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Trump: US Has 'Shut Down' Coronavirus Coming in From China

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   President Donald Trump says the United States has "shut down" the
   coronavirus coming in from China even as officials in San Francisco
   report the ninth confirmed U.S. case.

   "We've offered China help but we can't have thousands of people coming
   in who may have this problem, the coronavirus," Trump told Fox News in
   a special Super Bowl pregame interview. "So we're going to see what
   happens, but we did shut it down."

   National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien told CBS's Face the Nation
   that the administration has offered China help -- specifically sending
   experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But China
   has yet to accept the U.S. offer.

   "So far, the Chinese have been more transparent certainly than in past
   crises and we appreciate that," O'Brian said. "We've got tremendous
   expertise. This is a worldwide concern. We want to help our Chinese
   colleagues if we can."

   CDC experts are on the ground in Kazakhstan, Secretary of State Mike
   Pompeo said. Kazakhstan shares a long eastern border with China. Pompeo
   was in the Kazakh capital Nur-Sultan Sunday.

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