This is not surprising. One of the first statements I made about Covid-19 was that it will be first found in major cities. Mr. Cotton is typical of people in government on the front lines of these emergencies. He takes risks that he believes he can handle. He couldn't. It is not sincerely his fault. He does the unthinkable because of his dedication to leadership. 

While Mr. Cotton is a leader and very brave to assist with the assessment of how best to protect the public, HE SHOULD HAVE PROCEEDED with his job AFTER BEING ADVISED by emergency management personnel from US Homeland Security. That didn't happen, so Mr. Cotton went forward with the knowledge at hand and this was the result.

The USA government managed by Trump is incapable of leading and providing the best way forward with any emergency. The first question is "Who is in charge?" Denying the seriousness of this virus and calling it no more dangerous than the flu is opening the country and it's people to danger.

State Governors have no one to turn to at this point. The CDC, NIH, WHO and major hospitals like the Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, John Hopkins in Baltimore and the New York Presbyterian Hospital along with University of California hospitals should be tapped for advice and BEST PRACTICES.

March 9, 2020
By Bernadette Hogan and Kato Sheenly

The head of the Port Authority (click here) — who has been visiting local airports — has the coronavirus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday, as the state’s infection toll rose by 37, to now 142 patients.

Cuomo said he himself “could have been in contact” with infected PA Executive Director Rick Cotton but hasn’t been tested because he’s an “improbable positive,” meaning he isn’t likely to have the virus.

The governor didn’t say how Cotton may have contracted the potentially deadly bug but noted that the executive director “has been at the airports, obviously, when many people were coming back with the virus.

Cuomo specifically mentioned JFK Airport in Queens.

Cotton “will be working from home, and now the senior team that works with Rick will also be tested so several of them may be on quarantine and they’ll be working from home,” Cuomo said.

The PA chief and his “senior leadership team” are under a 14-day quarantine, officials later added....