What did Kayleigh McEnany predict about the pandemic in February 2020?
Kayleigh McEnany, National press secretary, Trump 2020 campaign ·
We will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here.
Already here: first U.S. case Jan. 21
McEnany said diseases like the coronavirus would not come here. The first U.S. case had already been confirmed five weeks earlier, on January 21, 2020.
The CDC had confirmed the first U.S. case of the novel coronavirus on January 21, 2020, five weeks before the remark, in a Washington state resident who had returned from Wuhan (CDC).
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- Interview with Trish Regan on Fox Business.