We are always at threat for the next pandemic. These viruses exist out in nature. As people go out in nature they get infected and then move their way back into humans. If we were to imagine the origins of covid19 as a movie, it would begin at the end of the contagion movie. Exactly that process of bulldozing down the forest, bats flying off infecting livestock that then we get infected. That happens every day, every week. Thats how these things begin. With yuhaith you wuhan is a majn the wildlife trade pathway. Its close to hot spot areas for new coronaviruses. Ever since the covid pandemic hit, weve been trying to determine if anybody knew anything about a contagion sweeping through wuhan last fall and when did they know it. Researchers looked at Satellite Photos of wuhan hospitals in october of 2019. And what they show are packed parking lots. All those red dots are cars. And we took those photos and we put em next to october of 2018. Mirror images. And you can clearly see in some that shows that those hospitals were busy during this time. Then they found another clue when they looked at baidu, thats the Google Search engine for china. During this time, there was an increase in searches for terms like cough and diarrhea, two symptoms of covid19. Now, this is three months before china announces that they have a problem with the coronavirus. Clearly, something was happening in wuhan. On the 29th of october, we flew to wuhan to start the river part of the cruise on the yangtze. We were very excited. We had not ever been to wuhan. At the time, it seemed weird. The treatment of us, on this particular city, was different than other cities wed been in on this tour. Were lined up to get onto the ship. They really emphasized, stay in line. You dont have time to go wander anywhere. And once we were on the ship, nobody was allowed to get off. Havi the uk, australia, canada, United States get sick and trace back to wuhan might have not been a good idea. We were immediately told that we would be leaving and bing, bang, boom. We were gone. 3, 2, 1, happy new year so i was at home with my wife and a couple of friends. We were cooking a dinner and celebrating the new years. I was snuggled on the couch with my sons watching the ball drop in new york. They say close to a million and a half people gathered here tonight. It was the first time, in a long time, that i had an opportunity to get my whole family back together. And i did get a phone call from my colleagues at cdc, that there was a mysterious new pneumonia that appeared not to be flu. We have a brand new virus thats jumped species from an animal to a human. And immediately, that was an alarm bell. It was clear the threat was real. The threat was serious. But on new years eve, if someone had told me a pandemic was coming, that wouldnt have surprised me. The world was overdue for one. And thats whats always kept me up at night. It is the perfect storm, and my worst nightmare. At the end of 2019 into 2020, the Trump White House wasnt focused on a Global Pandemic. But frankly, nobody was in washington. We do have breaking news tonight, President Trump has just been impeached. First of all, the president had just been impeached. We were going into an impeachment trial. Quite frankly, we were focused on iran that first week. The stunning sight, millions of iranians taking to the streets demanding revenge for the killing of their top military leader. There is a lot going on that is consuming all attention, the president s attention, the democrats attention in congress, the militarys attention beyond a Global Pandemic. Chinese Health Authorities are still working to identify the virus behind a pneumonia outbreak in the central city of wuhan. There were reports of unexplained pneumonia cases in wuhan, china and they were images of people in hazmat suits spraying down a seafood market. It kind of gave me a bit of a chill. Reading about people being locked into apartment buildings, streets being closed off, entire streets being cord onned. That is a signal of how serious this pathogen was. Happy new year. Happy new year. Were going to have a great year. As we ring in the new year, President Trump is in florida at maralago. When we wrote up our first situation report on january 1st, i had my first meetings to discuss this with the National Security council on january 2nd. Whats not publicly known is that behind the scenes, in the president ial daily brief, theres information being put in telling the president that theres something strange happening in the wuhan region of china. We felt that this had potential to be a very serious situation that had National Security implications. Dr. Redfield at the cdc, hes on the phone with dr. Fauci. It was ding, bing, back and forth. Both of us agreed that this looks, smells, and almost certainly is a new coronavirus. And the question is what are we going to do about it. Is this a pathogen that goes from animals to humans, or is this a pathogen that went from human to human . Bob was trying to get information in real time exactly what was going on over there. The frustration is that he wanted to get his team there and to go to wuhan and find out what was going on. But the chinese were not allowing that. I had strongly suggested that we send some cdc folks in to help out. And the president actually made the request to the president of china that we be able to come and assist. And the chinese are stonewalling. Theyre not letting them have access to the key sites. We had literally, you know, 20, 30 people ready to go. The fact that they were not allowed to go there in realtime and see what was going on was very disconcerting to us. So on january 8th, the cdc issues its first health alert connected to the pandemic. And President Trump heads to ohio, where he holds this big rally. Make America Great again. No, the president didnt publicly predict any danger. And americas future has never ever looked brighter, ever. In early january, china hasnt released the genome, or the genetic map of the virus. You need the genome of the virus to develop tests and drugs and vaccines, and there were significant delays in sharing it with the world. On january 12th, the chinese government, after resisting american requests for information, releases the genetic sequence of the virus. All right, all hands on deck. We gotta make a vaccine cause we dont know where this is going. Theres a lot of unknowns. It was just a matter of time before it arrived in the United States. To think otherwise would be completely naive. 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So patient zero, his sample had to be flown overnight to the cdc lab in atlanta. And he was told to quarantine. He was sent home. It was a big surprise when we got the call. The test was positive. It was january 20th. Patient zero had been identified. And now, officially, covid19 was on american soil. President trump is at the World Economic forum in davos. He answers for the first time on whether hes worried about the growing pandemic in china. We have it totally under control. Its one person coming in from china. And we have it under control. Its going to be just fine. I never thought it would be just fine. cause i didnt think we were doing what was necessary to make it just fine. The administration were still saying this was a problem overseas. This is a Serious Health situation in china, but i want to emphasize that the risk to the American Public currently is low. I think in january and february there was a sense that we still had this under control. Juaryasllour opportunity as a country to contain this virus before it spread like wildfire. And that opportunity was missed. At this point, covid19 is on american shores. The question is, was there a plan for the federal government to deal with a pandemic . And it turns out that successive administrations previously had already laid the groundwork for pandemic response. You know, president bush deserves a lot of credit for what he did in 2005. In august, 2005, president bush goes to crawford, texas, to his ranch for what is supposed to be a long vacation. He reads a book about the 1918 spanish flu pandemic by john barry. And it freaks him out. Sometime prior to the spring of 1918, an animal virus killed between 50 and 100 million people. And he sees barry talking about how these pandemics happen every hundred years or so, you have something massive like this. Hes looking at the calendar. Well hear all of us soon. President bush knows personal experience things he did not anticipate can happen, and can cause severe damage, and kill a lot of people. Lvn 9 11, kaert. Could the next big one be a Global Pandemic . By then, we had already had the sars experience, and then so called bird flu which was pretty scary so thats thats a pretty good reason to get your attention. He challenged us to come up a government wide national, not just federal government, strategy for dealing with it, should it happen. The president of the United States. And they get congress to appropriate money, real money. 7 billion behind this plan. If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare. And one day many lives could be needlessly lost because we failed to act today. As with all outbreaks, we got the periodic increase and interest in Public Health, infectious diseases, health security. And then eventually the interest would wane. And then you see a decrease in funds. So its a usual bust and boom cycle for Public Health, unfortunately. Tonight, outbreak, a new and deadly strain of flu. The Obama Administration has to deal with an outbreak almost immediately after obama becomes president. Every american should know that their entire government is taking the utmost precautions and preparations. Ts dealt with pretty quickly. And you go back to the cycle of complacency. There are other problems that are more pressing. But five years later, 2014, ebola. An outbreak of the disease so fierce, so deadly, even the word strikes terror. This scares the hell out of everybody. President obama and Vice President biden have authorized an unprecedented whole of government response to the ebola crisis. And the good news is were starting to see some results from that. When i was winding up my work on ebola, i met with the president and said to him, we need to build a permanent structure at the white house. The funding were asking for is needed to prevent and deal with future outbreaks and threats before they become epidemics. And he set up a pandemic prevention office, in the National Security council, to get us ready for that more deadly, more dangerous, more rapidly spreading epidemic that was going to come to this country some day. Donald trump takes office. He has some people in his National Security apparatus who served under president bush who see this also as a significant issue. More turnover in this white house than any other administration in recent history. The challenge is when you have had as many turnovers in this administration at the cabinet and subcabinet level, a lot of that work that would have been done during the transition has been lost. But eventually President Trumps third National Security advisor, john bolton decides to do away with the section of the National Security council that specifically deals with pandemics. Just eliminates it. Now the Trump Administration says they were just streamlining the National Security council and that some of those staffers were reassigned but continued to work on the issue of pandemic preparedness. Its not like the government stops worrying about a Global Pandemic. But make no mistake, at this point this is not a major priority in the Trump Administration. One thing that the Obama Administration left was a pandemic playbook. And on page nine of the pandemic playbook, it said, hey, heres something to worry about. A coronavirus. I dont know if the Trump Administration didnt Pay Attention to the playbook, i dont know if they didnt read it. What we do know is they didnt run the plays in that playbook and it would have made a big difference if they had. Define me. But i found a way to give myself more space. I met ocrevus, an infusion treatment thats two times a year. 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And the world didnt know it, but the virus had already jumped continents because of that commerce very early on. As february develops, the president proceeds to downplay the virus. You know a lot of people think that goes away in april with the heat. But behind the scenes, a group of people, current and former senior federal government officials, top doctors, are engaged in a series of email chains called red dawn. I had seen the movie, yes. A pretty good, cheesy, 1980s classic. Will wufl ver eens . Our group has been referred to as the wolverines, you know, how i guess were the group in the movie that saved the United States. These signs were out there pretty early. The surprise, to us, was that folks werent learning this out of the official channels that should have been broadcasting that information. On my email, some pentagon officials had essentially written off this pandemic as a bad flu. And so, this was my somewhat tongueincheek response to that. And i described napoleons retreat from moscow, just a little stroll gone bad. Pompeii, a bit of a dust storm. And wuhan, just a bad flu season. The red dawn group ultimately becomes fixated on a cruise ship in the far east, the diamond princess because of an outbreak of the coronavirus onboard. Today 70 new cases of the virus have been confirmed onboard the ship. Reading from the red don email chain, the case count is n