{"id":51535,"date":"2020-03-03T17:31:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T22:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51535"},"modified":"2020-03-03T17:31:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T22:31:46","slug":"dod-covid-19-likely-to-be-a-pandemic-within-the-next-30-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51535","title":{"rendered":"DoD: Covid-19 \u201cLikely\u201d to be a Pandemic Within the Next 30 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/dod-covid-19-pandemic-30-days\/\">DoD: Covid-19 \u201cLikely\u201d to be a Pandemic Within the Next 30 Days<\/a> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a document obtained by Newsweek, Department of Defense officials said that Covid-19 will \u201clikely\u201d become a global pandemic within the next 30 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This comes after a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/us-soldier-coronavirus-in-south-korea-test-positive-2020-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">23-year-old soldier stationed in South Kore<\/a>a became the first member of the US armed forces to contract the illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThe DoD is concerned not only the impact COVID-19 has on mission readiness, but the risk to inadvertently spread the virus to the U.S. by returning members who may have been exposed,\u201d a senior Pentagon official told&nbsp;<em>Newsweek<\/em>\u2026<\/p><p>\u2026When asked for comment, Jessica R. Maxwell, a DOD spokesperson, said the DoD has \u201ccontingency plans in place and are taking steps to educate and safeguard our military and civilian personnel, family members and base communities in preventing widespread outbreak.\u201d But ultimately, \u201cCommanders of individually affected geographic commands will be and are issuing specific guidance to their forces as their situations may require.\u201d<\/p><p>\u2026The use of the term \u201cpandemic\u201d in the briefing documents described a global outbreak, whereas an \u201cepidemic\u201d would be confined to a country,\u201d a senior Pentagon official told&nbsp;<em>Newsweek<\/em>. During a pandemic, a large number of people in several countries or continents are affected, according to the CDC. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/coronavirus-department-defense-pandemic-30-days-1489876?fbclid=IwAR3Q7sfweTiC4S_1mOnUENeLLUU-imGMog9-ftgLG1AGlA7T2N8zj37GBN4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">source<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arguably, it\u2019s already a pandemic since it has reached&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/02\/25\/asia\/novel-coronavirus-covid-update-us-soldier-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">every continent except Antarctica<\/a>. Many people in the United States are paying attention and ratcheting up their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/how-to-prepare-quarantine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">preparedness for possible quarantines<\/a>&nbsp;and other measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Center for Medical Intelligence (the NCMI) raised the Risk of Pandemic warning from WATCHCON 2 to WATCHCON 1, according to the document obtained by Newsweek. WATCHCON 2 is used in the event of a \u201cprobable crisis\u201d and WATCHCON 1 means the crisis is imminent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DoD: Covid-19 \u201cLikely\u201d to be a Pandemic Within the Next 30 Days In a document obtained by Newsweek, Department of Defense officials said that Covid-19 will \u201clikely\u201d become a global pandemic within the next 30 days. This comes after a&nbsp;23-year-old soldier stationed in South Korea became the first member of the US armed forces to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28817,29011,607,5756,6705],"class_list":["post-51535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-pandemic","tag-the-organic-prepper","tag-us-department-of-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51537,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51535\/revisions\/51537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}