If the National Institutes for Health wasn't paying attention to China, what was it doing? Fun and trendy stuff, the bureaucratic equivalent of playing video games instead of working.
On Thursday, Dr. Deborah Birx, one of the White House coronavirus task force members, finally had it with the media's propensity for hysteria and fear-mongering.
When Kellyanne Conway made herself available for questions from the media, the assembled press members didn't want to talk about things that might matter to the American people.
In addition to seeing Trump being serious, aggressive, and hopeful when handling the coronavirus situation, Americans also get to see what a terrible job the media are doing.