Letter to the editor: A Trump-covid-19 timeline

Dec. 19: President Trump was impeached.

Jan. 8: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued its first alert.

Jan. 9: Trump hosted rally.

Jan. 14: Trump hosted rally.

Jan. 18-19: Trump played golf (West Palm Beach, Fla.).

Jan. 20: First confirmed case of covid-19.

Jan. 22: Trump said, “We have it totally under control” when asked about the virus spreading.

Jan. 28: Trump hosted rally.

Jan. 30: Trump hosted rally.

Jan. 31: Trump implemented China travel restrictions (seven covid-19 cases in U.S.).

Feb. 1: Trump played golf (West Palm Beach)

Feb. 4: 11 confirmed cases in the U.S.

Feb. 5: Senate acquitted Trump.

Feb. 10: Trump hosted rally.

Feb. 15: Trump played golf (West Palm Beach).

Feb. 19-21: Trump hosted rallies.

Feb. 25: CDC official Nancy Messonnier warned that a coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. was inevitable.

Feb. 28: Trump hosted rally and said Democrats “politicizing the coronavirus” was “their new hoax” (59 confirmed cases and two deaths).

March 6: Trump said the coronavirus “came out of nowhere.”

March 7-8: Trump played golf (West Palm Beach).

March 11: WHO declared covid-19 a pandemic

March 16: White House released social distancing guidelines.

March 17: Trump made change from previous statements and said, “This is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”

March 31: At press briefing, Trump said the impeachment “probably” took up some of his attention but later insisted that he wouldn’t have acted differently in response to the coronavirus.

Dale Vukovich Sr.

Hempfield