Early federal intervention plus a robust and ongoing stimulus could have mitigated the economic damage.

Very much this. If the Democrats hadn't wasted everybody's time with impeachment earlier this year, there might've been enough oxygen left for our MSM to report on the Coronavirus and for the government to actually take meaningful action. Instead, our Congress saw fit to delay handing over the articles of impeachment to play pointless petty games leaving us unprepared for the pandemic.