What's particularly impressive about this situation is that all the institutions on all sides got it wrong. Trump and his administration downplayed it, and Vox,

What's particularly impressive about this situation is that all the institutions on all sides got it wrong. Trump and his administration downplayed it, and Vox, Wapo, NYT et al downplayed it. You would think these two would act as a check on one another, but they completely failed to do so. The one time we needed them to disagree with each other, they agreed forcefully.