Posted on 01/30/2020 9:19:31 PM PST by ransomnote
Today, President Donald J. Trump announced the formation of the President’s Coronavirus Task Force. Members of the Task Force have been meeting on a daily basis since Monday. At today’s meeting, which the President chaired, he charged the Task Force with leading the United States Government response to the novel 2019 coronavirus and with keeping him apprised of developments.
The Task Force is led by Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, and is coordinated through the National Security Council. It is composed of subject matter experts from the White House and several United States Government agencies, and it includes some of the Nation’s foremost experts on infectious diseases.
The Task Force will lead the Administration’s efforts to monitor, contain, and mitigate the spread of the virus, while ensuring that the American people have the most accurate and up-to-date health and travel information.
The President’s top priority is the health and welfare of the American people. That is why, in 2018, President Trump signed the National Biodefense Strategy, which improves speed of action in situations such as this. The Administration, led by the President’s Task Force, will continue to work to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus.
The risk of infection for Americans remains low, and all agencies are working aggressively to monitor this continuously evolving situation and to keep the public informed. For more information, please visit CDC.gov.
Members of the President’s Coronavirus Task Force:
Secretary Alex Azar, Department of Health and Human Services
Robert O’Brien, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
Dr. Robert Redfield, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health
Deputy Secretary Stephen Biegun, Department of State
Ken Cuccinelli, Acting Deputy Secretary, Department of Homeland Security
Joel Szabat, Acting Under Secretary for Policy, Department of Transportation
Matthew Pottinger, Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor
Rob Blair, Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to the Chief of Staff
Joseph Grogan, Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council
Christopher Liddell, Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Coordination
Derek Kan, Executive Associate Director, Office of Management and Budget
Coronavirus might be result of attempt to produce biological weapon AniNews.in04:57
https://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/coronavirus-might-be-result-of-attempt-to-produce-biological-weapon-by-china-says-saamana20200131102121/
A man lies dead in the street: the image that captures the Wuhan coronavirus crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/31/a-man-lies-dead-in-the-street-the-image-that-captures-the-wuhan-coronavirus-crisis
Developing a biological weapon of mass destruction seems rather counterproductive. A germ that could get out and kill your own population is crazy.
Yeah. I would think they’d be smart enough to develop a vaccine against it for their own people first. But then, maybe they’d planned to do that next. Or yes, maybe it went from bat to civet cat to people. Don’t know.
He’s not the only one you can find videos of other people lying dead in the street on Twitter.
True. I’ve seen quite a few videos sent through VPNs from Wuhan and have much respect for those who sent them. The situation there is very bad, even though everything is locked down. Wuhan is a large ghost city, indeed, with so many people staying at home for so many days. Some have no doubt run out of food.
Here are some other videos of people just lying dead or dying on the ground:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1223298342593024001
https://twitter.com/i/status/1223273085975126016
https://twitter.com/i/status/1223276598239072263
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