‘America First’ doesn’t always map well onto a disease that can hop borders with just a droplet and a plane ticket
But attempting to harden borders isn’t a long-term solution to a crisis that requires cross-border cooperation. Epidemiologists and other experts say such limits might help slow the spread of disease by a few days or weeks — at best. So as the disease spreads around the world and through the U.S., the point is becoming increasingly moot, even as Trump expands travel restrictions to hard-hit countries like Iran, South Korea and Italy.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Tuesday that China had “taken social distancing to its farthest extreme” — to an extent that couldn’t be replicated in the U.S. In addition to public outcry around a major movement restriction, “The courts would strike it down because it would be disproportionate and it would affect many, many people who are not infected or exposed to a pathogen,” said Lawrence Gostin, a professor of global health law at Georgetown Law and director of the World Health Organization’s Center on Global Health Law.
While the U.S. already funds 22 percent of the WHO budget, the agency is asking donors for $675 million to help fight the virus, warning that it is. Yet so far, it has received less than half of its goal, even after getting a $125 million injection from the European Union.
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