President Donald Trump was projecting calm in February when speaking about the new virus from China in part because of concerns about a mass panic that could have left grocery store shelves bare and crash the economy, the White House said on Wednesday.
Trump told journalist Bob Woodward on Feb. 7 that the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus “is deadly stuff,” according to Woodward’s new book. He said the virus, which causes COVID-19, was “more deadly than even your strenuous flu.”
