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TIMELINE ( detailed through May 25, some additions later)
TIMELINE ( detailed through May 25, some additions later)
Note: The numbers in parentheses following a timeline entry refer to the references on the References web page.
2005 Bush warns about pandemic flus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSDC5L7qYUc
Feb 2007 An article in Microbiology Review says, “The presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the culture of eating exotic mammals in southern China is a time bomb. The possibility of the reemergence of SARS and other novel viruses from animals or laboratories and therefore the need for preparedness should not be ignored.
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1241433231649427456?s=20
2009-2017 The Obama Administration deals with the swine flu (H1N1) pandemic Jan 2009 to August 2010
-April 25, 2009 WHO declares a public health emergency
-April 26, 2009 The Department of Homeland Security declares a Public Health Emergency
https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20090426/swine_flu_20_us_cases_confirmed#1
-June 11, 2009 WHO declares H1N1 a pandemic
-October 24, 2009 Obama declares a national emergency. CDC director, Dr. Thomas Frieden, says millions of people have been infected in the U.S. and more than 1,000 have died.
https://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/24/h1n1.obama/index.html
(Ultimately 12,500 Americans died from swine flu including 1100 children.)
-2010-2016 The Obama administration depletes the supply of N95 masks in the Strategic National Stockpile and ignores warnings to replenish it. From this clip, a USA Today fact check article:
“There is no indication that the Obama administration took significant steps to replenish the supply of N95 masks in the Strategic National Stockpile after it was depleted from repeated crises. Calls for action came from experts at the time concerned for the country’s ability to respond to future serious pandemics. Such recommendations were, for whatever reason, not heeded.”
2016 Trump says from the beginning of his 2016 run that our dependence on China was reaching dangerous levels and we needed to return to a time when we didn’t depend on them for so much.
May 14, 2019: Ronald Klain who is currently a top Biden advisor says: “In 2009/2010 I was working for Vice President Biden. I wasn't involved directly in the H1N1 response, but I I lived through it as a White House staffer and what I would say about it is a bunch of really talented really great people working on it and we did every possible thing wrong. And 60 million Americans got H1N1 in that period of time and it's just purely fortuitous that this wasn't one of the great mass casualty events in American history. It had nothing to do with us doing anything right, just had to do with luck."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c2PmErlEzQ
December 13, 2019: US and China announce they have reached an agreement on a Trade deal
Dec. 31, 2019: WHO says mysterious pneumonia sickening dozens in China but there is no evidence of the virus spreading from person to person.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/timeline-coronavirus-started/story?id=69435165
December 31: Taiwan email asking about the atypical pneumonia cases in Wuhan is ignored by China and WHO. WHO continues to reiterate China's false talking points — that "there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission" of the novel pathogen even as late as Jan 14. (To health professionals “atypical pneumonia means there is a real possibility of human to human transmission.)
January 3: CDC Director Robert Redfield sends an email to the director of the Chinese CDC, George Gao, formally offering to send U.S. experts to China to investigate the outbreak, not yet called the coronavirus. (1)
January 7: China announces they have identified a new coronavirus. (2)
January 7: The CDC establishes a coronavirus incident management system to better share and respond to information about the virus. (1)
January 11: First death caused by the coronavirus. (2)
January 13: China reports a case of virus infection (first case of human to human transmission). (2)
January 15: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) holds a vote to send articles of impeachment to the Senate. Pelosi and House Democrats celebrate the “solemn” occasion with a signing ceremony, using commemorative pens. (3)
January 15: Chinese delegation to US signs US/China trade deal. It is also widely believed that the Chinese hid the coronavirus facts from the USA and the world until the US-China trade deal was signed. The reason -- the pandemic being part of the Force Majeure (Act of God) clause, which allows the Chinese to not adhere to the clause of buying specified amount of American goods in the event of a pandemic.
January 16: First case outside China (Japan). (2)
January 17: Second death in China. The United States implements screenings for symptoms at airports in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles for flights coming from Wuhan. (2)
January 20: First case in US, diagnosed by the CDC test kit in a patient returning from Wuhan to Washington state (6)
January 21: At :26-:45 in the following clip, in response to the question, “What are you thinking in terms of this virus spreading here in the United States?” Dr. Fauci says, “Well most people are probably at a very low risk.” He also says about 75K people come from Wuhan province to US per year and agrees that is a manageable number. At :58 He says: “This is not a major threat to the people of the United States, and this is not something that the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about.
https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1246131288664408064
January 23: The WHO says that the Wuhan coronavirus does not yet constitute a public health emergency of international concern. (2)
January 23: China closes off the city of Wuhan completely to slow the spread of coronavirus to the rest of China. House impeachment managers make their opening arguments for removing President Trump. (3)
January 27: The World Health Organization (WHO) says the global risk from the deadly coronavirus is “high,” admitting it made a mistake in previous reports that rated the risk of the virus as “moderate.”
January 27: President Trump tweets that he made an offer to President Xi Jinping to send experts to China to investigate the coronavirus outbreak.
January 28: At :17 in the referenced clip, Dr. Fauci says I anticipate with some cautious optimism that we will be in a Phase one trial ( of a vaccine) within the next three months. (4)
January 29: The White House announces the formation of a new task force that will help monitor and contain the spread of the virus and ensure Americans have accurate and up-to-date health and travel information. (2) (This is one day before WHO declares a Public Health Emergency, 4 days before the first death outside of China, and 31 days before the first known death in the United States.)
January 30: First confirmed case of person to person transmission in US. WHO declares a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. (2)
January 30: Senators begin asking two days of questions of both sides in the president’s impeachment trial. (3)
January 31: On CNN: “Flu is a much bigger deal.” On CNN the same day: “There is an important context you need to keep this in and that is that the flu is more deadly.” (8)
January 31: Trump administration announces it will deny entry to foreign nationals who have traveled in China in the last 14 days. (2) (This is 2 days before the first death outside of China and 29 days before the first death in the US. ) All flights from China will be funneled to 7 domestic airports. (1) This unprecedented action ended saving 10’s of thousands of lives
January 31: The Trump administration introduces Dr. Fauci to the public at a press briefing.
January 31: The Senate holds a vote on whether to allow further witnesses and documents in the impeachment trial. (3)
January 31: The Trump administration via the Health and Human Services Secretary Alex. M. Azar II declares a public health emergency for the entire United States The emergency declaration gives state, tribal, and local health departments more flexibility to mobilize against the virus. (2)
January 31: The CDC is working closely with state health departments on disease surveillance, contact tracing, and providing interim guidance for clinicians on identifying and treating coronavirus infections. HHS is working with the Department of State to assist in bringing home Americans who had been living in affected areas of mainland China. HHS divisions also are collaborating with industry to identify and move forward with development of potential diagnostics, vaccines, and therapeutics to detect, prevent, and treat 2019-nCoV infections.
January 31: Former Vice President Joe Biden comments on the China travel ban:
“This is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria xenophobia (sic), hysterical xenophobia and fear mongering.” He also says the virus is from China. Later Democrats called Trump a racist for saying it’s from China.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1238144416147288066
January 31: Nancy Pelosi calls the travel ban biased and bigoted and introduces a bill to restrict the President’s authority:
February 1: On CNN: “While there's a lot of fear about the coronavirus, the flu is already widespread in the US and it really is much more deadly is it not.” (8)
February 2: First death outside of mainland China (Philippines). (2)
February 2: The CDC expands enhanced entry screening to eight major airports across the nation. (1)
February 3: House impeachment managers begin closing arguments, calling Trump a threat to national security. (3)
February 3: A CDC team ready to travel to China to obtain critical information on the novel coronavirus is waiting permission to enter from the Chinese government. (1)
February 3 WHO chief Ghebreyesus referring to Trump’s travel ban says there was no need for measures that “unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade.
February 4: Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined in Yokohama Bay. (2)
February 4 In his State of the Union address President Trump promises to take all necessary steps to protect Americans from the virus Nancy Pelosi rips up every page. (1,3)
February 5: The Senate votes to acquit President Trump on both articles of impeachment, 52-48 and 53-47.
February 5: The Trump Administration and health officials brief lawmakers on the Federal Government's coronavirus response efforts. (1)
February 5: House Democrats finally take up coronavirus in the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia. (3)
February 6: The CDC begins shipping CDC-Developed test kits to U.S. and international labs. (1)
February 7 In the referenced clip at 2:00 Dr. Fauci says: “If there is, and I hope it doesn’t happen, a broad pandemic throughout the world, travel restrictions are not going to help.” (4)
February 8: On CBS This Morning: “The coronavirus is not going to cause a major issue in the United States. We're going to have 40 to 60,000 deaths here in the United States of influenza, and it's preventable.” (8)
February 9: The White House Coronavirus Task Force briefs governors from across the nation at the National Governors’ Association Meeting in Washington. (1)
February 11: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) expands a partnership with Janssen Research & Development to “expedite the development” of a coronavirus vaccine. (1)
February 12: The US ships test kits for the 2019 novel coronavirus to approximately 30 countries who lack the necessary reagents and other materials. (1)
February 12: CDC still waiting for permission from the Chinese government to travel to China. (1)
February 14: the CDC begins working with five labs to conduct community-based influences surveillance to study and detect the spread of Coronavirus (1)
February 14: First person to die in Europe (France) and Africa (Egypt). (2)
February 15: Transcript of President Xi speech January 7 reveals he knew about the virus almost two weeks before he commented on It publicly. (2)
February 15: On CNN: “The risk is low. The risk however for the flu is through the roof.” (8)
February 18: HHS announces it will engage with Sanofi Pasteur in an effort to quickly develop a coronavirus vaccine and to develop treatment for coronavirus infections. (1)
February 19 The U.S. stock market which is very good at anticipating problems hit an all-time high indicating a consensus lack of concern about the coronavirus until this date. It started down the next two days then plunged February 24 and 25.
February 22: A WHO team of international experts arrives in Wuhan, China. (1)
February 24: The Trump administration asks Congress for $2.5 billion supplemental funding to accelerate vaccine development, support preparedness and response activities and to procure much needed equipment and supplies.
February: 24 Nancy Pelosi tells people it’s OK to gather in San Francisco Chinatown.
https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1250563714878586880?s=20
February 25: At 2:24 in the referenced clip Dr. Fauci says “We are reasonably well prepared. We’ve had a pandemic preparedness plan that we put together years ago.” (4)
February 26: First US case of unknown origin (community spread). (2)
February 26: Mike Pence appointed head of US task force. (2)
February 25: Trump President Trump discusses coronavirus containment efforts with Indian Prime Minister. (1)
February 29: First virus death in US. (2)
February 29: The Trump Administration:
Announces a level 4 travel advisory to areas of Italy and South Korea.
Bars all travel to Iran.
Bars the entry of foreign citizens who visited Iran in the last 14 days. (1)
February 29: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) removes long standing regulations to allow certified labs to develop and begin testing coronavirus testing kits while reviewing pending applications. (1)
February 29 WHO continues to “advise against the application of travel or trade restrictions to countries experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks.
March 2-March 10: March 2. Biden holds rallies in Houston and Dallas on March 2, L.A. on March 3, St. Louis and Kansas City on March 7, Grand Rapids & Detroit on March 9, and Philadelphia on March 10.
March 2 trump meets with executives from Gilead, J&J, Pfizer, Regeneron and other pharma companies to discuss cures and vaccines.
https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/02/trumps-tone-toward-pharma-shifts-coronavirus/
March 3: The CDC lifts federal restrictions on coronavirus testing to allow any American to be tested for coronavirus, “subject to doctor’s orders.” (1)
March 3: The White House announces President Trump donated his fourth quarter salary to fight the coronavirus. (1)
March 4: CNN’s Anderson Cooper says: ”Half the people in America do not get the flu shot and the flu right now is far deadlier. So if you're freaked out at all about the coronavirus you should be more concerned about the flu.” (8)
March 4: The Trump Administration announces the purchase of approximately 500 million N95 respirators over the next 18 months to respond to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. (1)
March 4: Secretary Azar announces that HHS was transferring $35 million to the CDC to help state and local communities that have been impacted most by the coronavirus. (1)
March 4: At 4:45 Dr. Fauci says there aren’t as many asymptomatic cases as we think (4)
March 4: Trump meets with Test Labs including LabCorp, Quest Diagnostics Inc , Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc, Abbott Laboratories and the Mayo Clinic to discuss increasing the availability of tests for the coronavirus and said that the companies had formed a consortium.
March 6: President Trump signs an $8.3 billion bill to fight the coronavirus outbreak. The bill provides $7.76 billion to federal, state, & local agencies to combat the coronavirus and authorizes an additional $500 million in waivers for Medicare telehealth restrictions. (1)
March 8 Governor Cuomo downplays the seriousness of the virus itself, noting that it is like “a bad flu,” and not serious unless one is part of these vulnerable populations.
March 9: President Trump calls on Congress to pass a payroll tax cut over coronavirus. (1)
March 9: Italy locks down with 1000’s of cases
March 10: President Trump meets with insurance company CEOs and gets them to agree to waive all copays, include coverage in their plans, cover telemedicine and present no surprise billing, among other things.
March 11: WHO declares the Coronavirus a pandemic.
March 11: President Trump meets with big banks to discuss what steps they are taking to help small- and medium-size companies weather the coronavirus.
March 11: President Trump:
Announces travel restrictions on foreigners who had visited Europe in the last 14 days.
Directs the Small Business Administration to issue low-interest loans to affected small businesses and called on congress to increase this fund by $50 billion.
Directs the Treasury Department to defer tax payments for affected individuals & businesses and provide $200 billion in “additional liquidity.” (1)
March 11: NYC mayor de Blasio tells New Yorkers they should still be going out to eat in restaurants. “If you’re not sick, you should be going about your life,” the mayor said.
https://ny.eater.com/2020/3/11/21175497/coronavirus-nyc-restaurants-safe-dine-out
March 11: New York Times reports that Chinese pharmaceutical companies have supplied more than 90 percent of U.S. antibiotics, vitamin C, ibuprofen and hydrocortisone, as well as 70 percent of acetaminophen and 40 to 45 percent of heparin in recent years, according to Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Supporters of reducing reliance on China have used the coronavirus epidemic to highlight what they say is a longstanding vulnerability that could leave Americans dangerously short of medicines in the event of a war, trade conflict or pandemic.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/0March 11/business/economy/coronavirus-china-trump-drugs.html
March 12: Dr. Fauci says at 5:08 in the referenced clip. “The (testing) system is not really geared to what we need right now. …That is a failing. The way the system is set up is that…. a physician asks for it and you get it. The idea of anybody getting it easily the way people in other countries are doing it. We’re not set up for that. Do I think we should be Yes.” (4)
March 13: President Trump declares a national emergency in order to access $42 billion in existing funds to combat the coronavirus. (1)
March 13: President Trump announces:
Public-private partnerships to open up drive-through testing collection sites.
A pause on interest payments on federal student loans.
An order to the Department of Energy to purchase oil for the strategic petroleum reserve. (1)
March 13: The Food & Drug Administration:
Grants Roche AG an emergency approval for automated coronavirus testing kits.
Issues an emergency approval to Thermo Fisher for a coronavirus test within 24 hours of receiving the request. (1)
March 13: HHS announces funding for the development of two new rapid diagnostic tests, which would be able to detect coronavirus in approximately 1 hour. (1)
March 13: President Trump meets with presidents or CEOs of Target, Walmart, CVS, and Walgreens to discuss drive through test centers. CEOs of laboratory, research, and medical device companies also joined Trump, who said that he has called on the labs to expedite efforts to increase the availability of tests for COVID-19.
March 14 Spain locks down with over 1000 cases.
The Trump Administration announces the European travel ban will extend to the UK and Ireland. (1)
March 15: President Trump holds a phone call with over two dozen grocery store executives to discuss on-going demand for food and other supplies. (1)
March 16: President Trump:
Announces “15 days to slow the spread” coronavirus guidance.
Holds a tele-conference with governors to discuss coronavirus preparedness and response.
Participates in a call with G7 leaders who commit to increasing coordination in response to the coronavirus and restoring global economic confidence.
Announces that the first potential vaccine for coronavirus has entered a phase one trial in a record amount of time. (1)
March 16: The FDA announces it was empowering states to authorize tests developed and used by labs in their states. (1)
March 16: Asst. Secretary for Health confirms the availability of 1 million coronavirus tests and projected 2 million tests available the next week and 5 million the following. (1)
March 17: President Trump announces CMS will expand telehealth benefits for Medicare beneficiaries, relevant Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act penalties will not be enforced, and the Army Corps of Engineers is on ”standby” to assist federal & state governments. (1)
March 17: President Trump speaks to fast food executives from Wendy’s, McDonald’s and Burger King to discuss drive-thru services recommended by CDC and meets with tourism industry representatives along with industrial supply, retail, and wholesale representatives. (1)
March 17: Secretary of Agriculture announces a partnership between USDA, Baylor University, McLane Global, and Pepsi Co. to provide one million meals per weak to rural children in response to widespread school closures. (1)
March 17: The Treasury Department Contributes $10 billion through the economic stabilization fund to the Federal Reserve’s commercial paper funding facility and defers $300 billion in tax payments for 90 days without penalty, up to $1 million for individuals & $10 million for business. (1)
March 17: The Department of Defense announces it will make available to HHS up to five million respirator masks and 2,000 ventilators. (1)
March 18: President Trump signs the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, which provides free testing and paid sick leave for workers impacted by the coronavirus. (1)
March 18: President Trump invokes emergency powers via Executive Order under the Defense Production Act
March 18: Trump orders the border with Canada partly closed and announces that Hospital ships are heading into coronavirus hot zones and that all foreclosures and evictions will be suspended for a period of time. (1)
March 18: Secretary of Defense Mark Esper confirms that 1 million masks are now immediately available and the Army Corps of Engineers is in NY consulting on how to best assist state officials. (1)
March 18: HHS temporarily suspends a regulation that prevents doctors from practicing across state lines. (1)
March 18: President Trump speaks to doctors, physicians, and nurses on the front lines containing the spread of coronavirus and with 130 CEOs of the Business Roundtable to discuss on-going public-private partnerships in response to the coronavirus pandemic. (1)
March 18th in response to a Donald Trump tweet about how he has handled the virus including his early decision to close the borders Joe Biden tweeted: “Stop the xenophobic fear-mongering.”
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1240361258957897728?s=20
March 19 Trump names FEMA as the lead agency in the COVID-19 emergency response efforts, a designation previously held by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). These actions collectively allow the federal government to deliver virus response funds and other assistance to state and local governments to reduce the spread of the virus and protect the economy against its mounting impact. The declaration comes as part of a broader effort to bolster the economy and contain the virus
March 19: President Trump visits FEMA HQ with Vice President Pence for a video call with Governors. (1)
March 19: The State Department issues a global level 4 health advisory, telling Americans to avoid all international travel due to coronavirus. (1)
March 20: The U.S. and Mexico agree to mutually restrict nonessential cross-border traffic at the direction of President Trump, tax day will be moved from April 15 to July 15 for all taxpayers and businesses. (1)
March 20: President Trump speaks with Sen. Schumer about coronavirus response and stimulus measures, holds a call with over 12,000 small business owners to discuss relief efforts, and announces the CDC will invoke Title 42 to provide border patrol with tools to secure the borders.(1)
March 20: President Trump approves major disaster declaration for New York. (This gives New York Access to billions of dollars in aid from the disaster relief fund.) (1)
March 20: The Department of Education announces it will not enforce standardized testing requirements for the remainder of the school year, and it will allow federal student loan borrowers to stop payments without penalty for 60 days. (1)
March 20-March 21: Testing and PPE progress. (1)
Secretary Azar announces:
FEMA is coordinating and assisting coronavirus testing at labs across the country
The CDC is suspending all illegal entries to the country based on the public health threat, via Section 362 of the Public Health & Security Act
He has sent a letter to all 50 Governors that the federal government is buying and making available 200,000 testing swabs
March 21: The Trump Administration announces HHS placed an order for hundreds of millions of N95 masks through FEMA.
The FDA announces it had given emergency approval to a new coronavirus test that delivers results in hours, with an intended rollout of March 30. (1)
March 21st US Army Corps of Engineers receives orders to begin construction of temporary hospitals in New York.
March 22: President Trump announces the federal government is sending the National Guard to New York California and Washington and FEMA will fund its deployment. Also announces the Federal Government is deploying hundreds of tons of supplies from the national stockpile including gloves, medical beds, N95, masks, gowns and 1000 additional hospital beds for New York. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will also provide support to build out alternate care sites.
https://abc13.com/coronavirus-us-update-fauci/6038979/
March 22: President Trump announces that the USNS Mercy will be deployed to Los Angeles. (1)
March 23: UK locks down
March 24:Vice President Pence announces that an additional 4,000 ventilators for either on their way or would soon be sent to New York State
President Trump announces the Army Corps of Engineers and the National Guard are constructing four hospitals and four medical centers in New York. (1)
March 24: At 6:40 in the referenced clip Dr. Fauci says: “We have an opportunity now that we have the availability of testing to do that (find an infected person, isolate them, do contact tracing.” (4)
March 25: President Trump and Vice President Pence hold a conference call with 140 non-profit organization leaders, including The Salvation Army & The Red Cross, to discuss coronavirus response efforts. (1)
March 25: President Trump signs a bill reauthorizing The Older Americans Act, which supports senior citizens by providing meals, transportation, and other crucial services. (1)
March 25: Vice President Pence holds a conference call with equipment manufacturers to discuss on-going coronavirus response efforts. (1)
March 25: Governor Cuomo mandates that nursing homes accept Covid patients with deadly results.
March 25: Mark Cuban refuses to bash Trump on The View saying “I’m not a fan of President Trump’s, but I’m not going to rip on him either because any senator could have stood up and said something and screamed loud, any congressperson could have, nobody did…again, I’m not a fan of his but what’s real is real. When you have imperfect information, you make imperfect decisions. We’re not in a ready, aim, fire mode. We’re in a ready, fire, aim mode — and that makes it tough. And so, no matter what he did, it’s going to be wrong for some people.”
March 26: Dr. Birx says there is no shortage of ventilators
https://twitter.com/CortesSteve/status/1243344281420652547
March 26: President Trump announces the USNS Comfort will depart for NYC on Saturday to assist in the coronavirus response – 3 weeks ahead of schedule. (1)
March 26: President Trump participates in a video conference with the leaders of the G20 to discuss the global coronavirus response and the need for countries to share information and data on the spread of the virus. (1)
March 26: President Trump holds a phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss the coronavirus. (1)
March 27: President Trump signs The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act into law. (1)
March 27: President Trump signs a Defense Production Act memorandum ordering General Motors (GM) "to accept, perform, and prioritize federal contractors for ventilators. (1)
March 27: President Trump signs an executive order allowing the military to activate members of the Selected Reserve and Ready Reserve to active duty to assist with the Federal response to the coronavirus. (1)
March 27: Wells Fargo senior bank analyst says "Banks come into this recession with stronger balance sheets than any other time before a recession in the last half century." (Because of Trump’s strong economy we were as economically prepared as we could possibly have been for a crisis like the pandemic.)
https://twitter.com/SquawkCNBC/status/1243507044490985473?s=20
March 27: President Trump meets with Google CEO to discuss contracts and other ongoing partnerships with the US government.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/27/18284415/sundar-pichai-donald-trump-meeting-white-house
March 27: The USNS Mercy arrives in the port of Los Angeles to help relieve the strain on hospital facilities in Southern California. (1)
March 28: President Trump visits Norfolk, VA to send off the USNS Comfort to New York City where it will help relieve the strain on local hospitals. (1)
March 29: President Trump meets with supply chain distributors including FedEx, Cardinal Health, and UPS to discuss ways to get state and local governments necessary medical supplies to combat the coronavirus. (1)
March 29: President Trump congratulates the Army Corps of Engineers for having completed construction on a 2,900 bedroom temporary hospital at the Javits Center in New York. (1)
March 29: President Trump announces the on-going study of 1,100 patients in New York being treated with Hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus. (1)
March 29: President Trump directs the Treasury & Labor Departments to look at reinstating deductions of business expenses at restaurants, bars, and entertainment businesses to help the hospitality industry. (1)
March 29: The first "Project Airbridge" shipment of medical supplies from abroad, organized by FEMA, lands at JFK airport, carrying 80 tons of masks, face shields, and other vital medical supplies. (1)
March 29: President Trump announces that Cigna and Humana are waving co-pays for coronavirus treatment. (1)
March 30: President Trump announces “more than 14,000” National Guard service members have been activated to respond to the coronavirus outbreak. (1)
March 30: President Trump announces that in the coming days the Federal Government will be delivering:
400 ventilators to Michigan
300 ventilators to New Jersey
150 ventilators to Louisiana
150 ventilators to Illinois
50 ventilators to Connecticut (1)
March 30: CMS announces new regulatory changes to cut red tape and give flexibility to America’s health care workers by relaxing hospital workforce regulations, expanding child care, meal, and laundry services for health care workers, expanding tele-health reimbursement, and more. (1)
March 30: The USNS Comfort arrives in New York Harbor, providing more than 1,000 more hospital beds for patients without coronavirus, to relieve pressure on local hospitals. (1)
March 30: The USNS Mercy begins treating patients in Los Angeles. (1)
March 31: President Trump officially issues “30 Days To Slow The Spread” guidance to mitigate the outbreak of coronavirus.
March 31: President Trump announces the Army Corps of Engineers & FEMA will construct:
Eight facilities with 50,000 bed capacity in California
A field hospital with 250 bed capacity in Michigan
Two field hospitals in Louisiana with 500 bed capacity
An alternative care sight in New Orleans with a 3,000 bed capacity (1)
March 31: Vice President Pence announces that 17,000 National Guard Servicemen have been activated across the country to assist in the coronavirus response.
April 1: The Treasury Department announced that Social Security recipients, including senior citizens, disabled Americans, and low-income Americans who do not file tax returns will have their coronavirus relief payments directly deposited into their bank accounts. (1)
April 2: President Trump says the DOD is adding another 48 ICU beds in New York City.
April 2: President Trump invokes the Defense Production Act to direct 3M to produce more N95 respirator masks. (1)
April 2: President Trump invokes the Defense Production Act to help 6 companies (General Electric, Hill-Rom Holdings, Medtronic, ResMed, eRoyal Philips, and Vyaire Medical) get the supplies they need to make ventilators. (1)
April 2: President Trump ordered the Federal Government to cover the costs of all National Guard operations in states with recently approved disaster declarations. (1)
April 2: Rear Adm. Polowczyk announced FEMA’s Supply Chain Stabilization Task Force has delivered: (1)
27.1 million surgical masks
19.5 N95 million respirator masks
22.4 million surgical gloves
5.2 million face shields
Over 7,600 ventilators
April 3: The President meets with energy executives from Phillips 66, Devon Energy, Continental Resources, Hilcorp Energy, Occidental Petroleum, The American Petroleum Institute, The Energy Transfer Partners, Chevron, & Exxon Mobil to discuss coronavirus’ impact on the energy industry. (1)
April 3: President Trump announces that uninsured Americans will have their coronavirus treatment covered, using funding from the CARES Act. (1)
April 3: The SBA launched the Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, issuing more than 17,500 loans valued at $5.4 billion.(1)
April 3: President Trump announces that the DOJ and HHS have together secured
200,000 N95 masks
130,000 surgical masks
600,000 gloves
from hoarders and have distributed the supplies to health care workers. (1)
April 3: The Army Corps of Engineers is working with states to assess 750 requests for temporary hospital facilities, having completed 673 already.(1)
April 3: HUD announces it is making $200 million in Indian housing block grants for Indian Tribes under the CARES Act. (1)
April 4: President Trump announces that 1,000 members of the Defense Department’s Medical Corps will be deployed to New York to assist in the fight against coronavirus. (1)
April 6: HHS announces an additional $186 million in CDC funding for state and local jurisdictions combating the coronavirus. (1)
April 8: HHS expands telehealth services for Native Americans through The Indian Health Service. (1)
April 9: Vice President Pence announces that to date 4,100 military medical personnel have been deployed to New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. (1)
April 10: Vice President Pence announces that:
29,600 National Guard Troops have been activated
4,700 active duty medical personnel have been deployed to nine states (1)
April 9: The USDA announces relief for farmers across the country by giving borrowers 12 months to repay marketing assistance loans (MAL), helping protect farmers from being forced to sell crops to make loan payments. (1)
April 9: Secretary of Education DeVos announces that $6.3B in CARES Act funding will be immediately distributed to colleges and universities to provide cash grants to students affected by the coronavirus, (1)
April 9: The USDA launches the Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) Program in Michigan, which will help feed children eligible for USDA school lunch programs who are now home during the coronavirus outbreak. (1)
April 13: On the Howard Stern show Gov. Cuomo says about President Trump: “He has been good in delivering for New York. …The Army Corps of Engineers, we built thousands of beds. He sent the Navy Ship Comfort to New York. He has delivered for New York. “
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/audio-rush-transcript-governor-cuomo-guest-howard-stern-show
April 13: At 1:15 in the following clip Dr. Fauci says: "The first and only time that Dr. Birx and I went in and formally made a recommendation to the president to actually have a "shutdown" in the sense of strong mitigation, we discussed it. Obviously there would be concerns by some, and in fact, that might have some negative consequences. Nonetheless, the president listened to the recommendation. And went to the mitigation. The next, second time that I went with Dr. Birx in to the president and said 15 days are not enough. We need to go 30 days. Obviously, there were people who had a problem with that because of the potential secondary effects. Nonetheless, at that time the president went with the health recommendations, and we extended it another 30 days." (4)
April 13: At a press conference President Trump shows the press a clip of them underestimating the virus and summarizing his decisive actions to combat it. The clip includes Democrat Governor Cuomo thanking President Trump for his team being responsive (to the needs of New York) and doing everything they can do and Democrat Governor Newsom saying President Trump returns calls, reaches out, has been proactive, and saying how helpful his sending the hospital ship Mercy been.
https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1y249825371710783489
April 14: More than 30,000 National Guard troops total have been activated to assist in the coronavirus response. (1)
April 14: Two flights land carrying 16 million gloves, 698,590 gowns, and 690 thermometers as part of Project Airbridge. (1)
April 14: The Department of Education announces $3 billion in education block grants for states to help schools, students, and educators at all levels. President Trump announces the Dynamic Ventilator Reserve, a public-private partnership to help hospitals with surplus loan them to hospitals in need. (1)
April 14: President Trump announces the Dynamic Ventilator Reserve, a public-private partnership to help hospitals with surplus loan them to hospitals in need. (1)
April 14: President Trump meets with health care executives to discuss the supply of ventilators. (1)
April 16: When asked on CNN how he would handle the crisis Joe Biden says: “The kinds of things that need to be done. Um, you know, there's a uh, during World War... Two, uh, you know, where Roosevelt came up with a thing that uh, you know, was totally different than a, than the, the, it's called, he's called it a, you know, the World War Two, he had the World, the War Production Board."
https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1250962230285414402?s=20
April 19: Illinois makes clear they’re counting everyone who had Covid-19 at the time of death as a Covid death even if they had been in hospice, given a few weeks to live, or if they’d died of a clear alternate cause. “Everyone who’s listed as a Covid death doesn’t mean that was the cause of death, but they had Covid at the time of death.
https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1259631071831957505?s=20
April 21, 2020: Autopsy reveals 1st US COVID-19 death was earlier than previously thought.
The CDC confirms that tissue from an individual in Santa County, California, who died Feb. 6 tested positive for COVID-19 . That death occurred weeks earlier than the COVID-19 deaths in the Seattle area Feb. 26 that were previously believed to be the nation's first.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/timeline-coronavirus-started/story?id=69435165
April 22: Trump signs executive order to limit immigration by suspending the issuance of new green cards for 60 days to protect the health, jobs, and wages of American citizens.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/494230-trump-signs-executive-order-limiting-immigration
April 24: President Trump signs legislation providing $484 billion to replenish a popular small business lending program to prevent layoffs and support hospitals and COVID-19 testing amid the coronavirus pandemic. The measure includes an additional $310 billion in funding for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), $60 billion of which is reserved for community banks and small lenders; $75 billion for hospitals; $25 billion to support testing efforts; and $60 billion for emergency disaster loans and grants.
Democrats had held up the bill for days to get these items not related to pandemic relief on it:
1) Unprecedented collective bargaining powers for unions
2) Increased fuel emissions standards for airlines
3) Expansion of wind and solar tax credits
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/494412-trump-signs-484-coronavirus-relief-package
April 25: California governor says “promise made, promise kept” by President Trump on testing swabs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIP3k70szqg
May 1 and May 4: Reports from Global and DHS show that China “intentionally concealed the severity” of the novel coronavirus, while ramping up imports and decreasing exports of medical supplies according to the report, dated May 1, 2020, and seen by AP. Chinese authorities also held off from telling the WHO that the unknown illness was a “contagion,” to buy officials time to import more PPE, including face masks and surgical gowns, the DHS report found.
May 7: Former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein says on CNBC at 5:14 regarding the administration’s fiscal and monetary response to the crisis: (In the future They’ll find 50 things they could have been done better. But in In the fog of war the heat of battle I think they acted quickly, courageously, ands largely correctly.…It’s hard to get this stuff right.”
Re: The reopening issue. At 1:35 he says: “Some people express it as dollars vs health. But that’s not fair. It’s really health vs health because Poverty, GDP is also a health issue. Life expectancy goes down if there’s a bad economy, if GDP drops by a lot.”
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2020/05/07/lloyd-blankfein-economy-coronavirus-banks-squawk-box.html
May10: Governor Cuomo admits he was wrong to admit virus patients to nursing homes.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1259649713835511808?s=20
May 15: Austria has a 90% drop in cases after requiring everyone to wear a mask.
https://twitter.com/ukarlewitz/status/1261350801101869057?s=20
May 18: President Trump meets with restaurant executives and industry leaders
May 25: Cuomo says all the (science) prediction models were wrong. There were too many variables.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cuomo-we-all-failed-coronavirus-projections-new-york
September 9: After a Bob Woodward book comes out discussing how the president did not want to panic the public, Dr. Fauci says "I didn't see any discrepancies between what we told [Trump] and what he told the public”...I didn't get any sense that he was distorting anything."
September 13, 2020 On Face the Nation Dr. Scott Gottleib, former FDA commissioner referring to the February time frame says: “The White House leadership was failed by health officials. We did not have a diagnostic in the field so we couldn’t screen for it. We should have we should have started working on that in January. And we over relied on a surveillance system that was built for flu and not for coronavirus without recognizing that it wasn’t going to be as sensitive at detecting coronavirus spread as it was for flu because those two viruses spread very differently. Those were two critical failures. ...Ultimately the White House did not have the information they needed to make decisions… That’s what was going on over February.”
https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1305173111747284993?s=20
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