The incompetency of Trump has squandered the whole of February to early March. When China reported the outbreak to WHO in Dec 30, US CDC in regular contact with Chinese CDC since Jan 3, publishing of the virus genetic sequence in Jan 10, Wuhan lock down in Jan 23, US intel learn of the aggressive transmission nature of the virus as early as Jan, the first untraceable case in US in Feb 26, what had he done?

Whatever senate intel chairman Richard Burr knows about the virus, including the expected scenarios in the coming weeks, I bet he knew. When he said it’s no big deal that common flu kills 27,000-70,000 annually on Mar 9, I believe he literally meant it, ready to accept additional lost of tens of thousands life.

By the time Trump was forced to declare emergency reluctantly in Mar 9 when US confirmed cases is reportedly at 566, the outbreak has already spread, numbering thousands to tens of thousands undetected. The rapid testing in the week follow just uncovered it. Then he scrambled to find scapegoat.

Now he has another decision to make, how soon to loosen the containment. In a week or two, or in a month or two? It appear he has already ruled out months. This JP-Morgan graph show at what stage each country is. US has entered the acceleration stage. A bad decision will result in higher apex and prolong the epidemic. Whatever decision he made. he should learn to live with it instead of finding scapegoat later on.