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   From: BiteMe@Bitch.org   
      
   The ‘Red Dawn’ Emails: 8 Key Exchanges on the Faltering Response to the   
   Coronavirus   
      
   Experts inside and outside the government identified the threat early on   
   and sought to raise alarms even as President Trump was moving slowly.   
   Read some of what they had to say among themselves at critical moments.   
      
   WASHINGTON — As the coronavirus emerged and headed toward the United   
   States, an extraordinary conversation was hatched among an elite group   
   of infectious disease doctors and medical experts in the federal   
   government and academic institutions around the nation.   
      
   He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus   
      
   An examination reveals the president was warned about the potential for   
   a pandemic but that internal divisions, lack of planning and his faith   
   in his own instincts led to a halting response.   
      
   WASHINGTON — “Any way you cut it, this is going to be bad,” a senior   
   medical adviser at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Dr. Carter   
   Mecher, wrote on the night of Jan. 28, in an email to a group of public   
   health experts scattered around the government and universities. “The   
   projected size of the outbreak already seems hard to believe.”   
      
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