Posted on 04/08/2020 9:37:38 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
An ABC News joint investigation with its owned television stations sheds new light on the likely flow of the coronavirus from global hotspots into the U.S. and provides a glimpse the toll the virus has taken on some of the first Americans to interact with international travelers: airport workers. From December 2019 through March 2020, as severe outbreaks cropped up in China and then Italy and Spain, among others, thousands of flights from the hard-hit nations poured into U.S. cities, according to an ABC News analysis of more than 20 million flight records obtained from the tracking service Flightradar-24.
While it is unclear the precise number of passengers into the U.S. who were infected with the coronavirus, the medical experts told ABC News such a huge pool of people virtually assures that a number had the highly contagious disease. “In the case of coronavirus, you have the interface of a virus that spreads this quickly,” Dr. John Brownstein, an epidemiologist at Boston’s Children’s Hospital and ABC News contributor said.
The data shows that 3,200 flights flew from China to the U.S., including more than 1,000 flights that went to Los Angeles and nearly 500 each landed in San Francisco and New York – all three among the eventual hot spots of the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. More than 100 flights from China arrived in six other American cities: Chicago, Seattle, Detroit, Dallas, Washington, D.C., and Newark, N.J. According to travel data previously obtained by ABC News, those flights translated to more than 761,000 Chinese nationals entering the U.S. and Americans returning home from the People’s Republic of China during that critical four-month period.
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Townhall, March 14: "On January 31st, when Trump suspended the entry of all non-US citizens coming from China, Biden attacked Trump as racist. 'This is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria and xenophobia – hysterical xenophobia – and fearmongering to lead the way instead of science.'”
Townhall, March 14: "Biden attacked Trump as 'racist' for retweeting a reference to COVID-19 as the 'China virus.' And again, during Biden’s address on the disease on Thursday, he repeated the condemnation. Saying that 'Labeling COVID-19 as a foreign virus' was 'xenophobia.'"
Never NEVER forget that Noo Yawk let in planes from IRAN after Trump banned them.
Hopefully were learned some lessons.
They didn’t learn lessons. They executed the plan.
The liberal mindset:
Trump is thinking about restricting international travel. That’s racist!
One minute later: Trump should have restricted international travel weeks ago. He’s incompetent!
Does the media really think it can rewrite history that happened just a couple of months ago?
There was no mention of Vancouver which has a large chinese population. Less than an hours flight from Seattle. I really don’t believe that the virus arrived in December. When you look at the US infection curves, they show that some infections could have been in the very early fall. Considering that we weren’t looking for a Wuhan Flu until later and considering that symptoms can be mild, it’s entirely possible that it was too late to close the barn door by mid fall.
Biden’s replacement can have zero references and no hint of opposition to Trumps travel ban or they are toast. Does that Democrat politician even exist???
I want to see some demographics along with the raw numbers.
This is racist.
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“learned some lessons”
Lesson #1: Trump is a RACIST.
Lesson #2: Trump is a XENOPHOBE.
(yes, /s)
How many infected Chinese/? flew into SF, LA and NY city in November?
The anecdotal data/info is a lot of us in California/West Coast caught something in late November/December and took weeks to shake it.
Then it went east.
"Never to admit a fault or wrong; never to accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time; blame that enemy for everything that goes wrong; take advantage of every opportunity to raise a political whirlwind"
"Analysis of the Personality of Adolph Hitler: With Predictions of His Future Behaviour and Suggestions for Dealing with Him Now and After Germany's Surrender," by Henry A. Murray, October 1943.
My wife got some mysterious malady last week of October and first week of November (San Francisco Peninsula). I was out of town and missed it. She’s never been so sick - so bad our kids were worried.
Nor does it mention how ABC News, other news organization, nor any Democrat who was impeaching the president at the time for no good reason, said a word about this.
Still believe China seeded the USA deliberately.
And every one of those listed cities are one or two hops from the rest of the USA.
Or how President Trump discussed it in the SOTU speech that the witch ripped up.
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