He still refuses to see the threat of the virus, and only focuses on the business side. People getting ill is not a great business...
When you had people like Fauci lying for a year and advising the administration with these lies, it makes things difficult. The Coronavirus task force was listing to partisan hacks who were willing to lie to their bosses. All the items below (plus many more) were what the "scientific experts" were telling the task force.
If you recall, first Fauci lied about "you don't need masks" until late spring/summer 2020. He admitted it saying lied to conserve masks for others. Eventually he came clean and said masks "only protected others". Then (by November 2020), he said it didn't just protect others, it protected you also. Shortly thereafter he said two masks were better. All those are on video.
Fauci and other so-called experts were saying as late as late (and mid) February 2020 - and advising the administration - to "skip the mask and wash hands" and that the risk to the US was "minuscule". They were also attacking Trump for the Jan 2020 travel ban and advising (a) it wasn't necessary and (b) shouldn't be expanded. All on video.
You also had people like Cuomo, Bill D in NY and similar characters in CA saying it was "xenophobic" and "racist" to stay away from crowds, restaurants, parades, and parties in February and March 2020. They were advising people to go out and eat and "live your lives."
Now imagine if Trump had had the support of the US House and US Senate, and fired these experts, completely shut down air travel unless there was a 2 week quarantine in January of 2020 instead of only doing China in January 2020. The same people who said he was racist, xenophobic and anti-science for doing it from China would've raised more hell anyway, claimed he was still "anti-science" and things would've been different, but the political nature of the NY and CA governors and House prevented more stringent measures since they were unwilling to work with the administration, only knee-jerk oppose them.
In short, anyone who is solely blaming the Trump admin is misinformed, a partisan hack, and/or has an anti-liberty, pro-authoritarian agenda.