Thread by @TheValuesVoter

At the moment there are 22,132 known #Coronavirus cases in the US, in every state in the country and in DC. It's killed 282 people in this country.

On 1/22/20, Trump said "We have it totally under control. It's one person coming in from China. It's going to be just fine."

What was the state of the outbreak in this country at the time Trump made various public statements?

Here's a timeline.

When Trump made his statement that "It's one person coming in from China" on January 22nd, he was actually accurate about the number of known cases at that point in time. There was one known case in one state. No one had passed away from Coronavirus yet.

On January 28th, Trump held a campaign rally in New Jersey. By that time there were 5 cases in 4 states.

He held a rally two days later in Iowa. By that time there were 6 cases in 4 states.

On February 2nd, Trump said "we pretty much shut it down coming in from China." But by that time there were 8 cases in 5 states.

On February 10th, he said "a lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat - as the heat comes in." There were then 12 cases in 6 states.

Over the next 10 days, Trump held rallies in New Hampshire and Arizona and tweeted his displeasure with the sentence that had been handed down against Roger Stone. By February 20th, when he held a rally in Colorado, we had 14 known cases across 6 states.

On February 24th, Trump said "the Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA … Stock Market starting to look very good to me." On the 25th he tweeted "CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus."

On February 28th, on the eve of the South Carolina Democratic Primary, Trump attended a rally in the Charleston area in which he encouraged his supporters to vote for the weakest Democratic opponent.

The next day, we had 24 cases in 7 states and the first coronavirus mortality.

On March 1st, Trump tweeted "Coronavirus: In addition to screening travelers “prior to boarding” from certain designated high risk countries, or areas within those countries, they will also be screened when they arrive in America. Thank you!"

We then had 42 cases in 10 states.

On March 4th, Trump said in a Fox News interview that people who were sick might get better "by sitting around and even going to work."

The next day he tweeted a denial of having said this. We then had 175 cases across 19 states and 11 fatalities across 2 states.

On March 9th, Trump tweeted "So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!"

At the time he tweeted this, there were 645 cases across 36 states and DC and 26 deaths across 3 states.

On March 10th, he said "it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away." We then had 936 cases across 38 states and DC and 31 deaths across 5 states.

And on March 13th, he tweeted "To this point, and because we have had a very strong border policy, we have had 40 deaths related to CoronaVirus. If we had weak or open borders, that number would be many times higher!"

At the time, the US had 10 times the cases Mexico has now.

By March 13th, the day Trump said “I don’t take responsibility at all," we had 2,163 cases across 49 states and the District and 49 lost lives across 8 states.

Today, every state and DC has double digits of cases except for West Virginia, which has 8.

Here's the thing about the spread of the virus. The two states that have the largest number of confirmed cases are New York and Washington.

Washington only had one case until late February. And New York didn't have its first until the beginning of March.

Time matters.