Tulsi Gabbard gives important take on coronavirus preparedness

there are major corona virus outbreaks in Japan South Korea in Italy in Japan all schools are closed for at least the next month and yet the United States still receives flights from those three countries; in fact, we're not even controlling arrivals the virus Congresswoman and Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii says that needs to change, she joins us tonight: thank you so much for coming, thank you Leigh, close routes or inconvenience passengers It has an economic cost, do you think we should do it? anyway, tell us why we do it because, first of all, let's look at the first action that the Trump administration took to suspend flights from China to protect the safety, health and well-being of the American people to prevent the spread of

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here on our shores similarly, this is what needs to happen with Japan, South Korea and Italy, these other countries that are going through a serious outbreak that they are dealing with and as you said, controls are still not being done no only upon the arrival of people. come here, but what I think needs to be done is that people should get tested before they get on the plane in that case and in that case, if people get tested, they come back negative, then they can go about their business, This will have some economic benefits.

Impact, there's no doubt about it, but that short-term impact of taking this action will pale in comparison to the economic hardships and challenges we will face in this country if these flights are allowed to continue. There are people who come here potentially infected with this. virus and then it is allowed to continue to spread the hardships in the lives of the American people and the hardships in our economy will be far reaching and longer lasting, so to put this into context for our viewers, you represent, of course, the state. of Hawaii, which I bet has more direct flights to Asia than anywhere else in the United States, is a major source of revenue for its state, so this would mean Hawaii

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s a big hit, but is still in favor of If you are concerned, we must have foresight and recognize that the priority of our leaders is to ensure the safety and health of the people of my home state of Hawaii, the people of our country, and taking this step now is necessary to be able to achieve it. that's because if we don't, then it will be too late, then the

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n root and again we are seeing the impact on jobs, the impact on schools, the impact YES in a state like ours that depends on largely from tourism, which will be very far away. more lasting and devastating no, that's true, so what would you say?

I mean, this is a conversation that's come up a couple of times in the last week, but every time it's brought up by people who bring it up or denounce it as xenophobic, what would you say? to respond to that is to look at the facts and look at the reality unfortunately there has been some xenophobia around this outbreak that started in China that really needs to be denounced what we are talking about is the United States, the American people and how small this is global community and how essential it is that we work with other countries to be able to prevent this from becoming a full-blown pandemic, which is why I want to make a direct call to President Trump right now to break through the bureaucracy. break through the bureaucracy that we are seeing from agencies like the CDC and the FDA to expand the testing criteria so that anyone who has symptoms can actually get a test and to ensure that these tests are available is in a doctor's office in a hospital at our airports or even like they do in countries like Scotland and South Korea, there is a self-service station where you can come in and get tested and be in and out in less than 10 minutes. instead of having the kind of lengthy testing that we're doing now, where the CDC only tests very few people because of their strict criteria and then you have to wait four days if you're one of those people who potentially gets tested if you have the virus putting yourself in a place where you're exposing other people and putting them at risk we have to get up to speed on this it seems like it seems like a no-brainer for sure Congressman, thank you very much for saying that you're one of the few that appreciates it.