Asked if the European travel ban will have a significant impact on reducing the spread of community cases, NIH official Dr. Anthony Fauci replied, 'A firm yes.”
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Welch, not satisfied with the response, turned to Fauci, who backed up his colleague and the president. Fauci named Italy, France and Germany as the European countries with the most cases. "Because if you look at the numbers it’s very clear that 70 percent of new infections in world are coming from that region, from Europe," Fauci said."Of the 35 or more states that have infections, 30 of them now, most recently, have gotten them from a travel related case from that region."Asked what changed between Wednesday’s hearing and Trump’s evening announcement, Fauci said,"the dynamics of the outbreak changed.
Redfield added,"We are really continuing to watch the whole world at this point in time… with Europe driving the global outbreak, for sure, for the last couple days." "I will look into that in detail and get back to your office as soon as I can," Redfield said, deferring judgement to local health labs before having Fauci intervene with a startling answer.
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