Trump's `strong wall' to block COVID-19 from China had holes

last month, remain the administration’s first line of defense against foreign sources of the pandemic.

There is no clear evidence that the small but steady flow of people from Hong Kong and Macau introduced COVID-19 cases inside the U.S. in January or in the four months since, but the exemptions “certainly undercut the purpose of the ban,” said Dr. Ronald Waldman, a professor of Global Health at George Washington University.

A second administration official noted that the decision to impose a travel ban came after hundreds of thousands of travelers had entered the U.S. from China in January. That same month, more than 12,700 people entered the U.S. from the two Chinese territories, Commerce records show. Former Ambassador Richard Boucher, who was Hong Kong consul general in the 1990s, said that under the Hong Kong Policy Act passed by Congress in 1992, “we are obligated to treat Hong Kong as a special jurisdiction as long as it functions independently.”

“Once we see that there is significant human to human transmission so it’s not just, hey, there is something going on there we go to what is called a level one. And right now that’s Hong Kong,” the CDC’s director, Dr. Robert Redfield, testified during a House hearing on Feb. 27. Federal health officials planned to funnel the thousands of people returning from China through 11 airports for health screenings over the several weeks. Those with symptoms would be quarantined by the CDC. Others would be allowed to go on their way, but be monitored by state and local health departments, who would be responsible for contacting the travelers within 72 hours to advise them to isolate themselves for two weeks and to monitor whether they developed symptoms.

obtained by the AP through a public records request. “Knew it would not be perfect but it has begun.”between New Hampshire officials stated on Feb. 7. “The records were poor quality, and the data wasn’t complete enough for anyone to be able to do anything with,” Pauley told the AP.

In fact,CarrieLam in HongKong is deliberate refusing to close all borders from China Thus,CarrieLam should share the responsibility with their boss CCP

AP=Always Propaganda

So your saying we need better border security.....

Remember he was called racist when he banned flights coming from China? The alleged “holes” you mention must have been in the communist states, youknow the ones with more covid infected people

Lol I thought you sad he was xenophobic when he did this now he didn’t do it good enough!! Wow how do you wish washy people call yourselves journalists! fakenewsAP&cnn

HKers trying to sound the alarm but hiding by media who are CCP alliance! See, HKGov know sth happened in Nov 2019 so shut down the post office. But they denied to close the border from China to allow CCPcoronavirus spreading over the world! FoxNews globalnews australian

realDonaldTrump Why are you bragging about your China embargo? EpicFail

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HelloTeamTrump And the early response has saved over 3 million lives. God bless President Trump and God bless America. HappyIndependenceDay 🇺🇸

You mean the u.s. government screwed the pooch again.? No way. The left promises that bigger government is the answer to all our problems

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When Covid began to spread, every single source of information everywhere had holes in it. MASSIVE holes. EVERYWHERE.

Haha, the government has been tracking everyone's movements for the entire time. Don't feed us this bullshit.

Where is the whole? From Democrats corruption?

Obama and Joe has 8, “let me spell it out ——- EIGHT YEARS ——— and now it’s Trumps fault. You people, “and I mean Democrats” have lost touch with reality. If Barry and Joe were so damn intelligent, all these problems should have handled themselves. Think about it!!! Trump2020

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Did they walk over past the border wall with their Covid?

8,000 Chinese nationals and foreign residents of Hong Kong and Macao entered the U.S. on more than 600 commercial and private flights in the first three months after the ban was imposed The ban was a PR exercise

Of course it did. realdonaldtrump is a miserable failure. Everything he touches with his stubby loser fingers turns to crap.

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And the virus had already started ravaging Europe. So, there's that.

From China with corona 😷

You mean 40,000...

Maybe they are with Clinton’s emails.

TRAITOR trump is worse than useless, like the $100 worth of useless PPE they’ve procured for $2 trillion.

Most early response to almost anything has flaws. My question is whether anyone at AP has ever had to make any life or death rapid decisions. Apparently not. Military training would benefit nondescript individuals who need some competence building.

It was a travel Band-aid not ban.

America keeps losing people. First migrant children and now sick travelers? The sick travelers we can't help, but those trafficked children we can.

So these Governors ( a trend there ) opt out and it’s Trump’s fault.

This hindsight crap is getting ridiculous! No one is to blame for this virus. It happend and the whole world is suffering. Point the finger in the direction of a solution instead of at each other!

When all is said and done, when the genomic data is finally analyzed.... it's going to be a real eye opener.

And did you expect him to go directly to the airports to stop them from getting off the plane? Is this how you do your reporting...Just throw out any absurd thing that comes into your mind?

But Trump had to let Americans abroad back home. They rushed home abruptly. But Trump never tested them upon re-entry bringing the infection into the United States. Why? Trump was still lying or pretending that it was a hoax.

Everyone needs to wear a mask and save the lives of not only your family and friends, but everyone. Practice social distancing. Yes, it's hard, but if we don't try to stop it from spreading, we will end up with hundreds of thousands of people in the USA dead.

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To be expected from the most incompetent administration in our history

Because they came from Hong Kong and Macau, and we treat them differently (until the National Security Law)

We needed to shut down all flights from China.

So much winning

Doesn't matter now.

not just mainland China but Wuhan itself.

We can’t be surprised that every aspect of trumps covid response is a failure.

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