Yes and by then it was way too late to contain the virus. It was no longer locally controllable.
Apparently , unlike Biden during the Obama Presidency, Trump did never read the history of pandemics like the Black Death pandemic in Europe .
The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Afro-Eurasia from 1346 to 1353. It is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, causing the death of 75–200 million people in Eurasia and North Africa, peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351. Wikipedia
and H1N1 flu pandemic in the US.
WASHINGTON – President Obama has upped the ante in the battle to control the H1N1 flu by declaring it a national emergency, the second such declaration since the flu first emerged last spring.
The White House said the proclamation, which was signed late Friday, will allow public health agencies as well as doctors and hospitals to bypass certain requirements, but details about how that will transfer into clinical practice are not clear.
The proclamation notes that the declaration is a precautionary measure, "given that the rapid increase in illness across the Nation may overburden healthcare resources and that the temporary waiver of certain standard Federal requirements may be warranted in order to enable U.S. healthcare facilities to implement emergency operations plans.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/swineflu/16606
If you inherit a pandemic, there is not much you can do except recommend best practice, like wearing masks and vaccinations to build resistance to the virus and its variations.
To blame Biden for anything that was started during the Trump presidency is a cheap shot and not only unfair, it is dangerous to the security and safety of the Country.
That is what sedition, treason, and insurrections are made of.
Instead of a total cooperative effort by the population to conquer the invisible enemy there is an attempt for a concerted opportunistic power grab when the Nation is in chaos and people are too misinformed to make intelligent decisions.
The effort to discredit the Biden-Harris leadership is beyond contempt.
I am disgusted to see such shallow commitment to the concepts that have made this country great. Then to claim there is an effort to make this great country great again under the leadership of a psychopathic con-man, who will hopefully soon be convicted of seditious conduct and tax-evasion and supported by Nationalist factions like the neo-Nazis, and Southern segregationists is in direct conflict with the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Having witnessed the rise to power by Adolf Hitler and the subsequent world turmoil, I cannot help but draw direct comparisons with what is happening today. My heart aches.