Trump: 'We're rated No. 1 (in being prepared).' While the U.S. ranked No.1 overall in the Global Health Security Index by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the report found that no country is fully prepared to handle an epidemic or pandemic.
President Donald Trump and top U.S. health officials addressed the nation Wednesday evening as governments worldwide worked to combat the spread of. Their comments came as the U.S. saw its first instance of infection in a person without relevant travel history or exposure to another patient known to have the virus.
Less than an hour later, the CDC confirmed the California case involving a person who did not travel to China and was not exposed to another person with the virus. According to the CDC, there have been at least 29 million flu illnesses and 16,000 deaths from flu so far this season. The season is not yet over, but the number of estimated flu deaths so far this year is below the range that Trump cited.Vaccine in 'fairly quick manner'
During a Feb. 17 meeting with USA TODAY’s editorial board meeting, Fauci said it would take at least one year to 18 months to make a vaccine that is safe and effective and ready to distribute.Still, Fauci said the vaccine will be important and would be useful if COVID-19 returns next year as a seasonal respiratory virus.
The United States scored in the bottom tier of countries for access to health care “owing to lack of governmentally guaranteed access to healthcare plus high out-of-pocket expenditures per capita,” the report said.Vice President Mike Pence, tapped to oversee the Trump administration's coronavirus response, cited his experience handling MERS in Indiana, where the first U.S. case was confirmed.
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