Timeline: How Trump was out of step with the CDC during coronavirus response

While public health officials and medical experts raised the alarm about the coronavirus outbreak, a timeline of events shows that President Trump downplayed their concerns and injected controversial and unproven theories into the conversation

– President Donald Trump and other White House officials are on the attack against the coronavirus, but also against the President’s critics, who say his administration waspress conference

“I took a lot of heat,” Trump said about the travel ban he imposed in January, which blocked people who were in China from entering the United States. “Some people called me racist because I made a decision so early… It was a bold decision, and it turned out to be a good decision.” By the end of February, Trump and administration officials started shifting their tone. They spoke about the expected uptick in cases andfrom his comment that concerns about the virus were a “hoax” peddled by Democrats to help them at the polls this November.

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