Jim Cramer, host of CNBC’s Mad Money, is warning that the threat of the coronavirus outbreak to U.S. commerce and American lives is underappreciated.
“This is real. It probably can’t be contained,” Cramer told The Street, adding that “I think that we must be realistic.”
The coronavirus has @JimCramer bewildered. He joins @byKatherineRoss on the floor of the @NYSE to break it down. Read Jim’s full take on @RealMoney: https://t.co/5fyIA5SOnO pic.twitter.com/OFInmL5Iqh
— TheStreet (@TheStreet) February 21, 2020
To support his point, Cramer referred to the passengers who recently fled the Diamond Princess, the contaminated cruise ship docked in Japan, only to board a plane to the United States that contained people infected with the virus. The plane was supposed to be virus-free.
“It’s just the law of numbers now,” Cramer said.
Earlier on Friday, Cramer posted that “lives are at stake,” apparently because of the virus, which originated in China.
China–pharma. this will cost us lives.. We need pills… we need pharma… we need our medicines.. lives are at stake
— Jim Cramer (@jimcramer) February 21, 2020
“China–pharma. this will cost us lives.. We need pills… we need pharma… we need our medicines.. lives are at stake,” he wrote on Twitter.
