| May 2018 | The Trump Administration disbands the White House pandemic response team. |
| July 2019 | The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) epidemiologist embedded in China’s disease control agency left the post, and the Trump Administration eliminated the role. |
| Oct. 2019 | “Currently, there are insufficient funding sources designated for the federal government to use in response to a severe influenza pandemic.” [Source: The results of a Department of Health and Human Services 2019 influenza pandemic simulation] |
| Jan. 22, 2020 | “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.” |
| Jan. 24, 2020 | Trump praises China’s handling of the coronavirus: “China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!” |
| Jan. 28, 2020 | “This will be the biggest national security threat you face in your presidency...This is going to be the roughest thing you face" Trump’s National Security Advisor to Trump |
| Jan. 30, 2020 | "The lack of immune protection or an existing cure or vaccine would leave Americans defenseless in the case of a full-blown coronavirus outbreak on US soil,...This lack of protection elevates the risk of the coronavirus evolving into a full-blown pandemic, imperiling the lives of millions of Americans.” [Memo from Trump Trade Advisor Peter Navarro] |
| Feb. 2, 2020 | “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.” |
| Feb. 7, 2020 | “It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flu... This is deadly stuff” [Trump in a private interview with Bob Woodward from The Washington Post made public on Sept. 9, 2020] |
| Feb. 10, 2020 | “I think the virus is going to be—it’s going to be fine.” |
| Feb. 10, 2020 | “Looks like by April, you know in theory when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.” |
| Feb. 24, 2020 | “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… the Stock Market starting to look very good to me!” |
| Feb. 25, 2020 | “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.” |
| Feb. 25, 2020 | “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.” |
| Feb. 26, 2020 | “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.” |
| Feb. 26, 2020 | “We're going very substantially down, not up.” |
| Feb. 26, 2020 | “Well, we're testing everybody that we need to test. And we're finding very little problem. Very little problem.” |
| Feb. 26, 2020 | "This is a flu. This is like a flu." |
| Feb. 27, 2020 | “It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.” |
| Feb. 28, 2020 | “We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.” |
| March 2, 2020 | “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?” [Trump to health officials who answered "No."] |
| March 2, 2020 | “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.” |
| March 4, 2020 | “Now, and this is just my hunch, and — but based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this. Because a lot people will have this and it's very mild.” |
| March 4, 2020 | “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” |
| March 5, 2020 | “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” |
| March 5, 2020 | “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” |
| March 6, 2020 | “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” |
| March 6, 2020 | “You have to be calm. It’ll go away.” |
| March 6, 2020 | “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” |
| March 6, 2020 | “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” |
| March 6, 2020 | “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” |
| March 7, 2020 | “No, I’m not concerned at all. |
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