‘An examination reveals the president was warned about the potential for a pandemic but that internal divisions, lack of planning and his faith in his own instincts led to a halting response…
‘During the last week in March, Kellyanne Conway, a senior White House adviser involved in task force meetings, gave voice to concerns other aides had. She warned Mr. Trump that his wished-for date of Easter to reopen the country likely couldn’t be accomplished. Among other things, she told him, he would end up being blamed by critics for every subsequent death caused by the virus.
‘Within days, he watched images on television of a calamitous situation at Elmhurst Hospital Center, miles from his childhood home in Queens, NY. where 13 people had died from the coronavirus in 24 hours.’
NOTE: On April 13, when NY Governor Cuomo said the ‘worst is over’, the total cases in New York was 195,031 with 10,056 deaths (NYT report of April 13)
Read here (New York Times, April 11, 2020)
