The next day, the first American tested positive for the new virus. He was a man in his thirties who had traveled a week before from Wuhan to Seattle. Still the United States government was showing no sign of alarm; the only action the CDC had taken was to issue a travel alert, and to screen travelers entering the United States from China for fever. “It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control,” said President Trump. “It’s going to be just fine.”
