Intelligence Reports Warned Of Coronavirus Pandemic Long Before Trump Admin Took It Seriously

[mystery-ak]

Anders Hagstrom
White House Correspondent
March 21, 2020 7:13 PM ET


Intelligence reports given to President Donald Trump’s administration in January and February pointed to coronavirus becoming a “globe-encircling pandemic” long before Trump took action to prevent it from spreading in the U.S., the Washington Post reported Saturday.

Members of Congress and the Trump administration were receiving the reports even as high-level members of both the Republican and Democratic parties were downplaying the disease. Critically, however, the reports did not make any estimates of when the virus might spread to the U.S., or make suggestions for how to prepare, according to WaPo, which accepted money from the Chinese government for advertising inserts.

As the reports flowed in through January and February, Trump himself declared that the virus was “contained” and that the U.S. faced only some risk of it spreading.

“It will all work out well,” he tweeted on January 24.

When 15 cases appeared in the U.S. a month later, Trump continued to downplay the threat.

“When you have 15 people, and the 15, within a couple of days, is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done,” he said February 27th.

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[PeteS in CA]

Seriously?

Intelligence reports given to President Donald Trump’s administration in January and February pointed to coronavirus becoming a “globe-encircling pandemic” long before Trump took action to prevent it from spreading in the U.S., the Washington Post reported Saturday.

This wasn't "action to prevent it from spreading in the U.S.": The US started screening arriving passengers from China; January 17, 2020, JFK, SFO, LAX https://www.businessinsider.com/new-disease-virus-china-us-airports-screening-cdc-2020-1 ; O'Hare and Hartsfield-Jackson January 22, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/01/21/us-screenings-coronavirus-expanded-airports-atlanta-chicago/ ?

This wasn't "action to prevent it from spreading in the U.S.": State Department raised the travel advisory for China to Level 4, do not travel; January 31, 2020, https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-flight-ban-delta-cuts-all-flights-white-house/4620989002/ ?

This wasn't "action to prevent it from spreading in the U.S.": People entering the US from China forbidden; Announced January 31, 2020, effective February 2, 2020, https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/02/us/coronavirus-us-travel-restrictions/index.html ? This effectively ended flights from and to China, for obvious reasons.

The WashPost lied. Unsurprisingly.

[truth_seeker]

What did the CIA, State Dept., NSA etc contribute to recognition?

These types are "experts" and that entails analysis, prioritization, etc.

Bay of Pigs, USSR failing, 9-11-2001 are just a few failures, by our "Intelligence" community.

[libertybele]

I thought that this issue was addressed in the last presser and Trump stated that the information was false. He acted in spite of others telling him that he was jumping the gun.

[PeteS in CA]

https://pjmedia.com/trending/fake-news-wapo-claims-trump-ignored-early-intel-briefings-on-possible-pandemic/

FAKE NEWS: WaPo Claims Trump Ignored Early Intel Briefings on Possible Pandemic
BY MATT MARGOLIS MARCH 21, 2020

A new hit piece from the Washington Post claims that intelligence agencies issued warnings about a possible pandemic back in January and February, “while President Trump and lawmakers played down the threat and failed to take action that might have slowed the spread of the pathogen.”

This allegation is easily refuted by the facts. China reported the discovery of the coronavirus to the World Health Organization (WHO) on December 31, 2019, and the CDC mobilized immediately. They issued a travel notice for Wuhan, China, and established a coronavirus incident management system within the first week. By the end of the month, the CDC had already:

* Implemented public health entry screening at the most at-risk airports

*Activated its emergency operations center to provide ongoing support for the coronavirus response

*Sought a “special emergency authorization” from the FDA to allow states to use its newly developed coronavirus test

*The National Institutes of Health was already working on the development of a vaccine

*A Coronavirus Task Force was set up by the White House

*The coronavirus was declared a public health emergency

*Foreign nationals posing a risk of transmitting the coronavirus were barred from entering the United States

As the possibility of an effective treatment being released in late summer looms large, it looks like the MSM are trying to memory-hole Trump Administration actions, leaving the release of a treat as some sort of random magical uncaused event. I don't think that tack is going to rescue their dying Katrina-ization attempt.

[Cyber Liberty]

What did the CIA, State Dept., NSA etc contribute to recognition?

These types are "experts" and that entails analysis, prioritization, etc.

Bay of Pigs, USSR failing, 9-11-2001 are just a few failures, by our "Intelligence" community.

I would not trust any analysis generated by a bunch of bureaucrats who still pledge their loyalty to Brennan and/or Clapper.

[libertybele]

I would not trust any analysis generated by a bunch of bureaucrats who still pledge their loyalty to Brennan and/or Clapper.

 

[dfwgator]

Fauci said after the 2009 Pandemic the government would take steps to make sure they were ready for the next one.

Obama had seven years to do something, and they didn't do a damn thing.

[skeeter]

Fauci said after the 2009 Pandemic the government would take steps to make sure they were ready for the next one.

Obama had seven years to do something, and they didn't do a damn thing.

Yes, that is the untold story here.

Like all the other accountabilities he's evaded, the Purple Lipped Prince will skate

[DB]

Seriously?

This wasn't "action to prevent it from spreading in the U.S.": The US started screening arriving passengers from China; January 17, 2020, JFK, SFO, LAX https://www.businessinsider.com/new-disease-virus-china-us-airports-screening-cdc-2020-1 ; O'Hare and Hartsfield-Jackson January 22, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/01/21/us-screenings-coronavirus-expanded-airports-atlanta-chicago/ ?

This wasn't "action to prevent it from spreading in the U.S.": State Department raised the travel advisory for China to Level 4, do not travel; January 31, 2020, https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-flight-ban-delta-cuts-all-flights-white-house/4620989002/ ?

This wasn't "action to prevent it from spreading in the U.S.": People entering the US from China forbidden; Announced January 31, 2020, effective February 2, 2020, https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/02/us/coronavirus-us-travel-restrictions/index.html ? This effectively ended flights from and to China, for obvious reasons.

The WashPost lied. Unsurprisingly.

That screening unfortunately was mostly useless. It was more of a feel good measure than one that would actually stop it. Measuring peoples temperature only flags the ones that are symptomatic and well on their way of being sick. Many who were infected walked right on through. The other problem is we let people travel from China indirectly via other countries. So blocking the direct route was very limited in stopping the Chinese flow into this country.

We are way past that point now.

[catfish1957]

Fauci said after the 2009 Pandemic the government would take steps to make sure they were ready for the next one.

Obama had seven years to do something, and they didn't do a damn thing.

Good luck getting that out into the MSM news cycle queue.....

[austingirl]

Fauci told everyone to "take precautions" during the 2009 H1N1 outbreak. 60 million cases, 300K hospitalizations, 12,459 deaths. At the time H1N1 was a new virus and there was no vaccine.

[skeeter]

Fauci told everyone to "take precautions" during the 2009 H1N1 outbreak. 60 million cases, 300K hospitalizations, 12,459 deaths. At the time H1N1 was a new virus and there was no vaccine.

Levin interviewed him for his weekend show. I wish he’d ask him about it.

Maybe this is why Fauci keeps going on as if Coronavirus is a one of a kind apocalyptic event.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

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[jafo2010]

You mean the same MFers that tried to oust Trump via a coup, or impeachment, and God knows what they are cooking up next!!!

The intelligence community should not be trusted, and for good reason.  Most of them should be purged, the FBI folded into Homeland with everyone above first level supervision rifted.  The CIA should also undergo a major purge.  These people are NOT to be trusted.  THEY EARNED THAT!!!

[PeteS in CA]

That screening unfortunately was mostly useless. It was more of a feel good measure than one that would actually stop it. Measuring peoples temperature only flags the ones that are symptomatic and well on their way of being sick. Many who were infected walked right on through. The other problem is we let people travel from China indirectly via other countries. So blocking the direct route was very limited in stopping the Chinese flow into this country.
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  Imperfect is far from useless. Every symptomatic infected person "caught" represents dozens or scores of persons not exposed. Similarly, infected persons unable to enter the US or shunted into quarantine represent hundreds of persons not exposed to corona virus, and Americans who have been unable to fly to China averted the risk of being exposed there and then coming home and exposing folks here in the US.

Nitpick as you like, there are thousands of Americans who were not exposed and not infected due to Trump's swift actions that were imperfect, and were also ahead of the imperfect "knowledge" available at the time.

[Hoodat]

The Washington Post lies.

[PeteS in CA]

Fauci said after the 2009 Pandemic the government would take steps to make sure they were ready for the next one.

Obama had seven years to do something, and they didn't do a damn thing.

Back during GWB's second term processes were begun to create a national emergency stockpile of things like respirator masks. However complete that stockpile may have been when the H1N1 pandemic happened in 2009-2010, the Obama Administration distributed from it, IIRC, on the order of 100M such masks. The stockpile was not replenished despite advice that it be.

[DB]

Imperfect is far from useless. Every symptomatic infected person "caught" represents dozens or scores of persons not exposed. Similarly, infected persons unable to enter the US or shunted into quarantine represent hundreds of persons not exposed to corona virus, and Americans who have been unable to fly to China averted the risk of being exposed there and then coming home and exposing folks here in the US.

Nitpick as you like, there are thousands of Americans who were not exposed and not infected due to Trump's swift actions that were imperfect, and were also ahead of the imperfect "knowledge" available at the time.

Well I won't disagree with that regarding thousands of people, but the goal was to keep it out of the country. Once in the country it was going to spread to a large number of people one way or another. The methods used to keep it out of the country had gigantic holes that did not keep it out of the country. So yes, what was done won a few battles but lost the war.

I'm not saying the war was winnable because I don't think it was in an open free society. But what was done had no real chance of keeping it out. So in truth it was essentially for show. I do recognize the appearance of doing something is important in politics but that's all it was. Either you block it from entering by really closing the borders or it spreads out of control due to the open gaps.

It has in fact spread out of control.

[skeeter]

Back during GWB's second term processes were begun to create a national emergency stockpile of things like respirator masks. However complete that stockpile may have been when the H1N1 pandemic happened in 2009-2010, the Obama Administration distributed from it, IIRC, on the order of 100M such masks. The stockpile was not replenished despite advice that it be.

Further demonstrating that rats are always reluctant to spend money where there is no political benefit to be had. They are uniformly unfit to lead a city, let alone a state or a nation.

[DB]

Further demonstrating that rats are always reluctant to spend money where there is no political benefit to be had. They are uniformly unfit to lead a city, let alone a state or a nation.

More likely because there weren't any high level government people connected to the mask industry to direct money towards.

[PeteS in CA]

[roamer_1]

Nitpick as you like, there are thousands of Americans who were not exposed and not infected due to Trump's swift actions that were imperfect, and were also ahead of the imperfect "knowledge" available at the time.

No, you're looking at it bass-ackwards. With a virulent strain, all it takes is ONE vector going unnoticed, because once it is in the gate, it will do the very same thing as a thousand vectors stopped...

You may as well try to claim that Tump stopped the common cold - Literally.
And we all know that ain't so.

[roamer_1]

Well I won't disagree with that regarding thousands of people [...]

I will. Exponential virulence can do the same thing from one infection as from a thousand. Within a matter of days in the wild, the fact of stopping the thousand is negated by the one.

You may as well try to stop the wind.

[roamer_1]

Both you guys are geeks. Both of you ought to know that one promiscuous server can do behind a firewall.  Both of you should be able to envision what one LAN aware infection can do if allowed to execute.

That is infinitely less complicated than trying to guard against infection IRL.