At least post a source for such a claim. M understanding is that they managed. to act relatively good, given the information and circumstances.
The "big switch" was 14to 15 of March. The MSN here ran a fake story about Trump wanting to buy some German pharma company (all large newspapers retracted the story around March 17), but it was enough to get people sufficiently distracted to completely change their previous policy.
It was pretty interesting to watch how it was orchestered.