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Important and well reported look into the president's slow response to the pandemic. If you read just one story today, this is it. @EricLiptonNYT @SangerNYT @maggieNYT @shearm @MarkMazzettiNYT @julianbarnes https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-response.html?referringSource=articleShare
Despite Trump's denial that he saw Navarro's Jan. 29 memo warning of 500,000 deaths, he was told about it at the time.
A Feb. 14 memo outlined a response that included school closures, cancellations of sports events and concerts and widespread sta-at-home orders but the federal government did not issue such guidelines until mid-March.
In a tense Oval Office meeting, Mnuchin worried that the economy would be ravaged. O'Brien, exasperated, said the economy would be destroyed regardless if officials did nothing.
Kushner urged Gottlieb to visit Trump and impress upon him how serious the crisis could become. But it was Birx who helped persuade Trump to accept social distancing guidelines.
In late March, Conway warned Trump that an Easter reopening wouldn't work and that he would be blamed for every subsequent death caused by the virus.
