Add White House economists' 2019 report to list of pandemic warnings Team Trump ignored
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The number of warnings the Trump White House had that a pandemic might be a problem would be almost comical if we weren’t living in a tragedy. A study just last September warned that a pandemic could kill hundreds of thousands of people and badly damage thAdd White House economists' 2019 report to list of pandemic warnings Team Trump ignored
The number of warnings the Trump White House had that a pandemic might be a problem would be almost comical if we weren’t living in a tragedy. A study just last September warned that a pandemic could kill hundreds of thousands of people and badly damage the economy. And the study was written by a pair of White House economists at the request of the National Security Council, so, yes, people in the White House saw it. The 2019 study didn’t predict that the novel coronavirus was coming—rather, it predicted the scope of economic damage from a pandemic and called for a push on vaccine creation capacity—but it’s yet another reminder that there were people taking the possibility of a pandemic seriously immediately before President Donald Trump spent months denying it could possibly happen here. Read more