On February 26, President Trump announced at a press conference that only fifteen Americans had been infected with the virus, and that “when you have fifteen people, and the fifteen within a couple of days is going to be down close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.” The next evening, taking questions after a White House meeting with African American leaders, Trump had simply declared, “It’s going to disappear. One day—it’s like a miracle—it will disappear.”
