WaPo on why the Trump administration hit the panic button over Covid-19

A new study released earlier this week by the Imperial College London — which projected that 2.2 million would die in the United States alone if no steps were taken to curb the outbreak — was particularly influential among Trump’s inner circle.

~ "Analysis: Seven days as a 'wartime president:' Trump's up-and-down command of a pandemic," The Washington Post, March 20, 2020