Last month, NEC Director Larry Kudlow said the U.S. had “contained” the coronavirus. “Now we’re way beyond that,” he tells KellyCNBC today. “Nobody could have predicted or expected this.”
Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council, said that he had claimed the coronavirus was contained in the U.S. "right after the president boldly put travel restrictions on China.", and imposed some travel restrictions and quarantine measures for individuals coming into the U.S. from abroad.
"When I said that, it was true, factually," Kudlow added. "I'm as good as the facts. The facts changed, of course I've changed my view." But high-level officials, including some within the Trump administration, were warning of the grave threat posed by the virus even before Kudlow's late-February remarks.
Three days before Kudlow claimed the virus was contained, White House coronavirus task force member Anthony Fauci said on CNN: "At this particular moment ... the risk is very low. But, and I have to underline 'but', this could change, and it could change rapidly." "If this evolves into a pandemic, there's no way we in the United States are going to escape having more infections in this country," Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in that Feb. 22 interview.
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