The New Yorkerのインスタグラム(newyorkermag) - 12月29日 01時45分

Matthew Pottinger, President Trump’s deputy national-security adviser, recalls being struck by the disparity between China’s official accounts of the emerging novel coronavirus, which scarcely mentioned the disease, and Chinese social media, which was aflame with rumors and anecdotes. After it was announced that Wuhan, a city of 11 million people, would be put under lockdown, he dug up files from his days reporting on SARS. His brother, Paul, an infectious-disease doctor in Seattle, told Matt to do whatever he could to slow the virus’s advance, giving the U.S. a chance to establish testing and contact-tracing protocols, which could keep the outbreak under control. Otherwise, the year ahead might be calamitous.

On January 28th, during the President’s daily intelligence briefing, Pottinger leaped to his feet and recounted what he’d heard from his sources in China—most shockingly, that more than half the disease’s spread was attributed to asymptomatic carriers. Yet, every day, thousands of people were flying from China to the U.S. Within a few days, it was clear that human-to-human transmission was happening in America, and the Trump Administration implemented a bold but incomplete travel ban.

At the link in our bio, Lawrence Wright looks back at the yearlong COVID-19 catastrophe, and at the fatal missteps—and heroic efforts—that defined the U.S.’s response. Photo illustration by @tylercomrie; photograph by @nataliekeyssar for The New Yorker.

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