Adrienne Dunn, USA TODAY
Published 5: 39 p.m. ET April 17,2020
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alert recommending U.S. clinicians to see for patients with breathing symptoms and a travel history to Wuhan, China.It’s unclear precisely when the president was very first alerted about the capacity of a pandemic. That day, the CDC reported 7 cases of coronavirus in the U.S.
By Feb. 4, there were 11 confirmed cases in the U.S.
On Feb. 25, CDC official Nancy Messonnier cautioned that a coronavirus break out in the U.S. was inescapable.
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