Posted on 04/06/2020 9:29:16 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
Dated Jan. 29, it came during a period when Mr. Trump was playing down the risks to the United States, and he would later go on to say that no one could have predicted such a devastating outcome.
Mr. Navarro said in the memo that the administration faced a choice about how aggressive to be in containing an outbreak, saying the human and economic costs would be relatively low if it turned out to be a problem along the lines of a seasonal flu.
But he went on to emphasize that the “risk of a worst-case pandemic scenario should not be overlooked” given the information coming from China
The memo was dated the same day that Mr. Trump named a White House task force to deal with the threat, and as the administration was weighing whether to bar some travelers from China, an option being pushed by Mr. Navarro
Mr. Trump would approve the limits on travel from China the next day, though it would be weeks before he began taking more aggressive steps to head off spread of the virus.
Questions about Mr. Trump’s handling of the crisis, especially in its early days when he suggested it was being used by Democrats to undercut his re-election prospects, are likely to define his presidency. Mr. Navarro’s memo is evidence that some in the upper ranks of the administration had at least considered the possibility of the outbreak turning into something far more serious than Mr. Trump was acknowledging publicly at the time.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Yep, the travel ban was the most aggressive thing any president has done to slow a virus. The NY Times slimes everything.
pandemic. what pandemic?
5 Apr: JustTheNews: Tracking site suggests White House model is overestimating coronavirus hospitalizations
True numbers of Americans hospitalized with coronavirus appear to be tens of thousands lower than model’s projections.
by Daniel Payne
Those projections, popularly known as the “Murray” model after the model’s lead author, University of Washington professor Christopher Murray, were explicitly cited by Dr. Deborah Birx, the response coordinator for the White House’s Coronavirus Task Force, at a press conference in the last week...
The forecast predicted, for example, that the United States would need around 164,750 hospital beds for COVID-19 patients on Saturday. Yet the COVID Tracking Project, a team of journalists and data analysts who collect and tabulate coronavirus data from state tallies around the country, reported only around 22,158 currently hospitalized coronavirus patients nationwide on Saturday.
The discrepancies are also stark when looked at on a state-by-state basis. The model estimated that 65,434 patients would need hospital beds in New York State on Friday. In reality, there were 15,905 hospitalizations in that state by Sunday morning, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
Notably, the model touts its predictions as occurring under “full social distancing” through May of this year, meaning the projected hospitalizations are meant to occur even with significant quarantine measures...
Dr. Anthony Fauci, meanwhile, reportedly said during a recent meeting that disease models “don’t tell you anything. You can’t really rely upon models.”
Fauci has elsewhere indicated a preference for overestimating the possible effect of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, telling reporters in March: “I think we should be overly aggressive and get criticized for overreacting.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/white-houses-coronavirus-model-has-overestimated-tens-thousands
CDC Flu Season 2019-2020
•CDC estimates that so far this season there have been at least 39 million flu illnesses, 400,000 hospitalizations and 24,000 deaths from flu.
China is the reason the entire world was blind sided by this pandemic. They hid the truth and lied and continue to lie to this day.
https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152
World Health Organization (WHO)
@WHO · Jan 14
Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel
No name on this crap pile.
It is 2020. They need to post the memo and we can read it and form our own opinions. No need for them to translate it for us...unless they have dishonest motives.
I use to use the NYT on the bottom of my bird cage but since there has been a shortage of toilet paper............ well you know the rest of the story, All its good for
Really??
You didn’t read where they credited Navarro and the others for their early words of caution but then slammed Trump for “downplaying the possibility” as they claimed? You didn’t read where they said Trump’s “downplaying” would “define” his presidency?
Usual biased bologny.
Praised Navarro alright. Only so they could do the normal number on Trump. Same old same old.
“Mr. Navarro’s memo is evidence that some in the upper ranks of the administration had at least considered the possibility of the outbreak turning into something far more serious than Mr. Trump was acknowledging publicly at the time.”
They didn’t have a problem downplaying the IMPEACHMENT.
JANUARY! in the screaming headline. January 29th in the small print.
UGH, fake news.
More narrative manufacturing from the old gray whore.
Dems using a disaster for political cheap shots? How dare Trump say such a thing!
IOW, the New York Slimes are partisan liars trying to push the DNC narrative.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/peternavarro/index
They claim to be the paper of record, but this shows otherwise.
The memo was dated the same day that Mr. Trump named a White House task force to deal with the threat, and as the administration was weighing whether to bar some travelers from China, an option being pushed by Mr. Navarro
Mr. Trump would approve the limits on travel from China the next day...
F’ the NYTimes.
Wow. I’ve seen spin before, but this is just surreal. Just imagine how the NYT will be in October!
I think it is finally starting to trickle into some very thick skulls, finally, finally. I hope more and more wake up.
Not just NYT most most of the mass media news and print are under control, direction, bribery, blackmail, marching orders of CCP.
Expect President Trump and Peter Navarro to release/read the entire memo at today’s briefing. Ukraine phone call redux.
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