Posted on 02/26/2020 4:39:29 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
DES MOINES -- Following a top-secret briefing Tuesday morning, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, expressed confidence the United States is “on top of” efforts to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
That doesn’t mean the virus, which already has claimed about 2,700 lives, is contained, Grassley said during his weekly conference call with Iowa reporters.
“I don’t think that I could give Americans any certainty that it couldn’t crop up in the United States like it did in Italy over last weekend or 10 days ago in South Korea, where all of a sudden, you get an explosion of it,” Grassley said after joining more than a dozen senators at the briefing. Among those presenting information were the departments of State, Health and Human Services and Homeland Security, National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration.
Officials scrambled Tuesday to halt the spread of the burgeoning virus, from northern Italy, where troops were dispatched to enforce quarantines and schools were shuttered, to South Korea, where some neighborhoods in a city of 2.5 million were brought to a near standstill.
In Italy, where more than 200 people were sickened, a dozen towns were sealed off and police patrolled wearing face masks.
In South Korea, the caseload has grown to 977 people sickened by coronavirus.
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PING!
Has Grassley been talking with Schumer?
These seems to be some kind of disconnect within the Senate.
Whew!! Okay, Chuck...thanks....I feel MUCH better, now. 🙃
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My millennial son works for USPS and is president of the local union. They have not received any information or protocols to follow. While we live in a Oregon area of approximately 250,000, there is a Chinese population, more importantly, a large group of affluent Chinese nationals at a nearby private school.
I don’t understand the mixed messages.
Well, since he was around during the Spanish Flu, maybe he has some suggestions. WTH?
China had an outbreak of African Swine flu that decimated nearly 70% of their sounder of Swine. We did not because of our better practices. The same with covid-19. We will be ok. Those with compromised immune systems need to take precautions. Use common sense
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