the chinese put on a public database the sequence of the virus. i mobilized my team and said, "we can't assume that this is gonna be well controlled. we've gotta start making a vaccine right now." the first case of china's new and deadly coronavirus has been reported here in the us. [monique] health officials say the man traveled from wuhan, china to sea-tac airport last week, on his way back to snohomish county. now it was official. january 21st, 2020. covid was in the united states at that point, there was no denying it. [dr. fauci] what was likely going on is that that first case was spreading around, and many of the people were without symptoms, but spreading it to others. and that's how an outbreak that has this characteristic starts. [joe] have you been briefed -by the cdc? -i have. [joe] are you worried about a pandemic at this point? no, we're not at all. and we're, we have it totally under control. it's one person coming in from china. and we have it under control, it's gonna be just fine.