This is what acting too late looks like.

When Trump imposed travel bans on Europe, #covid19 was already deeply circulating in the US (mostly from European influx).

His bans actually just caused a surge in importing more cases.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/one-final-viral-infusion-trumps-move-to-block-travel-from-europe-triggered-chaos-and-a-surge-of-passengers-from-the-outbreaks-center/2020/05/23/64836a00-962b-11ea-82b4-c8db161ff6e5_story.html

2/ Estimates suggest that up to 83% of deaths could have been averted if we had locked down just 2 weeks earlier.

The cost of inaction is huge.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/us/coronavirus-distancing-deaths.html

3/ This really brings me back to this thread I wrote re @DrMikeRyan words on pandemic response:

“If you have to be right before you move, you will never win”

https://twitter.com/abraarkaran/status/1257526025245855747?s=21 https://twitter.com/abraarkaran/status/1257526025245855747

4/ And to this recent op-ed I had written in @voxdotcom about making tough decisions in uncertain times.

We needed to move carefully—to not do more harm— but also to move quickly.

https://twitter.com/abraarkaran/status/1261054419719815171?s=21 https://twitter.com/abraarkaran/status/1261054419719815171