Back in January, when most of the Western world was trying to convince itself that coronavirus would remain a problem just for China, Trump's trade adviser Peter Navarro had the forsight to disagree.
In a memo written to the president on 29 January, he tried to warn that things could get very very serious, and that drastic measures should be taken otherwise up to 30 per cent of the US population could become infected, and half a million people could die. ever having seen it, despite following one of the key pieces of advice: to ban all travel from China.
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