Disaster in motion: 3.4 million travelers poured into the U.S. as coronavirus pandemic erupted. 'The numbers are clearly alarming' one infectious disease specialist says.
The latest news and biggest developments to keep you informed about the deadly pandemic.has spread and penetrated so broadly, so deeply and so quickly in the United States. It also helps explain why Americans, no matter where they live, must continue to heed the warnings of health officials to self distance and why the virus likely was here far earlier than first realized.
MORE: Coronavirus government response updates: New death projections raise pressure on Trump to call for nationwide restrictions A worker checks a delivery of 64 hospital beds from Hillrom to The Mount Sinai Hospital during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in New York City, U.S., March 31, 2020.
"The United States banned travel to China 12 days after the world heard there was an outbreak of severe pneumonia in Wuhan. ... The problem was, it was too late," said Dr. Todd Ellerin, chief of Infectious Disease at South Shore Health and an ABC News Consultant."Even though there had only been 12 confirmed cases in the U.S. on the day President Trump announces the travel ban, the reality was there were many more unconfirmed cases.
Julian Fernandez Mascaraque, 59, attends the burial of his mother Rosalia Mascaraque, 86, during the coronavirus outbreak in Zarza de Tajo, central Spain, Wednesday, April 1, 2020.Combined with those from China, that's more than 3.4 million people from just four countries -- nearly half, about 1.5 million, Americans returning home. Travel from Italy and Spain wasn't shut down until March 13, with U.K. arrivals restricted a few days later.
"This is not new," said John Brownstein, an epidemiologist at Boston Children's Hospital and an ABC News Consultant."We've seen this with H1N1, SARS, Zika. We should have had the infrastructure to prepare for this. And we didn't. "SARS-CoV2, the virus that causes COVID-19, the most disruptive infection the world has seen in the last 100 years, has some features that make it impossible to completely contain," Ellerin said.
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