his top White House advisers that coronavirus had the potential to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans and derail the US economy, unless tough action were taken immediately, new memos have revealed. 

The memos were written by Trump’s economic adviser, Peter Navarro, and circulated via the National Security Council widely around the White House and federal agencies.

They show that even within the Trump administration alarm bells were ringing by late January, at a time when the president was consistently downplaying the threat of Covid-19.

According to figures from Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, by Tuesday more than 368,000 cases of Covid-19 had been confirmed in the US and more than 11,000 people had died. New York is the hardest-hit state: on Tuesday the governor, Andrew Cuomo, said the death toll was nearly 5,500, after the biggest single-day increase. 

Continue reading @ The Guardian.
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3 comments:

  1. MickO9:13 PM, April 10, 2020

    cuomo is a fraud too. I am beginning to think various Intel agencies are at war with each other. Btw, the projected millions will die figure has been greatly reduced. A bit like the UK version as well. Pattern developing?

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  2. Jimmy Cummins10:48 AM, April 12, 2020

    Divided States of America

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