all right tonight the White House is
declaring a public health emergency over
the corona virus outbreak anybody who
has spent time in China in the last two
weeks you can just forget about coming
here you're not gonna be allowed in if
you are American they'll quarantine you
they haven't done this in 50 years by
the way they will quarantine you for two
weeks if you're not American good luck
now instead of reporting on the urgency
of this virus which is very big deal
actually 12,000 people worldwide now
have it the quote journalists over at
CNN are not surprisingly trying to spin
this into a race issue complaining that
the White House Task Force just isn't
diverse enough take a look at this
headline at a CNN I quote coronavirus
task force another example of trump
administration's lack of diversity I'm
sorry guys you know what time in place
time and place this virus is actually a
pretty big deal it's infected nearly
12,000 people for you to be talking
about that at a time like this well
we'll see what the doctor has to say
joining me right now Fox News
contributor and professor of medicine at
NYU Langone Medical Center dr. mark
Siegel good to see you again doctor it's
good to see you
what's your reaction well I think
viruses are everywhere they obey public
health laws but they don't obey race
they don't obey gender and I think we
don't even need to be worried about
political correctness in terms of
borders what we need to worry about of
course is China
whereas you just said the virus 99.5% of
this virus is in China so it's a good
idea to cut off travel to China it's a
good idea for us to send boots on the
ground over to China which we're now
doing and in terms of this task force
mm-hmm what matters isn't race it isn't
gender it's who it is now I want to talk
about a couple of these people
Nancy Meza Nair who I actually know has
been a public health officer since 1995
she spread vaccines all over the world
you know what she issues the director of
the National Center for immunization and
respiratory diseases guess what this is
a respiratory disease she's exactly the
right person to be on the task force
happens to the woman happens
about Tony Falchi we've interviewed
several times on Fox and I interviewed
him this past week tony is 79 years old
I bet if he had been excluded CNN one of
the elder ageism 79 year old guy you got
a woman but it's never enough tony is by
the way the top infectious disease
expert in the country we have the head
of the CDC Robert Redfield you know what
he is
one of the top VIPRE ologists in the
country guess what this is a virus Alex
a czar runs HHS I don't care what gender
or race he is the head of HHS commands a
one trillion dollar budget he's the
exact right person to be on this task
force to race like a it's like every
chance they get right he's presidents
damned if he does he's damned if he
doesn't right I mean we've seen that
Iran's a great example I mean I told the
viewer about that one last night because
you know they shoot down our drone and
what happens that the the mainstream
media and the left freaks out because
he's not doing enough they effectively
wanted to send him into World War 3 to
go after the Iranians and then when he
does actually take out a terrorist they
they say it's an assassination so now
here you've got a task force that's as
you point out highly credentialed trying
to deal with the issue at hand and
they're still complaining not enough I
want to go a step further I've been
following these outbreaks since before
9/11 especially after 9/11 and I've seen
the CDC go hysterical and overreact I
don't want to name names but I've seen
them they've learned over the years this
is the best Task Force I have ever seen
by a longshot and it's not proven by the
fact that we only have six cases in the
United States we're doing the right
thing isolation identification contact
tracing you know and by the way just
wait for it because I'm sure somebody's
gonna be talking about how it's
xenophobic to say okay if you've been in
China you can't come here and that's
what we're saying I mean there's now a
limit you cannot you can't go to China
right now the airlines have cancelled
all flights and and
the administration has said look if
you've been in China we're gonna
quarantine you if you're American if
you're not American you're not even
coming here if you've been to China I
want to comment on that because we're
fear Laden here we have hysteria here
but here's where hysteria is playing out
the masks on the streets which are
ridiculous with six cases but the idea
of cutting off travel to an endemic area
where this virus explodes right good
Public Health yeah nothing about know
you know somebody's gonna say it's
racist I'm just waiting for that it's
coming necessary and it may actually
help stand out the virus but what isn't
necessary is panicking here with so few
cases thank you very much dr. Siegel
good sutures stay healthy