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
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.
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.
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.
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?
Homeland Security is implementing several security measures at Border, Ports and Airports (TSA).
US medical doctors advising TSA at airports.
Coast guard dealing with incoming shipping
Presidents proclomation will assist US citizens in coming back to US after screening and quarantine.
Customs border protection will be at seven (7) airports for any funneling to :
JFK
Chicago Ohare
Seattle
Honolulu
Atlanta
San Fran
LAX
Questions now......gotta head to daycare to pick up kids. Good luck!
Demon-Craps are complaining about the group being all white males.
Wow the test in not 100%. They are trying to brief without creating a panic. I guess they are doing a good job.
90% white CNN complains WH pandemic task force shows Trumps lack of diversity...
https://mobile.twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1222964716320018436
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
bats are immune to ebola corona virus...thats what they were playing w in wuhan....this sht has a 2 wk incubation w No symptoms..can live for at least months in dried viral bricks on any surface...all production from china is suspect ...from 1 mo ago?....into the future.....just talked to 2 drs from china live here with family in china.....they said...1 the country is in chaos 2...the gov is lying ...3 the death toll in wuhan is at least 100k....paper money is verboden....all bank loans are suspended...they also said chinese here will not talk about it because they fear china gov. “action” against their families...i was getiing updates from the H. K. protestors .....videos have been shut down....as of 2 days ago.....when they were showing blood in the streets....bleed out symptoms..”like ebola”...that all I know...right now...as my net sources are gone.the drs i talked to in person ....1 hour ago.if anyone says I f..kn Word about my spelling i will not post again.all chna production...nike...wmt...maybe apple..is gone...suspect cannot be trusted clean.