A timeline of the coronavirus

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"Our country is under control." - Donald Trump, February 25, 2020.    Here's how the coronavirus spread around the world and became a pandemic.

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00:00The virus. They're working hard.

00:03Looks like by April, you know, in theory,

00:05when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.

00:08I hope that's true.

00:09This is the most aggressive and comprehensive effort

00:12to confront a foreign virus in modern history.

00:30China's COVID-19 Epidemic

00:34Epidemic Prevention

00:37A preliminary diagnosis shows that there are 41 cases of pneumonia

00:40infected with the new coronavirus.

00:41Two have been discharged from the hospital,

00:43seven are seriously ill, and one has died.

00:44The rest of the patients are stable.

00:46How many people are worried about this?

00:48Some people are infected with pneumonia.

00:51Like these patients who came from the seafood market.

00:56A lot of them have infectious pneumonia.

00:58Why do they all have it?

01:00People say that the seafood market is very smelly,

01:03very rotten, and very dirty.

01:04How to control the epidemic?

01:08How to quickly control the epidemic,

01:10control it, reduce its infection,

01:13because the process of infection

01:15gradually adapts to the process of the human body,

01:17the toxicity will increase.

01:18How to control the epidemic?

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01:40On January 20th, samples were confirmed by the CDC in Atlanta

01:47that, in fact, he carried the novel coronavirus.

01:51And he was hospitalized,

01:53and we're very happy to say that he is in satisfactory condition.

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02:09Wuhan is not allowed to go out.

02:12Wuhan is not allowed to go out.

02:15Wuhan is not allowed to go out.

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02:23But the whole world needs to be on alert now.

02:26The whole world needs to take action

02:28and be ready for any cases that come.

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02:34Foreign nationals,

02:36other than immediate family of U.S. citizens and permanent residents

02:40who have traveled in China within the last 14 days

02:44will be denied entry into the United States for this time.

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03:04The meals have completely changed.

03:07We are definitely no longer on a luxury cruise.

03:10It's going to be like a floating prison.

03:1341 additional passengers being found positive,

03:17tested for the coronavirus,

03:20one of whom is a friend of ours on honeymoon

03:24who was going to be split from his wife on honeymoon.

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04:02For the moment, all people in Codogno, when they don't go out, when they are not around

04:10for medicine or for shopping, are closed at home to listen to television.

04:14They have studied it, they know very much, in fact we're very close to a vaccine.

04:22We can't rely on a vaccine over the next several months to a year.

04:30As I stand before you today, we have more than 100 coronavirus cases in the United States.

04:35That is counting domestic cases and cases of coronavirus of Americans that were returned

04:44from China or the Diamond Princess.

04:50Currently 114 people have tested positive in the state of California.

04:56We have identified one individual, as you know, in Placer County that is deceased related

05:02to the virus.

05:26What we are going to do is focus on an area, a concentric circle, around the

05:56the situs of the majority of the cases in New Rochelle.

06:05WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we're deeply concerned both

06:13by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming levels of inaction.

06:23We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic.

06:31Today the World Health Organization officially announced that this is a global pandemic.

06:39We have been in frequent contact with our allies and we are marshalling the full power

06:44of the federal government and the private sector to protect the American people.

06:52After talking to the family, what our understanding is, is William was fine on a Friday and by

07:21Wednesday he had died.

07:28You enabled, I guess is probably the best way to put it, the Defense Production Act

07:32yesterday, but you didn't pull the trigger on it.

07:34No, because we hope we're not going to need that.

07:36The federal government's not supposed to be out there buying vast amounts of items and

07:41then shipping.

07:42You know, we're not a shipping clerk.

07:47The rate of increase in the number of cases portends a total overwhelming of our hospital

07:55system.

07:57So we're going to put out an executive order today, New York State on pause.

08:17Asking us to continue putting ourselves, you know, on the front lines without giving

08:35us the proper equipment, you know, as it can to, you know, sending a soldier onto a battlefield

08:40without, you know, a bulletproof vest or helmet.

08:43It's an unreasonable request.

09:02At last we have a deal.

09:21If we could hold that down, as we're saying to 100,000, it's a horrible number, maybe

09:27even less, but to 100,000.

09:29So we have between 100 and 200,000.

09:33We all together have done a very good job.

09:59We still have more than our fair share of people dying, and that is likely because we

10:16have more than our fair share of people who have the comorbidities that make them especially

10:22vulnerable.

10:23Again, these are things like diabetes, kidney disease, heart disease, hypertension, obesity.

10:48That's the reason why I keep coming up at every chance I get to plea with the American

10:52people to please take a look at those guidelines that the vice president keeps putting up with

10:57his chart.

10:58Because every single one of those points has something to do with physical separation.

11:03And mitigation does work.

11:05But again, we're not going to destroy our country.

11:08I said it from the beginning.

11:10The cure cannot be worse than the problem itself.

11:32I can tell you that I'm shaking hands.

11:35I was at a hospital the other night where I think there were actually a few coronavirus

11:40patients, and I shook hands with everybody.

12:10I think the social problems that will come out of this, we can't even conceive yet.

12:25So I think the impact, by no means to diminish 9-11, I think that played out in a different

12:32way, but this one, too, will be equally devastating for this city.

13:32As you saw on the broadcast, there's some noise in the background.

13:36We do have some folks up here in Kentucky today, and everybody should be able to express

13:41their opinion that believes we should reopen Kentucky immediately right now.

13:46Folks, that would kill people.

13:48It would absolutely kill people.

14:18Given the favorable data, enhanced testing, and approval of our health care professionals,

14:32we will allow gyms, fitness centers, bowling alleys, body art studios, barbers, cosmetologists,

14:41hair designers, nail care artists, estheticians, their respective schools, and massage therapists

14:49to reopen their doors this Friday, April the 24th.

15:11Until we have longer-term solutions for this, and until we understand this virus better

15:26and its transmission, and whether it will come back in a more damaging way even, we

15:31have to be very prudent.

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