CoronaVirus Timeline

>>8457311 (pb)

>- The REAL first case was November 17, 2019

Great timeline, but it leaves out a critical early event.

Sep 18, 2019, 60 days before the first case in Wuhan.

Trump signed Executive Order 13887

Modernizing Influenza Vaccines in the United States to Promote National Security and Public Health

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/09/24/2019-20804/modernizing-influenza-vaccines-in-the-united-states-to-promote-national-security-and-public-health

Section 1: Findings

1a:

…This situation is called an influenza pandemic (pandemic). Unlike seasonal influenza, a pandemic has the potential to spread rapidly around the globe…

1c: …vaccines must be reformulated…in the event of a pandemic

1d: …current domestic enterprise for manufacturing influenza vaccines has critical shortcomings…

1e: …[current] approach is insufficient to meet the response needs in the event of a pandemic, which can emerge rapidly and with little warning…

Section 2: Policy

…This order directs actions to reduce the United States' reliance on egg-based influenza vaccine production; to expand domestic capacity of alternative methods that allow more agile and rapid responses to emerging influenza viruses; to advance the development of new, broadly protective vaccine candidates that provide more effective and longer lasting immunities…

Sec. 3. National Influenza Vaccine Task Force

…The Task Force shall be co-chaired by the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Health…

Plus a senior official from each of the following.

(i) DoD

(ii) DoJ

(iii) Dept of Agr

(iv) Dept of VA

(v) Dept of Homeland Sec

(vi) FDA

(vii) CDC

(viii) NIH

(ix) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

(x) Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).

VACCINE PRODUCTION TO BE DONE DOMESTICALLY

DOD CONTROL, NOT CDC

TASK FORCE ALREADY IN PLACE

RED TAPE REMOVED, NOT SUBJECT TO CDC OR FDA OVERSIGHT