Did he mean that it posed no threat because it wasn’t circulating in our communities yet? Or did he mean that it was never going to be a threat to Americans?
I’m pretty sure he meant the former, not the latter.
"On the basis of a case definition requiring a diagnosis of pneumonia, the currently reported case fatality rate is approximately 2%.4 In another article in the Journal, Guan et al.5 report mortality of 1.4% among 1099 patients with laboratory-confirmed Covid-19; these patients had a wide spectrum of disease severity. If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%. This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.2"
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2002387
Danny O’Boy you a walking, talking example of what happens to your brain when you watch CNN, MSNBC and the rest of the MSM.