Tom Hanks Coronavirus
tom hanks coronavirus, CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE Make no mistake, he said. Coronavirus is dangerous. Those infected are contagious before they show symptoms. They don't know they have it. The rapid spread is concerning. But, the host continued, The president, he has been taking it seriously from day one. Way back in January, way before the Democrats seemed to care about the coronavirus, the White House declared a public health emergency. And then you might recall, the president barred non-U.S. citizens who recently visited from China from entering the United States. Wow, that's something that the left and the mob would say is bigoted. He's been on top of this, fully engaged from day one.
tom hanks coronavirus - Vice President Mike Pence weighs in on U.S. preparation for a potential outbreak, Democrats' politicization of the disease in an exclusive interview on 'Hannity.' Vice President Mike Pence told Fox News' Sean Hannity in an exclusive interview Thursday that the risk of the spread of coronavirus in the United States of America remains low and credited what he called decisive action by President Trump earlier this year. We continue to prepare for whatever may come, but the reality is that because of the actions that President Trump took ... literally, you know, ending travel, closing our borders to people coming in from China, establishing a quarantine process, setting up a task force, Pence said. I mean if the president hadn’t taken those unprecedented steps we’d be in a very different place today, Sean.
tom hanks coronavirus, At a news conference Wednesday, Trump announced that Pence was in charge of coordinating the federal government's response to the outbreak, nearly one month after Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar declared the coronavirus to be a public health emergency on Jan. 31. CDC WARNS ON CORONAVIRUS IN US: SHOULD YOU START TO WORRY? When we first received word of the outbreak of the coronavirus shortly after the first of the year, Pence recounted. The -- the health team came in. I was there in the Oval Office, and they said to the president, 'Look ... what we ought to do is we ought to end air travel, we ought to close our border and we ought to establish a quarantining process for any American citizens that we allow back in.'
tom hanks coronavirus - And they said, 'No president has ever done this before, but we’re recommending out of an abundance of caution that you do it.' And President Trump didn’t hesitate for one second. He said, 'Do it.' ... our health experts told me again yesterday when we huddled right after that [Wednesday] press briefing for the first time -- they said we would be in a very different place today if President Trump hadn’t taken the decisive action that we had. And today, we haven’t had a new case for the last two weeks until the word that reached the public in the last 24 hours, Pence added. We’ve had 15 cases in this country. People are being treated and -- and doing well.
tom hanks coronavirus - Pence also said the White House is hopeful that Republicans and Democrats will put politics aside to deal with the outbreak, saying that both parties can do what the American people want them to do on the issue. We continue to hope that we’ll see, not just Republicans, but Democrats dial down the rhetoric and -- and come alongside the president as we work the problem. That’s going to be our objective, Pence told host Sean Hannity. We have an opportunity to do exactly what the American people want us to do and -- and that is [to] keep the politics out of this, follow the facts, follow the science and work the problem.