https://twitter.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1234588436289507332
Andrew Desiderio ✔@AndrewDesiderio

Rare joint statement from DOJ, DOS, DOD, DHS, ODNI, FBI, NSA, & CISA on foreign election interference ahead of Super Tuesday.





4:16 PM - Mar 2, 2020

https://twitter.com/GadiNBC/status/1234556992196313089
Gadi Schwartz ✔@GadiNBC

Health officials in King County Washington announce they are buying a motel property to house people recovering from #CoronaVirus - hoping to have it available by the end of the week. #Covid19

2:11 PM - Mar 2, 2020 · Kirkland, WA

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Coronavirus-patient-released-in-San-Antonio-went-15098649.php

By Mark Dunphy Updated 11:54 am CST, Monday, March 2, 2020

An evacuee from China who turned up "weakly positive" for the coronavirus after being released from quarantine over the weekend visited the North Star Mall before returning to isolation, authorities said during a news conference Monday.

The evacuee was out in the San Antonio community for slightly over 12 hours after she was released from quarantine, said Anita Kurian, assistant director of the Metropolitan Health District.

After her release, the evacuee checked into a Holiday Inn hotel near the airport. She took a hotel shuttle to North Star Mall, one of the region's busiest retail outlets, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Kurian said.

Officials said the evacuee was browsing and spent very little time in stores or talking to anyone. She spent much of her time at the mall eating alone at the food court.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03/02/how-is-coronavirus-outbreak-going-end-heres-how-similar-epidemics-played-out/

By William Wan

March 2, 2020 at 11:24 a.m. EST

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The new coronavirus spreads so widely, it simply becomes a fact of life.

This is in essence what happened with the 2009 H1N1 outbreak, also called swine flu. It spread quickly, eventually to an estimated 11 to 21 percent of the global population. The WHO declared it a pandemic, and there was widespread fear.

H1N1 turned out to be much milder than initially feared, causing little more than runny noses and coughs in most people. And H1N1 is now so commonplace, it’s simply seen as a part of the seasonal flus that come and go every year among the global population.

Early estimates on the fatality rate for H1N1 were much higher than the roughly 0.01 to 0.03 percent it turned out to be. Still, the CDC estimates that H1N1 killed 12,469 people in the United States during that first-year period from 2009 to 2010, infected 60.8 million cases and caused 274,304 hospitalizations. The true number is hard to ascertain because many who die of flu-related causes aren’t tested to see whether it was H1N1 or another flu strain.

As context, the seasonal flu has killed at least 18,000 people in the United States so far this season, according to the CDC.

One reason H1N1 is a good parallel because while much less fatal than SARS or MERS, it was deadlier in because of how infectious and widespread it turned out to be. And not to be alarmist, but another good parallel might be the 1918 Spanish flu, which had a 2.5 percent fatality rate, eerily close to what’s estimated for the coronavirus. CDC calls Spanish flu “the deadliest pandemic flu virus in human history," because of how it infected roughly one third of the world’s population and killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide. Spanish flu, however, differed in that it was deadly to young and old, while coronavirus has proven to be most lethal to the elderly and left young people relatively unscathed.

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https://twitter.com/MylesMill/status/1234279954592026626
Myles Miller ✔@MylesMill

BREAKING: @NYGovCuomo announces first case of #Coronavid19 in state. “The patient, a woman in her late thirties, contracted the virus while traveling abroad in Iran, and is currently isolated in her home.”

Myles Miller ✔@MylesMill

“The patient has respiratory symptoms, but is not in serious condition and has been in a controlled situation since arriving to New York.”

7:50 PM - Mar 1, 2020

https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1234269661900025857
Jim Sciutto ✔@jimsciutto

—>> Buttigieg unwilling to be reason Sanders is able to get “insurmountable” delegate lead on Super Tuesday, CNN reporting.

7:09 PM - Mar 1, 2020

https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1234273531157979137
Geoff Bennett ✔@GeoffRBennett

Representatives of both the Buttigieg and Biden campaigns have been in discussions about consolidating support around the former vice president, sources tell @craigmelvin and @mikememoli. However, both sides are downplaying expectations of an endorsement tonight.

7:25 PM - Mar 1, 2020

https://www.axios.com/cdc-lab-coronavirus-contaminated-6dc9726d-dea3-423f-b5ad-eb7b1e44c2e2.html

A top federal scientist sounded the alarm about what he feared was contamination in an Atlanta lab where the government made test kits for the coronavirus, according to sources familiar with the situation in Atlanta.

The Trump administration has ordered an independent investigation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lab, and manufacturing of the virus test kits has been moved, the sources said.

Why it matters: At the time the administration is under scrutiny for its early preparations for the virus, the potential problems at the lab became a top internal priority for some officials. But the Trump administration did not talk publicly about the Food and Drug Administration’s specific concerns about the Atlanta lab.

Senior officials are still not saying exactly what the FDA regulator found at the Atlanta lab.

The CDC lab in Atlanta developed the testing formula for the coronavirus test — which the government says works — and was manufacturing relatively small amounts of testing kits for laboratories around the country. This is where the lab ran into problems, per sources familiar with the situation.

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https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1234257133169934336
Jonathan Swan ✔@jonathanvswan

Numerous people across multiple government agencies have known about this but not disclosed it. The concerns about the Atlanta lab were raised in a conference call Thursday w multiple agencies including HHS, FDA, CDC.

https://www.axios.com/cdc-lab-coronavirus-contaminated-6dc9726d-dea3-423f-b5ad-eb7b1e44c2e2.html …
CDC lab for coronavirus test kits may have been contaminated
The Trump administration has ordered an independent investigation of the lab.

6:20 PM - Mar 1, 2020

https://twitter.com/cmarinucci/status/1234252611546570752
Carla Marinucci ✔@cmarinucci

New! BREAKING @PeteButtigieg to announce he is out of the presidential race, his staff now hearing the news in campaign call, sources tell us.

6:02 PM - Mar 1, 2020

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/01/politics/jimmy-carter-pete-buttigieg-democratic-presidential-primary/index.html


Democratic presidential candidate former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, left, meets with former President Jimmy Carter, center, at Buffalo Cafe in Plains, Georgia, Sunday, March 1, 2020.

PLAINS, Ga. (CNN)Former President Jimmy Carter sat down to an early morning breakfast with Pete Buttigieg Sunday in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, following the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor's disappointing showing in South Carolina.

Asked what he thinks of Buttigieg, Carter praised the former mayor and shared some candid commentary on his fight for the Democratic Party's nomination. The pair was joined by their spouses for the morning meal at the Buffalo Café.

Visit CNN's Election Center for full coverage of the 2020 race"I've liked him since I first met him. Year before last we built houses for Habitat for Humanity in South Bend, Indiana, because he was there," Carter told reporters. "We got to know him then and I've liked him ever since."

Carter then nodded to Buttigieg's uncertain path ahead, saying, "He doesn't know what he's going to do after South Carolina."

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