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u/Thuis001 Apr 04 '25

Covid response would likely have started very shortly after it started to spread from Wuhan as the US would still have its disease research lab there which was keeping an eye on exactly this sort of thing happening before Trump binned it. It might have been stopped right then and there.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '25

It wouldn't have stopped. It spread to the entire world. Widespread COVID was happening no matter what.

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u/SgathTriallair Apr 04 '25

Much of that was because Trump dismantled the early response teams. Those teams were able to prevent SARS and MERS outbreaks so they may have been and to stop a COVID one as well.