Posted on 01/31/2020 12:43:53 PM PST by DCBryan1
Live from WH press room. Running a little behind.
Key Points
The Trump administration will hold a briefing about the coronavirus outbreak Friday afternoon at the White House.
It will involve members of President Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force, which includes national security advisor Robert O’Brien, Health Secretary Alex Azar and other leading officials.
It is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. ET.
You can watch it here.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
Earlier Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quarantined 195 Americans who have been evacuated from Wuhan, China.
Also Friday, U.S. airlines including Delta, United and American announced they would suspend all remaining service to mainland China after a State Department warning put a damper on demand for flights there.
Airlines have said ticket sales for China have dropped sharply, a trend that will likely dent their first-quarter revenues.
Dozens of other large U.S. corporations, including Apple, Ford and Kraft Heinz, have already restricted their employees’ China business travel or scaled back operations because of the outbreak.
Here are the members of the 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
Up first: Dr. Robert Redfield, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
PING
Man, it’s like our President is still doing his job instead of breathlessly waiting to find out if Mitt Romney backstab him. Putting the country before politics.
I’m still not used to that.
So someone is talking about asymptomatic cases ...
Yep.
Azar just declared that this virus poses an international health threat to USA.
Will implement measures, tonight.
Yes and earlier the CDC ordered a 14 day quarantine on the evacuees from WUHAN.
8000 influenza deaths currently in US with 100k hospitalizations
Issue of Coronavirus is "alot of unknowns"
Asymptomatic infections are very possible and confirmed
Secondary cases becoming more prominent whereas it was unknown before
Still a low risk to American public
Still alot of unknowns
Need to take action to mitigate.
Trump poll numbers going up
Are you listening to this LIVE presser??
Wow, they are stepping up.
The democrats will be pissed Trump got ahead of this.
Seems like it is maybe starting, to warrant a real reaction, stateside.
We need a transcript of entire presser.
Will look for one, at WH site, later and will post if I find it.
That’ll be the day when I give CNBC a hit.
Monitoring events and giving advice to diplomats and Americans
Identifying risk and access to essential healthcare.
China has excellent healthcare but is overwhelmed
US citizens may face barriers to travel due to China, so giving advice to citizens and US empolyeess
Assisting US citizens in China with up to date information and recommendations.
Working close with China and other countries.
Deep compassion for China and lost citizens
Extending all types of logistics and intel to help Chinese "get their arms around this issue".
How long until a federal judge puts an injunction on this, I wonder?
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