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"The numbers are clearly alarming."
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. It also helps explain why Americans, no matter where they live, must continue to heed the warnings of health officials to self distance and why the virus likely was here far earlier than first realized.
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.
"The numbers are clearly alarming," Dr. Simone Wildes, an infectious disease specialist at South Shore Health, told ABC News. "It shows that globalization is here, and we have to be better prepared to deal with the impact this will have on all our lives in so many ways."
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Why didn't shitler stop flights? HE KNEW! 🤬
underpants
(182,769 posts)He didn't stop Americans from going to China - probably bound to return
He didn't stop flights from Italy directly or through Europe for more than a week later
There was NO screening down at US airports again until at least a week later. None. Only after funneling flights through certain airports and even then there was no on board or exiting screening done.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Probably laughing at the impending suffering & death by his hands.🤬
unblock
(52,196 posts)Perfect conditions to spread the virus among them, in case they didn't already have it....
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Igel
(35,300 posts)Remember the response?
Even the limited ban on flights from China was panned as a racist waste of time.