Trump and Johnson like to pretend that they did not realise the danger of Covid-19 until the middle of March, even though the nature of the disease had been confirmed by the WHO in January. China's President Xi Jinping clearly listened to his scientists even if Trump did not do the same. As a recording made by Bob Woodward (did Trump learn nothing from Nixon's taping??) reveals, in early February President Xi had a conversation with the president of the USA in which he spelled out the risks posed by what was already an epidemic in south-east Asia.
President Donald Trump acknowledged the “deadly” nature of the coronavirus earlier this year in a series of recorded interviews with The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward, even as Trump publicly sought to dismiss the disease’s threat to Americans. Recounting a conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump told Woodward on Feb. 7 that the coronavirus is “more deadly than your, you know, your — even your strenuous flus.”This is a further refutation of Trump's assertion that China deliberately kept the world in the dark until the virus had reached pandemic status. It would be surprising if Trump did not pass on the gist of the conversation to his fellow New Yorker in 10 Downing Street.
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