"This is the most aggressive and comprehensive effort to confront a foreign virus in modern history," Trump said in an Oval Office address Wednesday night. As soon as Trump's words describing a "foreign virus" hit the airwaves, Nükhet Varlik knew she'd heard them before. Similarly, she says, describing coronavirus as a "foreign virus" isn't helpful. Hung says describing coronavirus as a "foreign virus" is similarly problematic. "It is already a global pandemic, so it is too late and it is useless to just frame it as a 'foreign virus' and say we will be OK in just cutting off travel from foreign places.

Source: CNN March 12, 2020 22:07 UTC