Come on Vagabond, you're better than this. Step by step, Trump involved the best experts on the matter he could gather much sooner than other world leaders. He immediately implemented their recommendations and banned entry from China and instituted a quarantine program so that US citizens could come home and get treatment if they needed it among numerous other measures to protect health.
What did the press do? They criticized Trump because the experts were all white. WTF? Political China is seldom truthful, so as small bits of information trickled out the administration made adjustments. With support from the CDC and other agencies, a private company fast tracked an innovative vaccine that doesn't require the time required for vaccines based on live virus cultures, and the testing for that vaccine has been fast tracked within the bounds of safe practices. As the face of the administration working on the potential for a widespread epidemic, Trump got ripped politically by Schumer, Pelosi and others who sought to benefit politically by saying "Dumb, idiot, too late, incompetent, killer bigot homophobe racist misogynist hater Nazi, narcissistic greedy enriching Russian agent liar gonna kill us all Trump to create panic and delude the public. Guess what? More people died from driving and texting than have died from Covid-19 since we became aware of it. More people have died from the flu in that same time period, more people have died from falls.
You are better than this, that's why I've developed respect for your opinions. Get your helpful advice from the CDC website, from your local health department, from your doctor. The Surgeon General and Trump's band of idiots have made that available as soon as they knew what they were dealing with and update it as knowledge is increased.
I hate the propgandistic media, I hate Democrats (and Mitt Romney) who are willing to say anything they think might hurt Trump, even if it hurts the citizens of the US. I hate Chuck Schumer for his acidic self serving rhetoric.