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Corona arrived within a three week window

JamieDimonsBalls

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The spark that started the U.S. coronavirus epidemic arrived during a three-week window from mid-January to early February, before the nation halted travel from China, according to the most comprehensive federal study to date of when the virus began spreading.

That means anyone in the U.S. who thought they had the virus in December or early January probably had the flu, public health researchers said.

Some people have claimed Americans were getting sick from the coronavirus as early as November and that infections were spreading in the U.S. before any case was identified, said Dr. Robert Redfield, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
 
It was a good idea to shut down travel from China, but even the shutdown allowed over 40,000 Americans to re-enter from China. It was the right thing to allow these Americans to come home, but if Trump thought he was slamming the front door, he was slamming a screen door.

Meanwhile, he didn’t shut down travel from Europe until March 11. And the reports I read say that both the outbreak in New York and most of the cases in the US came from Europe. Thus while slamming a screen door in front, he left the back door wide open.

And of course the whole point of a travel ban is to buy time to do all the things Trump hasn’t done and plainly won’t do. If we’d acted a week or two earlier, tens of thousands of people wouldn’t have died. Now we’re just muddling through with 100,000 dead and rising.
 
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