Hi, I'm Dan Pramack, and welcome to Axios Recap, brought to you by Comcast. Today is Friday, March 12th,

and we're looking back at this same week last year. The week, America changed. This is our COVID-19 decision-makers series. Conversations about some of the most consequential

decisions made this time last year. Today, we're looking at the White House decision to shut

down travel from Europe. It went into effect on the Friday night of that week and was aimed

at stopping the flow of new cases

coming in from abroad. But arguably, it was too little too late because community spread was

already out of hand in the U.S. Dr. Anthony Fauci was part of making the Europe travel ban decision,

and he testified in support of it in front of Congress that week.

It's very clear that 70% of the new infections in the world are coming from that region,

from Europe, ceding other countries.

Dr. Fauci joins us today to talk about his policy discussions with President Trump,

his days of shuttling between Capitol Hill and the White House, and whether he still supports the actions taken during that week.

One year later.

That conversation in 15 seconds.

When was the moment you realized how bad this was going to be?

We were getting dribs and drabs of information from China that was, you know, it was a progression of, oh, my goodness, oh, my goodness, oh, my goodness, kind of thing, where, first of all,

the first phone call that I got

was from Bob Redfield, like New Year's Eve

in December 31st saying,

I just got a call from my colleagues in Europe,

and they have an outbreak in Wuhan,

and they think it's in a market,

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