Intelligence report warned of coronavirus crisis as early as November: Sources.
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper is interviewed on"This Week.", changing the patterns of life and business and posing a threat to the population, according to four sources briefed on the secret reporting.pandemic were detailed in a November intelligence report by the military's National Center for Medical Intelligence , according to two officials familiar with the document’s contents.
"The timeline of the intel side of this may be further back than we’re discussing," the source said of preliminary reports from Wuhan."But this was definitely being briefed beginning at the end of November as something the military needed to take a posture on." Ambulance medical staff arrive at Wuhan Red Cross Hospital with an elderly woman, who recovered from COVID-19, at Wuhan in China's central Hubei province, March 30, 2020.The NCMI report was made available widely to people authorized to access intelligence community alerts. Following the report’s release, other intelligence community bulletins began circulating through confidential channels across the government around Thanksgiving, the sources said.
Asked about the November warning last Sunday on ABC’s"This Week," Defense Secretary Mark Esper told Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos,"I can't recall, George. But we have many people who watch this closely. We have the premier infectious disease research institute in America, within the United States Army. So, our people who work these issues directly watch this all the time.
For his part, President Donald Trump has alternated between taking credit for early action and claiming that the coronavirus was a surprise to him and everyone else. He has repeatedly touted his Jan. 31 decision to restrict air travel with China, but at the same time, he spent weeks telling the public and top administration officials that there was nothing for Americans to fear.
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