This U.S. Senator Saw The Coronavirus Pandemic Coming

Sen. Tom Cotton speaks with reporters in Washington, D.C. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters)

National Review: The Senator Who Saw the Coronavirus Coming

While others slept, Tom Cotton was warning anyone who would listen that the coronavirus was coming for America.

On January 22, one day before the Chinese government began a quarantine of Wuhan to contain the spread of the virus, the Arkansas senator sent a letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar encouraging the Trump administration to consider banning travel between China and the United States and warning that the Communist regime could be covering up how dangerous the disease really was. That same day, he amplified his warnings on Twitter and in an appearance on the radio program of Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade.

At the time, the Senate impeachment trial was dominating the news cycle. The trial, which lasted from January 16 to February 5, had even blotted out coverage of the Democratic presidential primary in the days leading up to the Iowa caucuses. When the first classified briefing on the virus was held in the Senate on January 24, only 14 senators reportedly showed up.

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WNU Editor: WNU's first post on this pandemic was on January 20 .... Deadly Coronavirus From China Has Global Health Officials On Alert (January 20, 2020). One regret that I have is that I first heard about this outbreak a week or two before I did my first post (on January 20) describing this outbreak. I knew then that it was an important story because the Chinese were treating it very seriously. What's my excuse. Everyone's focus (including mine) was on President Trump's impeachment trial. Upon reflection .... I felt then that impeachment was a waste of time, and after two months my feelings have only become stronger that the entire impeachment circus was a waste of time.

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