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DrHarleyboy, Better to start with Trump's dismantling of protections Obama left him.

Tearex, All Trump's masks, PPE/ventilators et al is playing catch-up for his dismantling of protections and slow early start.

And don't forget, in countries overseas Trump dismantled America's forward defense against the emergence of new viruses.

"In May 2018, Trump ordered the NSC’s entire global health security unit shut down, calling for reassignment of Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer and dissolution of his team inside the agency. The month before, then-White House National Security Advisor John Bolton pressured Ziemer’s DHS counterpart, Tom Bossert, to resign along with his team. Neither the NSC nor DHS epidemic teams have been replaced. The global health section of the CDC was so drastically cut in 2018 that much of its staff was laid off and the number of countries it was working in was reduced from 49 to merely 10.
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Remember who said there would be a miracle and that it was just disappear one day. Then there was

Trump's PPE fail

How Kushner’s Volunteer Force Led a Fumbling Hunt for Medical Supplies
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Trump's ongoing lack of a lead from a leader of a serious testing regime

White House Is Not Tracing Contacts for ‘Super-Spreader’ Rose Garden Event
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Trump's personal contributions

Multiple states report COVID-19 cases linked to Sturgis rally
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Trump's latest flavor of the month cardiologist adviser, Mr. Atlas, who like Trump is attracted to the herd approach

Trump’s New Coronavirus Adviser Wants to Copy Sweden Approach
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This might help you re Trump's travel restrictions. What you're talking about was never a ban.

The Facts on Trump’s Travel Restrictions
By Robert Farley Posted on March 6, 2020
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“We have not seen any evidence that shows the travel restrictions stopped or slowed down transmission of the virus that causes COVID-19,” Nuzzo told us via email. “It is possible that it did, but there is no evidence to show this. Rather there are a number of reasons to believe that this may very well not be the case.”
P - Chiefly, she said, that’s because “we weren’t seriously looking for cases in the US.”
P - “If you had mild infection, you were not tested,” Nuzzo said. “If you had viral pneumonia not requiring oxygen but had not been to Wuhan, you wouldn’t have been tested.”
P - “Prior to the US travel restrictions, China began suspending outbound flights,” Nuzzo said. “Airlines also began canceling flights due to low travel volume. Then, the US implemented travel restrictions, which further reduced travel from China. The exception was Americans who were returning home from China. These folks were subject to quarantine upon return. A number of cases were found among these individuals. If you only test travelers from China and you greatly reduce the number of travelers coming from China, then you would be likely to not find many cases.
P - “But it doesn’t mean the virus hadn’t entered the US prior to travel restrictions,” Nuzzo said, as data now suggests occurred in Washington state.
P - Also, she said other countries, including Japan, Singapore and Korea, had a significant number of coronavirus cases, but they weren’t subject to travel restrictions. The U.S. “would likely not have picked it up” if travelers coming to the U.S. from those countries “because we weren’t using these other countries as criteria for testing.”
P - A modeling study published in Science magazine on March 6, “The effect of travel restrictions on the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak,” concluded that, “In areas affected by the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19), travel restrictions will only modestly impact the spread of the outbreak,” according to a press release for the study.
P - “Based on the study’s results, the authors say the greatest benefit to mitigating the epidemic will come from public health interventions and behavioral changes that achieve a considerable reduction in the disease transmissibility – factors like early detection, isolation, and handwashing,” according to the press release.
P - The authors concluded that travel restrictions introduced by the Chinese government in Wuhan in Jan. 23 and the halting of airline flights to and from China starting in early February at first slowed the spread of the disease to the rest of the world. Even still, a large number of individuals exposed to the virus had been traveling internationally without being detected and, the authors note, the number of imported cases around the world went up in a matter of weeks.
P - “Moving forward we expect that travel restrictions to COVID-19 affected areas will have modest effects, and that transmission-reduction interventions will provide the greatest benefit to mitigate the epidemic,” the authors wrote.
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/the-facts-on-trumps-travel-restrictions/

That's only a fraction of what's around if ever you get any inclination to take an honest look at it yourself.