Medical staff members walking towards a military plane, which evacuated citizens of Russia and ex-Soviet countries from China's Wuhan province, at the Roshchino International Airport outside Tyumen, Russia, February 5. Yuri Shestak/Vsluh.ru/via REUTERS
ABC News: White House asks scientists to investigate origins of coronavirus
The coronavirus has killed hundreds of people in China.
The White House on Thursday asked U.S. scientists and medical researchers to investigate the scientific origins of the novel coronavirus, as misinformation about the outbreak spreads online.
The director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), in a letter to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, requested that scientific experts "rapidly" look into the origins of the virus in order to address both the current spread and "to inform future outbreak preparation and better understand animal/human and environmental transmission aspects of coronaviruses."
The national academies consist of private, nonprofit institutions charged with providing scientific support to the federal government.
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The president was on the phone with the leader of China...Did he ask him?
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