Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin became concerned about the novel coronavirus toward the end of January, while attending the annual World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland. covid-19 was spreading rapidly in China, and authorities had closed off Wuhan, the city where the outbreak started. The theme at Davos was sustainability, but Mnuchin was surprised that no one was talking about the eleven million people under lockdown. “I was at a C.E.O. dinner, and I actually brought it up,†he recalled recently. “But, at the time I raised this as a risk, I did not see it travelling around the world.â€
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