The disastrous failure of the Trump administration to contain coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) will result in catastrophic second quarter data. As a result, Trump is risking his reelection on domestic unrest, fatal geopolitics and a global depression.

THE cold reality is that the Trump administration learned about the virus already on January 3 when Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Robert Redfield informed Secretary of Health Alex Azar that China had discovered a new coronavirus. Yet no mobilization was initiated until toward late March (see my report here: https://www.differencegroup.net/coronavirus-briefs).