Science and medical expertise must guide them, not politics.

I think the decision to bring in private labs is a positive decision. It certainly increases the capacity, but that is only going to deal with people who are in a diagnostic or clinical setting.

I think that we could have made a decision to adopt the testing protocols and kits used in other countries that have allowed them to ramp up very quickly.

I think that some kind of White House coordinator was needed.

Public officials at all levels of government need to take steps against discrimination.

I think, on the competence side, the Government has to provide the leadership and the funding to deliver this response.

I don't think they have been prepared for dealing with that, whether that is working with FEMA to temporarily ramp up capacity in those hospitals.

I think that is a product of some bad decisions made at the CDC, and a lack of a real effort to accelerate testing around the country.

Leading the response shouldn't be your side gig.

Congress has to continue to do its own work on the coronavirus.

Five years ago I wrote a piece where I said that Congress should amend the Stafford Act to add epidemics as a disaster for the purpose of the Stafford Act.

there is no reason why other countries--South Korea--are so far ahead of us, 100,000-plus tests in South Korea, less than 5,000 in the United States.

it is my studied opinion that we will never reduce that to zero due to trade and due to travel of Americans and Americans' family members.

We ought to be reaching out to them to see what we can do to help them.

It is impossible, impossible to cutoff the flow of people from China to the United States.

What we need to do is to monitor the people who have been in China recently who are here in the U.S.

President Obama launched a whole-of-government effort, he appointed me to lead a team at the White House to coordinate it.

Epidemic response should not be a partisan issue. The coronavirus will certainly not ask anyone's political affiliation before infecting them.