his big defense (read: deflection) was ta the closed the border to China. He didnt actually do that at all, but that was his claim and its was based on a January 31, 2020 "ban."
Long ago there were reports of the virus on the east coast (ie it was already here). Science has confirmed as much
"Still, the findings provide evidence the new coronavirus was infecting Americans before the world learned that it was causing a deadly outbreak in Wuhan, China. Two of the cases also occurred weeks before public-health officials confirmed the virus had arrived in the U.S., and before they started testing people widely.
and the science leads to the inescapable conclusion that ONE OF TRUMPS BIG, ANTI-SCIENCE POLITICAL DECISIONS led to a lot of lost lives
"“It helps us understand a little bit more about the geographic spread of where the virus was in those very early days of the U.S. epidemic,” said Keri Althoff, lead author and associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.
The cases the researchers found, Dr. Althoff said, suggest the new virus was “being seeded perhaps in states that we didn’t necessarily have on our radar before this.”
The findings also underscore the need for tests to be widely available as early as possible when an outbreak occurs, she said. Limited by the number of tests and labs early in the pandemic, public-health officials evaluated only people with symptoms who had traveled to a country where Covid-19 was spreading, missing many who were infected."
THE TRUMP FLOATED HYDRO TEST STORY THREAD IS MANY MANY POSTS, NOW DICUSSING A VACCINE AND WHETHER IT WAS 'PERFECTLY SAFE'
THIS THREAD -- BECAUSE ITS CRITICAL OF TRUMP - WILL BE LARGELY IGNORED BY THE CULT OR FILLED WITH ALL KINDS OF NAME CALLING BS