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The Fox News Rundown

Evening Edition: Sec. Azar Says Taiwan Gave Us First Coronavirus Warning

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

News, Daily News, Politics

3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, speaking to the Heritage Foundation Thursday, said that it was Taiwan that gave us the first indication there was new, worrisome disease emerging from China. Taiwan is not a member of the WHO and is sometimes a point of contention between the United States and China. FOX’s Eben Brown speaks to Dean Cheng, Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, about Secretary Azar's comments and what they mean for our relations with both Taiwan and China. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Steve Doosey, and this is the Fox News rundown.

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Thursday, January 14th, 2021. I'm Eben Brown. A year after the first American case of COVID-19,

0:31.0

U.S. health officials say the virus, which originated in China, came to our attention

0:36.0

from a nation long ignored by world bodies.

0:39.2

Back in 2019, when they started hearing reports about the strange new disease cropping up.

0:47.0

Taiwan sent a letter to the WHO and they also informed their close friends here in the United States.

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It's been a year since the US first recorded a domestic case of what was then called

1:06.7

the novel coronavirus or SARS coronavirus number two. We now call it COVID-19. We all know the virus first appeared in the city of Wuhan

1:16.1

in the People's Republic of China, but one of China's long-lasting enemies, a smaller nation

1:21.9

that China works so hard to make invisible to the rest of the world,

1:26.4

is who rang the alarm.

1:27.8

One of the very first ways the U.S. government was notified of a novel virus in mainland China

1:32.2

was by people from Taiwan. of a

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notified China was by people from Taiwan.

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