Trump treated his decision to ban travel from China on January 31 as if he had all but solved the crisis.
“We pretty much shut it down,” he’d say on February 2.
But he knew that the virus was far more severe than he was letting on. In a private interview on February 7, two days after his impeachment acquittal—before his rally in New Hampshire, before his swing out West, where he held three more rallies, and before his trip to India—he’d told journalist Bob Woodward that the virus could be spread through the air—a fact that wasn’t widely known at the time.
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