President Trump creates the White House Coronavirus Task Force on January 29, 2020 to lead the coronavirus response. This 12-member group was established just before HHS Secretary Alex Azar declared a public health emergency. At that time there were 15 cases of the coronavirus in the US, of which on is in the hospital. “The task force is made up of subject matter experts from across the federal government and has been meeting daily since Monday”. [2]
The “experts” are claiming most people don’t have any immunity to it because it is a ‘new virus’, claiming “none of us have any protection”. [1]
Two days earlier on January 27, 2020, Trump’s staff attended the first full meeting on the coronavirus in the White House Situation Room. Unbeknownst to those in attendance, Matthew Pottinger, Deputy National Security Advisor, had unilaterally called the meeting. He pushed for the travel bans while others urged for calm. [3]
On January 31, 2020, “Pottinger began popularizing the idea of shutdowns within the White House by circulating a Philly study among his White House colleagues” that showed Philadelphia was hit harder allegedly because they didn’t shut down.
Around the same time, Jan 28, CDC physician-scientist, Yen Pottinger, reached out to Deborah Birx on behalf of her husband Matt Pottinger to ask her to meet at the “West Wing”, where Matt then offered Birx “the position of White House spokesperson on the virus.” [3]