Squandered time How the Trump administration lost control of the coronavirus crisis

[Yeshua1]

Every country is responsible for dealing with healthcare emergencies that come their way America is doing a pathetic job of protecting us.

That would be due to the Dems in Congress!

 

[Yeshua1]

Trump did not say that.

Trump stated that the response of the Media was a hoax, but not the crisis iktself!

 

[just-want-peace]

Trump stated that the response of the Media was a hoax, but not the crisis iktself!

One wonders how someone with such delusions and lack of critical comprehension skills can actually survive - must be one of the "paid" agitators on "internet patrol", so he doesn't have to really believe what he posts! JUST POST IT!!

 

[AustinC]

In the coronavirus pandemic, we're making decisions without reliable data

 

[RighteousnessTemperance&]

In the coronavirus pandemic, we're making decisions without reliable data

"The most valuable piece of information for answering those questions would be to know the current prevalence of the infection in a random sample of a population and to repeat this exercise at regular time intervals to estimate the incidence of new infections. Sadly, that’s information we don’t have."

 

[Yeshua1]

In the coronavirus pandemic, we're making decisions without reliable data

The Media and dems are sure acting as if they have "valid data", at least enough to make Trump look bad!

 

[Chickenlittle]

https://wapo.st/2xlU4M5


The coronavirus had already begun to spiral out of control around the world when Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, during routine Senate testimony, made a surprising claim.

“As of today, I can announce that the CDC has begun working with health departments in five cities to use its flu surveillance network to begin testing individuals with flu-like symptoms for the Chinese coronavirus,” Azar said. “This effort will help see whether there is broader spread than we have been able to detect so far.”

But there were two major problems: The cities weren’t ready, and the tests didn’t work.
Azar’s bungled announcement before the Senate Finance Committee on Feb. 13 was just one of many preventable missteps and blunders in the federal government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis — the embodiment of an administration that, for weeks, repeatedly squandered opportunities to manage and prepare for a global epidemic that has killed thousands worldwide and at least 19 so far in the United States.

On Friday, visiting the CDC in Atlanta, the president spewed more falsehoods when he claimed, incorrectly: “Anybody that needs a test, gets a test. They’re there. They have the tests. And the tests are beautiful.”

Several experts said the United States should have spent more time making sure hospitals and state and local health departments had the money, training, personal protective equipment and resources they needed to respond to outbreaks. But the White House’s messaging in January and well into late February that the virus was contained and under control probably led health-care facilities to be insufficiently prepared, these experts added.

Health officials were sounding increasingly dire public warnings. At a regularly scheduled media briefing for reporters on Feb. 25, Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, focused her remarks on community mitigation — such as closing schools or avoiding mass gatherings — rather than the detective work of tracking down and trying to contain existing cases.

But Trump, watching from abroad in India, was furious at what he viewed as her alarmist rhetoric, which he feared would further tank the already gyrating markets. Word trickled back that Messonnier’s blunt talk was “just too early.”

Several officials also asserted that key players were missing in the early days of the response — most notably from the FDA, which can work with private manufacturers on diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccine development. FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn participated in some media briefings and FDA officials took part in HHS briefings, but Hahn was not added to the task force until the end of February, after Vice President Pence took over the response.

Some in the administration, including Trump himself, viewed the initial steps to contain the virus as the solution — rather than merely as a starting point from which to use to buy themselves more time.

“We have contained this,” Trump economic adviser Larry Kudlow told CNBC the last week of February. “I won’t say airtight, but it’s close to airtight.”

The $8.3 billion in supplemental funds for emergency coronavirus aid, which Trump signed into law Friday, should have been requested a month earlier, many officials and experts said. Had the request come sooner, government agencies could have gotten an earlier start to research and develop vaccines; they could have ensured that state and local health departments had the money and resources they needed to support lab testing and infection control, transportation and lodging for people needing quarantine; and hospitals could have stockpiled supplies such as masks and gowns.

Once in Atlanta, the president’s misstatements continued. Just one day prior, Pence had offered a disconcerting admission as he traveled to the West Coast: “We don’t have enough tests today to meet what we anticipate will be the demand going forward.”

Yet there was Trump, touring the CDC in a red “Keep America Great” campaign hat and offering an alternative reality just 24 hours later during a chaotic appearance: “Anybody who wants a test will get a test, that’s the bottom line,” said Trump, who went on to describe the coronavirus testing kits as being nearly as “perfect” as his phone call with the Ukrainian president last summer, which ultimately led to his impeachment.

Trump was the first world leader to shut down flights to China. The Demorats and all other nations condemned him. The news media condemned him. Only a few days later those same nations also shut down flights to China. Trump then shut down flights to other countries heavily contaminated. A few days later other nations followed his actions. Trump led, others followed. Trump can do nothing right, because there are those who hate him. It was the CDC that let down the American people, not Trump. Not enough hand sanitizer, not enough masks for healthcare workers, not enough ventilators. This disaster was already in place before trump came into office.

 

[Chickenlittle]

Every country is responsible for dealing with healthcare emergencies that come their way America is doing a pathetic job of protecting us.

No government can stop this virus. They can only slow it down and stretch it out so it will not overwhelm the healthcare system. Trump has told us to social distance. He cannot force us. It is up to the people to wash their hands and social distance.
I was in the Philippines in July 1968 when the Hong Kong flu killed 500,000 people in Hong Kong while sweeping thru Asia. People were stubborn, refused to comply, and suffered the consequences. If America does the same as Hong Kong, , do not worry about it. We can blame it on Trump.

 

[FollowTheWay]

No government can stop this virus. They can only slow it down and stretch it out so it will not overwhelm the healthcare system. Trump has told us to social distance. He cannot force us. It is up to the people to wash their hands and social distance.
I was in the Philippines in July 1968 when the Hong Kong flu killed 500,000 people in Hong Kong while sweeping thru Asia. People were stubborn, refused to comply, and suffered the consequences. If America does the same as Hong Kong, , do not worry about it. We can blame it on Trump.

U.S. federal response to coronavirus a 'fiasco,' says global health expert

U.S. federal response to coronavirus a ‘fiasco,’ says global health expert
Mar 12, 2020 6:50 PM EDT

You know, Judy, the American response has been deeply disappointing.

In almost every way, our response has been far less effective than every other major country in the world. It's baffling, actually. We have, in the CDC, arguably the best public health agency in the world. All of us thought that the CDC was going to — was prepared and was going to help fight this virus. The federal response has been a fiasco.

Most doctors today cannot test people for coronavirus, because we just don't have the tests. Every other major country has figured out how to do it. South Korea is testing 15,000 people a day.

Across the European Union, people are getting tests. Even Iran and Vietnam are testing more regularly than we are. We have just managed to bungle this so incredibly badly that most Americans cannot get the test they need. And, as Dr. Fauci said, it's a failing.

 

[InTheLight]

U.S. federal response to coronavirus a 'fiasco,' says global health expert

U.S. federal response to coronavirus a ‘fiasco,’ says global health expert
Mar 12, 2020 6:50 PM EDT

You know, Judy, the American response has been deeply disappointing.

Article is nine days old. Up to the minute reporting, I see.



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[FollowTheWay]

Article is nine days old. Up to the minute reporting, I see.



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At that point it was already too late to flatten the curve and prevent America from receiving the full impact of this Pandemic.

 

[Yeshua1]

At that point it was already too late to flatten the curve and reduce America from receiving the full impact of this Pandemic.

All goes back to China sitting 2 months on news that virus was out!

 

[InTheLight]

At that point it was already too late to flatten the curve and prevent America from receiving the full impact of this Pandemic.

Thank you Dr. FollowTheWay.

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[FollowTheWay]

All goes back to China sitting 2 months on news that virus was out!

It's correct to say that China delayed getting out the message that this was a virus that could spread from human to human (community spread).
https://www.vox.com/2020/2/4/21122072/china-coronavirus-healthcare

Julia Belluz
There have been numerous reports, based on different bits of evidence, that as with SARS, China deliberately engaged in a cover-up that delayed alerting the world to this outbreak. What do you see as the most compelling evidence of such a delay or cover-up?

Yanzhong Huang
According to a January 29 report in the New England Journal of Medicine, by authors from the Chinese CDC, there were already health care workers infected in early January — something like seven health care workers infected. This is the smoking-gun evidence of human-to-human transmission.

But the public was not kept informed about this situation until January 18. People were still told there was no strong evidence of human-to-human transmission. In the same article in NEJM, there’s other evidence that human-to-human transmission was occurring in December already

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But after the information was available different countries reacted to it in different ways. S Korea was hit hard but embarked immediately on a successful testing program
which might prove effective in "flattening the curve." As of March 20, 2020 S. Korea has performed over 300,000 tests while only about 100,000 have been done in the U.S. We are 6 times as big as S. Korea so per capita we are even more seriously lagging behind the,

 

[AustinC]

The Media and dems are sure acting as if they have "valid data", at least enough to make Trump look bad!

It's an election year. No one should be fooled into believing either political party will speak honest, unbiased truth.

 

[just-want-peace]

Frankly, I still believe, that while this is a serious situation, that the leftist media is just egging the masses into an unnecessary panic mode. I can think of no other reason for the massive hoarding of antibacterial items, toilet paper etc.!

I remember back in the 70s when there were gas lines everywhere. Carter froze prices and shortages were inevitable, leading to the gas lines. I was talking to a station owner once at the time & he told me of one "fill-up" that was emblematic of the mood of panic re: gasoline. He said one woman in a Cadillac had been in line for some 30 minutes waiting to get her allotted ration - 10 gal IIRC - and when he started pumping it took LESS than 1 (ONE) gallon to fill her up.
When panic sets in people show many types of erratic behavior; totally unnecessary - my feelings about today.
This is the silver bullet to crash the economy and dislodge Trump; the left hopes.