In 2017, a journalist predicted that Trump's Hurricane Katrina would be 'a deadly pandemic.' He tells us why he made that prediction.

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• In 2017, Wired writer Steve Silberman predicted that "Trump's Katrina will be a deadly pandemic."
• A best-selling author, Silberman told Business Insider that it was his expertise on autism — which President Donald Trump once incorrectly suggested is caused by vaccines — that led to his prediction.
• "Obviously, having been so on-the-nose with this tweet three years ago is cold comfort now that a deadly pandemic is upon us," he said.
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More than 1,800 people died as a direct result of Hurricane Katrina, and at least 12,9000 Americans have died due to COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. 

The 2005 hurricane, and the anemic response from the federal government — to a disaster it had been warned was impending — spelled the end of then-President George W. Bush's political capital. Now many are wondering in an election year: could his slow response to the current pandemic spell the end of Donald Trump's presidency?

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