Posted on 04/02/2020 9:53:57 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
An ABC News investigation offers sobering insight into how COVID-19 has spread and penetrated so broadly, so deeply and so quickly in the United States.
Travel data of passengers arriving in the United States from China during the critical period in December, January and February, when the disease took hold in that country, shows a stunning 759,493 people entered the U.S.
"This is an astonishing number in a short period of time, illustrating how globalized our world has become. Just as people can hop continents with amazing ease, the infections they carry can too," said Dr. Vinayak Kumar, an internal medicine resident at the Mayo Clinic and a contributor to the ABC News Medical Unit.
While the majority of the travelers likely went to major population centers like New York, Seattle or Los Angeles, with so many arriving, any of the hundreds of thousands could have gone anywhere in the U.S.
Researchers from Johns Hopkins University said the outbreak could have started as far back as November, and that there may have been hundreds of cases in Wuhan by early December.
ABC News examined data from December, January and February on travelers entering the U.S. from eight of the hardest-hit countries: 343,402 arrived from Italy, 418,848 from Spain and about 1.9 million more came from Britain.
Combined with those from China, that's more than 3.4 million people from just four countries -- nearly half, about 1.5 million, Americans returning home. Travel from Italy and Spain wasn't shut down until March 13, with U.K. arrivals restricted a few days later.
Among the millions of travelers likely were a number of biological ticking time bombs, passengers who'd later infect others at a rate at least double that of the typical flu carrier.
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Surprises that ABC would publish this at all because I didn’t see any “Let’s hate Trump” passages.
One would have to be a complete fool not to realize we need to control our borders.
“Illustrating how our own open borders globalistic pimps like jorge bush, and company, have such total disregard for decent Americans.”
Oh come on now. This has NOTHING AT ALL to do with illegal immigration. This is normal commerce and personal travel. Surely you aren’t suggesting to not have international airports?
What is DOES do is put to bed the myth that Trump blew it by not testing earlier. How on earth would we have dealt with so many people? Impossible.
South Korea has 2 international airports to our approx. 150. Their testing-oriented approach worked because the problem was several orders of magnitude simpler than our problem. The response to this article is to say Trump didnt have a chance in hell to stop entry of the virus. Millions of early tests and we STILL would have dealt with it on a massive scale.
Yes ABC, you were part of the problem, as you have been since siding with Democrats on all things politically correct and anti-American.
Take your BS and peddle it in countries that are anti-America, you both deserve each other.
How many arrive in a normal year in those months?
“Trump tried to ban Iranians but some Odumbo judge struck it down.”
You’ll find the Holy Grail before you find that story in the MSM.
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Did ABC News investigation find out how many Chinese come in from Canada and other ports of entry?.
Another half a$$ed media investigation.
But they make all our goods, so what did I expect?............... Weak metal? Like nails that bend when struck by a hammer after 2 hits.
Zinc screws that crumble when you try to tighten them with a screwdriver. Maybe that's why so much of their office furniture uses Allen screws.
I’m pretty convinced we had Wuhan in our country in Dec/Jan but of course can’t prove it...
They can (and do) hop our southern border even more easily...
“ My family and friends there are just waiting until they can get tests that would show the flu-like symptoms they had, starting back as early as December, were actually Covid-19 that they had and got over with mostly mild symptoms, except for two that were severe but not critical, not needing hospitalization.”
Our son spent the week before Mardis Gras in New Orleans, flew back the Monday before. He had a bad cold, maybe some fever, and thinks it might have been the Coronavirus. He’s fine now except that all his gigs are gone.
How many came from Wuhan? Five million supposedly escaped.
“ This is normal commerce and personal travel. ”
If after this is over, we return to “normal” we’ve learned nothing.
Thanks Wicked Bitch of the West Peloser and Shitty Schiff. Shitty Schiff, as Chairman of the Intel Committee, did you read those Intel reports about China and the virus or were you too busy Impeaching? I want an investigation!
Go back to dimoRAT underground newbe.
Not only that, but they never seem to talk about what other countries were doing, and when.
When did Germany, France, etc., start restricting travel from China and other countries?
Is this the same thing as when the artillery fired off in Syria occurred in Kentucky?
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