CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Trump administration economist Todas Philipson said on Friday [July 17, 2020] that his team alerted the White House about the dangers of a looming pandemic outbreak about three months before Covid-19 is believed to have made its way into the United States…
On Friday, he told CNN’s Poppy Harlow that he co-authored and published a CEA report titled ‘Mitigating the Impact of Pandemic Influenza through Vaccine Innovation’ that warned a pandemic disease could kill as many as half a million Americans and cause up to $3.79 trillion in damage to the US economy.”
-Chauncey Alcorn, “Ex-Trump economist says White House was warned of potential pandemic disaster in September,” cnn.com, July 17, 2020