“ ‘They should have been working on it for months! We knew about this when? December 31st, 2019. So last year we knew about this, we knew it was coming, we knew it was a respiratory disease, we knew it was person-to-person.’ ”

That’s infectious-disease physician Rishi Desai, chief medical officer at Osmosis, talking to Fox News host Martha MacCallum on Wednesday night about the shortcomings of the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

“Look at what South Korea did, and what we did. Their population is one-sixth of ours,” he said. “Look at the cases they have. Look at the mortality they have. It’s a trifle compared to what we’re dealing with right now because we’ve had a very weak response and they had a really strong response.”