U.S. officials admitted Tuesday that the United States is likely to suffer a coronavirus outbreak, one day after the Trump administration requested $2.5 billion to help slow the spread of the virus.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that it now expects a large increase in U.S. cases, and urged Americans to prepare for "the expectation that this might be bad."
Nancy Messonnier, the director of the Center DC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said that "it's not so much of a question of if this will happen in this country any more but a question of when this will happen." She also warned that "the disruption of daily life might be severe."
U.S. health secretary Alex Azar admitted during a Senate hearing on Tuesday that "we cannot hermetically seal off the United States to a virus . . . and we need to be realistic about that."
There are currently 14 domestic cases confirmed in the country, with an additional three cases among those evacuated from China aboard U.S.-chartered flights, and 40 aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Asia.
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