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House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy says the challenge for the United States when it comes to coronavirus is "the lack of accountability coming from China."
"Our scientists from the very beginning have been communicating, but they have not been as open," said McCarthy.
"We now find that it started in November. Maybe if they'd told us, then we could have been something much better."
Two new coronavirus cases have been reported in Americans who had traveled on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, health officials said Wednesday.
The new cases bring the U.S. tally to 59.
The CDC on Tuesday warned the American public to prepare for an an outbreak of the disease, which has spawned more than 80,000 cases around the world but relatively few so far in the U.S.
The count includes 14 people who traveled back from outbreak areas in China, or their spouses; three people who were evacuated from the central China city of Wuhan; and 42 Americans, passengers on the Diamond Princess cruise ship who were evacuated by the federal government to the U.S. from where the ship was docked in Japan.
On Capitol Hill, senior lawmakers called for a bipartisan spending package that would give federal, state and local officials more resources
Congress in recent years took a similar approach with the opioid epidemic, pumping out federal dollars for treatment and prevention.

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