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On January 3, 2020, a Chinese official informed U S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield of the outbreak of a respiratory illness in China Redfield relayed this information up the chain of command to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar who, in turn, informed the White House National Security Council Thus began the Trump administration\'s mishandling of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic--with devastating consequences In early January, intelligence officials began \'offering ominous, classified warnings about the virus to Trump in the President\'s Daily Brief,\' and the warnings continued into February Yet President Donald Trump consistently downplayed the severity of COVID-19, claiming on February 24, for example, that the \'coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!\' One day later, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Nancy Messonnier, warned the public of the inevitable spread of the virus: \'We need to be preparing for significant disruption in our lives \' Trump\'s response? He complained that Messonnier\'s comments were spooking the stock market
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