I would point this out....the 1917 flu epidemic in the US...got virtually ‘no comment’ from President Wilson, and drew almost no federal response whatsoever. You can look via newspapers and historical reports....but the executive office just gazed and watched the whole thing develop. You can label the Wilson presidency as mostly a failure, with the exception of WW I actions. If WW I had not occurred, it’d be a pretty dismal record.
I see the same score here with the President and current team. How to milk this for political gain just won’t work. They’d need a whole new team around the President, to realize the implications here and do the right things.
...and many would argue that Wilson screwed us with his WWI actions. He ran on a platform that he would keep us out of the war. Then we ended up at war anyway. If the US had stayed out of WWI, there was a chance that there wouldn’t have been a WWII