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The ‘Red Dawn’ Emails: 8 Key Exchanges on the Faltering Response to the Coronavirus

Experts inside and outside the government identified the threat early on
and sought to raise alarms even as President Trump was moving slowly.
Read some of what they had to say among themselves at critical moments.

WASHINGTON — As the coronavirus emerged and headed toward the United
States, an extraordinary conversation was hatched among an elite group
of infectious disease doctors and medical experts in the federal
government and academic institutions around the nation.

He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus

An examination reveals the president was warned about the potential for
a pandemic but that internal divisions, lack of planning and his faith
in his own instincts led to a halting response.

WASHINGTON — “Any way you cut it, this is going to be bad,” a senior medical adviser at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Dr. Carter
Mecher, wrote on the night of Jan. 28, in an email to a group of public
health experts scattered around the government and universities. “The projected size of the outbreak already seems hard to believe.”

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