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N Y Times needs to take credit their "missteps" in their reporting. Mostly just concerned with China US trade ramifications in this January piece.The U.S. Now Leads the World in Confirmed Coronavirus Cases (Published 2020)
Following a series of missteps, the nation is now the epicenter of the pandemic.www.nytimes.com
Trump Administration Restricts Entry Into U.S. From China (Published 2020)
The travel disruption sent shocks through the stock market and rattled industries that depend on the flow of goods and people between the world’s two largest economies.
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Trump Administration Restricts Entry Into U.S. From China
The travel disruption sent shocks through the stock market and rattled industries that depend on the flow of goods and people between the world’s two largest economies.
The United States will begin funneling all flights from China to just a few airports, including Kennedy International in New York. Credit...Johnny Milano for The New York Times
By Michael Corkery and Annie Karni
- Published Jan. 31, 2020
The government also imposed a two-week quarantine on 195 people who were evacuated on Wednesday from Wuhan, China, to a California military base.
Some public health and policy experts said the restrictions announced Friday, weeks after the virus was discovered in China, might not do as much officials hoped in containing the contagion.
At this point, sharply curtailing air travel to and from China is more of an emotional or political reaction, said Dr. Michael T. Osterholm, an epidemiologist and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
“The cow’s already out of the barn,” he said, ”and we’re now talking about shutting the barn door.”