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Trump reportedly threatened to fire a top doctor at the CDC for sounding the alarm about coronavirus in February

into all of the times Trump brushed aside warnings of the severity of the coronavirus crisis, failed to act, and was delayed by significant infighting and mixed messages from his aides at the White House.focused on the role of Secretary of Health & Human Services Alex Azar in directing, and then being pushed to the side of, the Trump administration's coronavirus response following a series of crucial missteps he made — in addition to his clashing with Trump.

Both the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times reported that the defining event that led to Azar's role being diminished was when a top CDC official broke from the administration's otherwise optimistic messaging on coronavirus. In late February, Trump was on a state visit to India when Dr. Messonnier, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC,Something is loading.

"It's not so much a question of if this will happen anymore but rather more a question of exactly when this will happen and how many people in this country will have severe illness,"

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