White House trade adviser Peter Navarro warned the White House in January of a 'full-blown pandemic, imperiling the lives of millions of Americans' from the coronavirus, The New York Times reported Monday.
Washington President Donald Trump's trade adviser Peter Navarro fired off an internal flare at the White House in late January, warning in a memo that the coronavirus could become a"full-blown pandemic," risking trillions of dollars in economic losses and the health of millions, a source familiar with the memo confirmed to CNN.
In the late January memo, Navarro pushed for a travel ban on China -- something he and other officials had begun lobbying for weeks earlier -- and"aggressive" containment efforts.Less than a month later, as Trump continued to downplay the threat, Navarro wrote a second memo and warned that the risk of a pandemic was rising and urged the White House's coronavirus task force to secure billions in supplemental spending, according to two sources familiar with the second memo.
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