Trump’s daily intelligence brief reportedly warned of the coronavirus as far back as January

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Earlier action by the Trump administration could have helped ease the pandemic’s worst effects.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/4/28/21239663/coronavirus-presidential-daily-intelligence-briefing

......."But the repeated warnings didn’t appear to catch the president’s attention. Trump routinely skips reading the PDB and even ignores the oral summaries he receives from intelligence staff two or three times each week, according to the officials, who spoke with the Post anonymously.".....