Medical intelligence sleuths tracked, warned of new virus
Source: ABC News
WASHINGTON -- In late February when President Donald Trump was urging Americans not to panic over the novel coronavirus, alarms were sounding at a little-known intelligence unit situated on a U.S. Army base an hour's drive north of Washington.
Intelligence, science and medical professionals at the National Center for Medical Intelligence were quietly doing what they have done for decades monitoring and tracking global health threats that could endanger U.S. troops abroad and Americans at home.
On Feb. 25, the medical intelligence unit raised its warning that the coronavirus would become a pandemic within 30 days from WATCHCON 2 a probable crisis to WATCHCON 1 an imminent one, according to a U.S. official. That was 15 days before the World Health Organization declared the rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic.
At the time of the warning, few coronavirus infections had been reported in the United States. That same day, Trump, who was in New Delhi, India, tweeted: The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA." Soon, however, the coronavirus spread across the world, sickening more than 2 million people with the disease COVID-19 and killing more than 26,000 people in the United States.
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Javaman
(62,517 posts)I had been tracking the virus since it first appeared in december.
just after new years, I got this really bad feeling about it, I turned to my gf and said, "this one will be different".
I'm just a fucking armchair virus geek and I knew. for fuck sakes.
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)aggiesal
(8,911 posts)could not have seen this coming.
I don't believe what we currently have in the WH is a President.
Definitely and IDIOT Supreme.
Arthur_Frain
(1,849 posts)I just keep a ready scan going for reputable information that might affect me sometime.
I bought my masks and other dry goods supplies (not hoarding, just making sure the cupboards werent going bare soon) back in late January. I saw this coming back then. Watching this turd opine that nobody could have foreseen and other attempts at rewriting history turns my stomach. I just dont understand why more people dont call him out on the spot on his bullshit. In front of the live camera.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)contingency plan to work from home in February. "And we're just a tv show."
Canoe52
(2,948 posts)and she put hand sanitizer in both cars and we started our own social distancing.
Botany
(70,490 posts)And his first moves were to try to make money off of this death wave.
He also shut down and fired 3 different groups that were in China looking
for the disease too.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)The 9/11 warnings were very unspecific and vague compared to this.