It took 70 days from initial notification for Trump to treat the coronavirus not as a distant threat or harmless flu strain, but as a lethal force poised to kill tens of thousands.

That period now stands as critical time that was squandered. https://wapo.st/3aIsOX3 

The U.S. will likely go down as the nation that was supposedly best prepared to fight a pandemic but ended up catastrophically overmatched by the novel coronavirus, sustaining heavier casualties than any other nation. http://wapo.st/3aIsOX3 

The Post retraced the failures over those first 70 days of the coronavirus crisis, based on 47 interviews with administration officials, public health experts, intelligence officers and others involved in fighting the pandemic. http://wapo.st/3aIsOX3