NPR obtained a secret recording of Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) warning a private audience three weeks ago about how the coronavirus would have dire effects on the United States.
He said that the data he was shown indicated that the virus would be like the 1918 Spanish flu and warned the corporate attendees to stop travel to Europe and other places and take other precautions.
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