COVID Response - What You Think Was a Misstep?

In many ways, the federal government and key officials dealing with the COVID response such as yourself were clearly not trusted by a significant portion of the population. Would you accept that you made some pretty significant missteps in the way you communicated your public health messages at the beginning and during the course of this pandemic response? Well, help me out. Tell me what you think was a misstep and then perhaps I can respond to it.