"Trump has claimed that his administration could not have foreseen the coronavirus pandemic, which has spread to all 50 states and more than 180 nations, sickening more than 460,000 people around the world. “Nobody ever expected a thing like this,” Trump said in a Fox News interview on Tuesday.
But Trump’s aides were told to expect a potential pandemic, ranging from a
tabletop exercise that the outgoing Obama administration prepared for the president’s incoming aides to a “
Crimson Contagion” scenario that health officials undertook just last year and modeled out potential risks of a global infectious disease threat."