We get the President's thinking about how China is. Well, the first thing I want to point out is that this virus did not originate in the United States. It originated in Wuhan and Hubei province in China. It originated some time ago. Unfortunately, rather than using best practices. This outbreak in Wuhan was covered up. There's there's lots of open source reporting from China from Chinese nationals, that the doctors involved are either silenced or are put in isolation or that sort of thing. So that the word of this virus could not get out. It probably cost the world community two months to respond. And those two months if we'd had those unable to sequence the virus and had the cooperation necessary from the Chinese had, who team then on the ground had a CDC team, which we'd offered them on the ground. I think we could have dramatically curtail what happened both in China and what's now happening across the world. So that's how it started. The President took very bold action. When when we realized the extent of what was happening. We stopped air travel coming in from China over 20,000 people a day coming from China, into the US. The President made a very courageous decision and was one of the first leaders of a of a major country to make that decision. I think it was the first major economic power to make the decision to stop the incoming travel folks who've been in China or who are originating in China that bought the United States. Six to eight weeks for the virus seized a number of other things we brought in to the White House, Debbie Burke's fantastic position in the State Department. And we appreciate the secretary Pompeo immediately moving her over to the White House. With the President's request. He put Vice President Pence in charge of
