To be strictly fair, this could be the idiots in the media interpreting “We need to decide what level of detail we should brief the President at” as “we need to decide what to tell the President if anything at all.” Which wouldn’t be the first time.
I mean, I’m pretty sure Trump doesn’t need to read a microbiology report detailing the exact RNA sequence of the virus, etc.
I’m willing to bet that Trump knows a hell of a lot more about microbiology than ObaMao ever knew about economics.