Turns out the Trump administration ignored pandemic warnings. Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Read more here:
"White House economists published a study last September that warned a pandemic disease could kill a half-million Americans and devastate the economy.
It went unheeded inside the administration.
In late February and early March, as the coronavirus pandemic began to spread from China to the rest of the world, President Trump’s top economic advisers played down the threat the virus posed to the U.S. economy and public health.
“I don’t think corona is as big a threat as people make it out to be,” the acting chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Tomas Philipson, told reporters during a Feb. 18 briefing, on the same day that more than a dozen American cruise ship passengers who had contracted the virus were evacuated home. Public health threats did not typically hurt the economy, Mr. Philipson said. He suggested the virus would not be nearly as bad as a normal flu season."*
Hosts: Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola
Cast: Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola
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