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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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.