http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1209646.shtml
Italy potentially had COVID-19 outbreak 'earlier than Wuhan', study shows
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"There is a series of evidence on coronavirus being found in Italy before December 2019, including the latest regarding a 4-year-old boy found to have contracted the virus in November 2019, which some experts believe indicates that a COVID-19 outbreak occurred in Italy earlier than in China's Wuhan, which recorded the earliest COVID-19 symptoms from a patient on December 8, 2019 and has since been labeled as the origin of the virus by some Western countries. ..."
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The samples and swabs taken from patients with an unusual respiratory disease in Italy in Nov - Dec 2019 were only confirmed to be Covid-19 months later, after the genetic tests became available.
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Trump's China travel ban was too little, too late. As implemented, it was totally porous with many exceptions to allow entry. Over 40,000 people entered the US from China in the early days of the travel "ban". Experts who knew about the Milan, Italy outbreak had recommended shutting down entry from Europe but Trump didn't want to piss off non-Chinese countries. Trump eventually banned some EU travel weeks later, once again, too little, too late, with a lot of porosity for thousands of travelers coming to the US.
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The thing is, Trump received security briefs in January about the extraordinary danger of Covid-19. As he explained to Woodward, he downplayed it because he didn't want to cause a panic.
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http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-told-bob-woodward-he-knew-february-covid-19-was-n1239658
"Woodward details that Trump was briefed on the virus in January. "This is deadly stuff," Trump told Woodward in a Feb. 7 phone call. “You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed,” Trump told Woodward, according to The Post. “And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flu.”
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"The book says Trump was given dire warnings in January about the virus that would lead to a worldwide pandemic in March."
Posted By: LostSon
let's discuss how the virus got into the country and spread.
This article explains how patient zero did EVERYTHING right, the medical response was beyond exemplary. They put the guy in an isolation unit designed to hold EBOLA patients and the contact traced 60 people he had come in contact with and none of them came down with it. Then cases began to show up in Nursing homes in the Seattle area. ...
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The travel bans, as implemented, were symbolic only. They were both (China; EU) too little (too porous), too late (infected travelers had probably already been entering the US from China and EU).
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Trump "not wanting to cause a panic" is a ridiculous defense as fear-mongering is his stock in trade. Muslim terrorists! Violent immigrants! MS-13! Drugs! Biden will destroy the suburbs! They'll take your guns! Only I can fix it! Only I can fix it! ... Years earlier, Trump bought full page newspaper ads calling for The death penalty for the Central Park 5 ... who were subsequently exonerated.
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"I didn't want to cause a panic." is a heaping pile of shit.