Ex-Trump economist says White House was warned of potential pandemic disaster in September

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New York (CNN Business)Former Trump administration economist Todas Philipson said on Friday that his team alerted the White House about the dangers of a looming pandemic outbreak about three months before Covid-19 is believed to have made its way into the United States.

Philipson served three years as acting chairman of the administration's Council of Economic Advisers before stepping down in June to resume his teaching role at the University of Chicago. Philipson acknowledged testing positive for Covid-19 less than a month before his White House departure, according to The Wall Street Journal.

On Friday, he told CNN's Poppy Harlow that he co-authored and published a CEA report titled "Mitigating the Impact of Pandemic Influenza through Vaccine Innovation" that warned a pandemic disease could kill as many as half a million Americans and cause up to $3.79 trillion in damage to the US economy.

Previously, President Trump has insisted that no one could have foreseen or prevented the coronavirus outbreak, but Harlow pointed out on Friday that Philipson's 41-page report was presented to senior White House officials in September of last year.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/17/business/pandemic-warning-tomas-philipson/index.html

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Wow, Trump had this info in Sept of 2019 and did nothing.

Failed his oath of office and through his criminal negliegence, 300,000 Americans will lose their lives (projecting to 1/21). He should be re-impeached for criminal negligence in not reacting in 2019..

Articles of impeachment could be submitted for a vote in the House tomorrow. Make Republicans vote to acquit again.

[crickets]

4. I'd prefer trial for criminal negligence, maybe even genocide.

While we're waiting, I'd take articles of impeachment in a hot minute, though.

[Dem2theMax]

2. Ooops. Well, there goes that excuse.

Every time I think I can't possibly be more angry, I read something that proves I'm wrong.

[dweller]

3. he didn't read it

probably had golf outing to attend


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[Blue_true]

11. Like Bush The Lessor and the warning about an attack on the USA, months

before 9/11. An FBI agent in the Midwest had gotten a bead on one of the potential hijackers, if she had been listened to, maybe 9/11 could have been prevented, or at least reduced in severity.

[mr_lebowski]

5. Note that it's not specifically said that Trump was told about Coronavirus in September 2019 ...

It's written in such a way as to imply it, but that's not actually stated.

Pretty sure this gentleman's report was general information about the possibility a pandemic could hit soon, I'm guessing based on the historical frequency of such things. And likely pointed out that the country is woefully ill-prepared.

[Hoyt]

7. +1. Really poor journalism. Too much of that nowadays.

[Hoyt]

6. Get the feeling the warning was not specifically related to CV19, but was

more that something could happen and we ought to have a plan.

[OAITW r.2.0]

8. Reminds me of Bush/Cheney shit-canning the Gore Rudman Report on terrorism.

Republican response - TLDR....and then 9/11 happened. Except this is 100X worse (based on projected American lives lost by 1/2021).

[Hassler]

9. POUTUS knew about pandemic and did nothing. Knew

About Putin bounties and did nothing. Lock. This Traitor. Up.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

10. The problem Trump had with that report was.....

it was 40-pages too long.......

Actually, just like with President Obama's pandemic report, the real problem was that it didn't originate from a Republican think tank or Faux News.


KY........

[Blue_true]

12. Also, it likely was not written in sharpie and mentioned him in every sentence. nt