Obama DHS Secretary: ‘A Travel Ban ... Is Not the Answer’ to Coronavirus Problem

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JOHNSON: “There may be other similar communities that we don’t know about because it’s very hard to get test kits. That has to be the number one priority right now, as well as communicating clearly to the American public, either at the national level or the state or local level, what they should be doing in terms of their own behavior, about widely attended gatherings, about certain actions to wash your hands, whether it’s safe to send your kids to school, whether it’s safe to go to a sporting event. There needs to be much clearer guidance because the overall goal has to be reversing the trend lines so that the virus is not spreading as fast as it’s spread in the last three weeks here in this country. But the virus is here, Andrea, and so simply issuing an order, a travel ban, which sounds good to a lot of people, is not the answer. And even if that was the correct response, there were probably two or three weeks doing it. But as you pointed out also, the travel ban has loads of exceptions in it."