Looking for COVID-19 Timelines (Vanity)

Looking for links to or how to find good timelines on comments and actions regarding the COVID-19 pandemic in the US. Interested in politician, media personalities, and expert comments and actions from DEC to present. Have located President Trump's and the White House timeline online already. Design is to compare and contrast.

This is a timeline I started making:

mainly january

Trump covid timeline January

the Chinese government likely learned of the new virus in Wuhan, it first informed the World Health Organization (WHO) that there was an outbreak on December 31st, 2019.
Even though the Chinese offered the WHO assurances that the disease had not spread from person to person—which was almost certainly a lie—on December 31st, Taiwan raised concerns with the organization that it had found evidence of human-to-human transmission.

The following day—New Year’s Day, 2020—Chinese health officials closed the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan and ban all sales of live animals.
Within a week, on January 6th, the Trump Administration first started raising concerns over the virus as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a travel notice for Wuhan.

“Illness with this virus has ranged from mild to severe,” the CDC’s website read. “Signs and symptoms of infection include fever, cough, and trouble breathing. This new coronavirus has caused severe disease and death in patients who developed pneumonia. Risk factors for severe illness are not yet clear, although older adults and people of any age with serious chronic medical conditions are at higher risk for severe illness.”

The next day, the CDC set up its coronavirus incident management system in an effort to follow the spread of the disease across Wuhan and share information with Americans who might have to travel to the region.

Four days later, on January 11th, the CDC upped its warning about Wuhan to a Level I travel health notice, urging Americans to “practice enhanced precautions” against a virus about which it was growing increasingly concerned.

At the same time, however, the WHO was downplaying the threat that coronavirus posed. Based solely on inaccurate information from the Chinese government, the WHO on January 14th tweeted that it had seen “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus.”

Even though it had received a warning from Taiwan two weeks earlier that there was evidence of human-to-human transmission, and even though Thailand reported the first case of the virus outside of China on the 14th—all but proving human-to-human transmission—the WHO spread Chinese disinformation anyway.
The CDC, fortunately, wasn’t nearly as naive and started screening passengers entering the United States from Wuhan at international airports in New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco on January 17th.

Three days later, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that several teams of doctors were already working on a potential coronavirus vaccine.

“The NIH is in the process of taking the first steps towards the development of a vaccine,” NIH director Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN, which further reported that:
A team of scientists in Texas, New York and China are also at work on a vaccine, according to Dr. Peter Hotez, a vaccine scientist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

January 6: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a travel notice for Wuhan, China due to the spreading coronavirus.

January 7: The CDC established a coronavirus incident management system to better share and respond to information about the virus.

January 11: The CDC issued a Level I travel health notice for Wuhan, China.

January 17: The CDC began implementing public health entry screening at the 3 U.S. airports that received the most travelers from Wuhan – San Francisco, New York JFK, and Los Angeles.

January 20: Dr Fauci announces the National Institutes of Health is already working on the development of a vaccine for the coronavirus.

January 21: The CDC activated its emergency operations center to provide ongoing support to the coronavirus response.

January 23: The CDC sought a “special emergency authorization” from the FDA to allow states to use its newly developed coronavirus test.

January 27: The CDC issued a level III travel health notice urging Americans to avoid all nonessential travel to China due to the coronavirus.

January 29: The White House announced the formation of the Coronavirus Task Force to help monitor and contain the spread of the virus and provide updates to the President.

January 31: The Trump Administration:
- Declared the coronavirus a public health emergency.
- Announced Chinese travel restrictions.
- Suspended entry into the United States for foreign nationals who pose a risk of transmitting the coronavirus.
- The Department of Homeland Security took critical steps to funnel all flights from China into just 7 domestic U.S. airports.

I think the day people went nuts here was March 11th.
That was the day a single profession basketball player was diagnosed and the NBA stopped the game (the Utah Jazz and Oklahoma City Thunder) and the next day canceled the ENTIRE season, as well as the NCAA March Madness tournament also was canceled.

And then right on cue:

Dr. Anthony Fauci was responding to a question asked by Rep. Glenn Grothman, a Wisconsin Republican, “is the NBA underreacting or is the Ivy League overreacting?” Grothman was referencing how the Ivy League recently cancelled its basketball tournaments, instead of having them without fans or keeping the status quo.

“We would recommend that there not be large crowds,” Fauci said. “If that means not having any people in the audience when the NBA plays, so be it. But as a public health official, anything that has crowds is something that would give a risk to spread.”

Then cancellations started left and right, and within a few days even Major League Baseball canceled opening day!

Cities and states also started jumping on the bandwagon.

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