Corona Virus Public Health Emergency Timeline
*** See timeline discrepancy at the bottom
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January 19, 2020 |
Typhoid Tom walks into an urgent care clinic in Snohomish County, Washington with flu symptoms. He tells them he just returned from Wuhan, China and tells the clinician that he read a CDC alert about a novel coronavirus outbreak in China. The local and state health departments were notified. Washington state Department of Health notified CDC Emergency Operations Center. Case Report: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001191 |
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January 20, 2020 |
The CDC confirmed that Typhoid Tom tested positive for 2019-nCoV Case Report: |
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January 30, 2020 |
LA Times reported that the WHO declared a global public health emergency |
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January 31, 2020 |
HHS Secretary Alex Azar declares a national public health emergency https://www.phe.gov/emergency/news/healthactions/phe/Pages/2019-nCoV.aspx |
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February 29, 2020 |
Governor Jay Inslee issued Proclamation 20-05 declaring that a state of emergency existed in all counties in the state of Washington. He directed the Washington State Department of Health and the Washington State Military Department Emergency Management Division under the authority of the Adjutant General Washington consider the State Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan operational. https://www.governor.wa.gov/sites/default/files/proclamations/20-05%20Coronavirus%20%28final%29.pdf |
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March 4, 2020 March 4 (con’t) |
Idaho Governor Little announced the creation of a team to assist in Idaho’s preparation for the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19). He also announced a new website to check for updates. Little’s Corona Virus Working Group https://web.archive.org/web/20200314154325/https://coronavirus.idaho.gov/governors-working-group/ Corona virus information website https://web.archive.org/web/20200306161407/https://coronavirus.idaho.gov/ |
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March 6, 2020 |
In a press release it was announced that the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee approved Governor Little’s request to transfer $2 million to the Governor’s Emergency Fund to help with Idaho’s response to the 2019 novel corona virus (COVID- 19). In addition, Idaho was guaranteed $4,568,000 in federal funds after Congress approved Trump’s supplemental spending for coronavirus preparedness and response. |
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March 11, 2020 |
The World Health Organization announced that worldwide detection of the coronavirus (COVID-19) had progressed to the level of a pandemic including in the United States. Source: Governor Little’s Proclamation, March 13, 2020. |
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March 13, 2020 |
President Donald Trump issued a Proclamation declaring a National Emergency Concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease |
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March 13, 2020 |
Idaho Governor Brad Little signed a “proactive” emergency declaration to prevent the spread of coronavirus in Idaho. [There were no cases of COVID in Idaho at the time of the declaration.] The declaration activated the Idaho Emergency Operations Plan and made available state Emergency Disaster Funds. Proclamation |
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March 13, 2020 |
The Idaho Press announced that the first case of COVID disease was found in Idaho. |
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March 22, 2020 |
Central District Health announced confirmation of “community spread” when a new coronavirus case was discovered in Blaine County after a confirmed case of COVID-19 on March 19, 2020. The county was put under a shelter-in-place order by Idaho H&W. https://eiph.idaho.gov/Home/Hot%20Topics/Coronavirus/Press%20Releases/Blaine_County_COVID.pdf |
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March 25, 2020 |
Governor Little issued a proclamation amending his March 13, 2020 proclamation stating that “there exists a condition of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the state of Idaho. He found that there exists and “extreme emergency” within the State of Idaho. Press Release: The Idaho Office of Emergency Management, a part of the Idaho Military Division, is the key emergency response planner and coordinator for interagency preparedness in Idaho. |
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April 1, 2020 |
Governor Brad Little suspended the state’s election law and mandated voting by mail for both the Primary and Consolidated Elections based upon his declaration of a state of emergency in Idaho. |
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April 2, 2020 |
Governor Little suspends rules to increase access to telehealth, ease licensing for medical professionals fighting coronavirus. |
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April 9, 2020 |
President Donald Trump declared that a major disaster exists in the state of Idaho making federal funds available to the state for the pandemic retroactive to January 20, 2020. |
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April 9, 2020 April 9 (con’t) |
FEMA response to Trump’s declaration of a major disaster for the State of Idaho. (FEMA-4534-DR dated April 9 posted May 5th retroactive to January 20, 2020 . Legal authorities: Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5121. [Note: Sidebar FEMA Docket FEMA-2020-0001 All states and territories. A fellow researcher produced a formatted list for easy searching and document access. https://thetechnocratictyranny.com/PDFS/2021_09_09_Disaster_Determinations.htm ] Posted by FEMA on May 4, 2020 https://www.regulations.gov/document/FEMA-2020-0001-0071 Federal Register No. 2020-09513 Michael O’Hare was appointed to act as the Federal Coordinating Officer |
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April 22, 2020 |
Governor Brad Little issues an extension of the emergency proclamations issued on March 13, 2020 and March 25, 2020. Little cites President Donald Trump’s April 9, 2020 declaration that a major disaster exists in Idaho. |
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Archive Proclamations and Executive Orders - August 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210806052000/https://coronavirus.idaho.gov/governors-actions/ Timeline Discrepancy Formally the public health emergency began with HHS Secretary Alex Azar’s declaration on January 31, 2020. Donald Trump’s proclamation declaring a national emergency announced on March 13, 2020 was made effective beginning March 1, 2020. When Trump approved Idaho’s declaration of emergency for FEMA funds, the effective date was made January 20, 2020 – same date the CDC confirmed the diagnosis of the first case found in Washington state. The discrepancy is in Tennessee. Tennessee activated their State Health Operations Center on January 16, 2020 – four days before the CDC tested and confirmed the first case of COVID-19 in the U.S. Oakridge National Laboratories is in Tennessee. They’ve changed their website so I had to go to the Internet archive to retrieve their info on Human Genome Project. Notice they were involved in gene therapy and pharmacogenomics. . . . Just saying
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