Looks like it's time for a history lesson.
Pelosi visited Chinatown and encouraged others to do so. This was reported on February 24th, 2020.
"Pelosi was critical of the President's proposal to cut $1 billion out of the CDC's budget at a stressful time as coronavirus containment efforts are underway. However, she expressed confidence in federal health leaders.
"I trust Dr. Fauci at the National Institutes of Health, and he seems to have confidence in what we are doing," she said.
The Speaker says there's no reason for people to live in fear."
Coronavirus concerns: Speaker Pelosi tours San Francisco's Chinatown to show it's safe
Now let's take a look at what happened prior to this.
DEC. 31
Chinese authorities treated dozens of cases of pneumonia of unknown cause.
On Dec. 31, the government in
Wuhan, China, confirmed that health authorities were treating dozens of cases. Days later, researchers in China
identified a new virus that had infected dozens of people in Asia. At the time, there was no evidence that the virus was readily spread by humans. Health officials in China said they were monitoring it to prevent the outbreak from developing into something more severe.
first known death from an illness caused by the virus, which had infected dozens of people. The 61-year-old man who died was a regular customer at the market in Wuhan. The report of his death came just before one of China’s biggest holidays, when hundreds of millions of people travel across the country.
JAN. 20
Other countries, including the United States, confirmed cases.
The first confirmed cases outside mainland China occurred in Japan, South Korea and Thailand, according to the W.H.O.’s first
situation report. The first confirmed case in the United States came the next day in Washington State, where
a man in his 30s developed symptoms after returning from a trip to Wuhan.
JAN. 23
Wuhan, a city of more than 11 million, was cut off by the Chinese authorities.
Chinese authorities suspended buses, subways and ferries within the city of Wuhan, pictured here Feb. 3.Credit...Getty Images
The Chinese authorities
closed off Wuhan by canceling planes and trains leaving the city, and suspending buses, subways and ferries within it. At this point, at least 17 people had died and more than 570 others had been infected, including in Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, South Korea and the United States.
JAN. 30
The W.H.O. declared a global health emergency.
Amid thousands of new cases in China, a “public health emergency of international concern” was officially
declared by the W.H.O. China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said that it would continue to work with the W.H.O. and other countries to protect public health, and the U.S.
State Department warned travelers to avoid China.
suspended entry into the United States by any foreign nationals who had traveled to China in the past 14 days, excluding the immediate family members of American citizens or permanent residents. By this date,
213 people had died and nearly 9,800 had been infected worldwide.
FEB. 2
The first coronavirus death was reported outside China.
A 44-year-old man in the Philippines
died after being infected, officials said, the first death reported outside China. By this point, more than 360 people had died.
FEB. 7
A Chinese doctor who tried to raise the alarm died.
Dr. Li Wenliang, a Chinese doctor,
died after contracting the coronavirus, he was hailed as a hero by many for trying to ring early alarms that infections could spin out of control.
In early January, the authorities reprimanded him, and he was forced to sign a statement denouncing his warning Dr. Li’s death
provoked anger and frustration at how the Chinese government mishandled the situation.
FEB. 11
The disease the virus causes was named.
The W.H.O. proposed an official name for the disease the virus causes:
Covid-19, an acronym that stands for coronavirus disease 2019. The name makes no reference to any of the people, places, or animals associated with the coronavirus, given the goal to avoid stigma.
died on Feb. 14 at a hospital in Paris, in what was the first coronavirus death outside Asia, the authorities said. It was the fourth death from the virus outside mainland China, where about 1,500 people had died, most of them in Hubei Province.
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