When last January 22 he was asked for the first time in public about what was still an outbreak of a new coronavirus In China, President Donald Trump sought to dispatch the issue quickly.
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“We have it fully under control,” he said from Davos, Switzerland. “He is a person who came from China,” he added in an apparent attempt to tone down the confirmation in the United States of the first case of this virus of which little was known.
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A tone that, when compared to his most recent statements, is diametrically opposite to that of that day. Almost two months have passed and the coronavirus has left practically no country immune to its spread, at the same time that it paralyzes cities and disrupts the daily life of the entire world. He has claimed the lives of 7,807 people and sickened 191,127, according to the numbers from the World Health Organization (WHO) to March 18.
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The hard blow that it will suppose for the world economies and that of the United States has especially put the Trump government to run, which has had in economic performance one of its main workhorses.
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In this chronology we illustrate how the President has been modifying his words in a situation that has practically burst in his face, after having reviewed his public appearances and having contrasted his statements with those of senior officials of his government and WHO.
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