coronavirus was early in outbreak. What's that again? U.S. medical officials didn't completely understand the threat China CV-19 posed to America. Maybe this had something to do with President Trump changing his mind in regards to the Federal government's response to it.
"Dr. Deborah Birx, the response coordinator for the White House coronavirus task force, told Fox News Thursday that initial data about the coronavirus outbreak from China left U.S. officials unable to properly prepare for when the virus made its way to the U.S.
"The bottom line is we didn't know how contagious it was," Brix told Martha MacCallum during a special Fox News digital town hall event. "And I think when you make misassumptions around contagion early on, then you don't prepare in the way that you should prepare for the level of contagion that this COVID-19 exhibits."
https://www.foxnews.com/media/dr-deborah-birx-coronavirus-pandemic-contagious
The left has been playing 'Monday morning quarterback', second guessing the government's changing policies in response to the Chinese virus. Dr. Brix offers an explanation why experts changed their recommendations to the President.