“As governor, I had to deal with a lot of different disasters and emergencies ...,” Terry Branstad said. “But this is very different.”
U.S. Ambassador to China and former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad said helping to manage the U.S. embassy’s response to the new coronavirus outbreak in China is “like nothing I’ve dealt with before."
“People had to work extraordinary hours to help evacuate the people from Wuhan,” he said. “We had people working really around the clock during that time, and it was very difficult, but we were very successful.” “When you’re the ambassador, you’re like the captain of the ship,” he said. “So it was critically important for me to be here and oversee the operation under this difficult circumstance.”
Story continuesAs of Thursday afternoon, health organizations had reported nearly 100,000 cases worldwide, including 80,000 in China. Across the world, there have been more than 3,300 deaths related to the outbreak, more than 85% of them in China.
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