Sen. Richard Burr Told Private GOP Audience Three Weeks Ago That Coronavirus Would Be Dire: Secret Recording

Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) warned a private group of business executives three weeks ago that the novel coronavirus would have severe impacts on the nation, according to a secret recording obtained by NPR reporter Tim Mak. At the same time that President Trump was telling the public that the virus would probably “disappear,” Burr, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told the members-only Tar Heel Circle in North Carolina that the virus was “probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic.”
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