President Trump has repeatedly described the coronavirus outbreak as unforeseen -- but the US intelligence community, public health experts and officials in Trump's own administration had warned for years that the country was at risk from a pandemic
The crisis is"an unforeseen problem" that"came out of nowhere," Trump said on March 6."We're having to fix a problem that, four weeks ago, nobody ever thought would be a problem," he said on March 11."It's something that nobody expected," he said again on March 14. Facts First: Trump is just wrong.
" The intelligence community's 2018 threat assessment warned that a"novel strain of a virulent microbe that is easily transmissible between humans continues to be a major threat" -- specifically listing a coronavirus, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, as one with"pandemic potential.
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