This Incompetent Administration's Response to Coronavirus

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Where is the CDC? How Donny sidelined the public health agency in a pandemic

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...id-19-pandemic

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The Lancet: Reviving the US CDC

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/l...140-5/fulltext

The Administration is obsessed with magic bullets—vaccines, new medicines, or a hope that the virus will simply disappear. But only a steadfast reliance on basic public health principles, like test, trace, and isolate, will see the emergency brought to an end, and this requires an effective national public health agency. The CDC needs a director who can provide leadership without the threat of being silenced and who has the technical capacity to lead today's complicated effort.

The Trump administration's further erosion of the CDC will harm global cooperation in science and public health, as it is trying to do by defunding WHO. A strong CDC is needed to respond to public health threats, both domestic and international, and to help prevent the next inevitable pandemic. Americans must put a president in the White House come January, 2021, who will understand that public health should not be guided by partisan politics.

Any rational human being 2020.

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If these Covidiots that think they're immune to the virus get their way I believe we will reach worst case scenarios of infections and deaths.
IE: Covidiots

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This is what a real patriot sounds like.

"My fellow Americans, there are moments in our history that are so grim, so heart-rending that they’re forever fixed in each of our hearts as shared grief. Today is one of those moments. 100,000 lives have now been lost to this virus here in the United States alone. Each one leaving behind a family that will never again be whole.

I think I know what you’re feeling. You feel like you’re being sucked in a black hole in the middle of your chest. It’s suffocating. Your heart is broken, there is nothing but a feeling of emptiness right now.

For most of you, you were unable to be there when you lost your beloved family member or best friend. For most of you, you were unable to be there when they died alone.

With the pain, the anger and the frustration you’ll wonder whether or not you’ll be able to get anywhere from here. It’s made all the worse by knowing that this is a fateful milestone that should’ve never reached—that could have been avoided.

According to a study done by Columbia University, if the administration had acted just one week earlier to implement social-distancing and do what it had to do just one week sooner, as many as 36,000 of these deaths might have been averted.

To all of you who are hurting so badly, I’m so sorry for your loss. I know there is nothing I or anyone else can say or do to dull the sharpness of the pain you feel right now, but I can promise you from experience, the day will come when the memory of your loved one will bring a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eyes.

My prayer for all of you is that that day will come sooner rather than later. But I promise you it will come and when it does you know you can make it.
God bless each and every one of you and the blessed memory of the one you lost. This nation grieves with you. Take some solace from the fact we all grieve with you.

This is the kind of serious, somber leadership the country has been sorely missing." J. Biden

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You want to know how stupid tRump is? Now tRump is turning the wearing of masks into a culture war. One of the very things that helps slow the spread and help his most sought after reopening he is fighting against.

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New Zealand discharges its last coronavirus patient from the hospital

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-zea...-the-hospital/

While the deranged idiot in the Oval Office tweets more nonsense, and deaths here surpass 104K. He MUST go.

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How Vietnam managed to keep its coronavirus death toll at zero

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/29/asia/...hnk/index.html

...by doing everything that this incompetent administration has resisted from the start...

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"The most eagerly anticipated study on the effect of antimalarial drugs — the drugs assiduously promoted by President Trump — on COVID-19 finds that they’re worthless against the disease caused by the coronavirus.

The results from a trial of 821 non-hospitalized subjects who had been exposed to the virus by someone living in their household or as a healthcare worker or first responder were released Wednesday by researchers at the University of Minnesota who led the trial.

The results are due to be published later Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

While we are disappointed that this did not prevent COVID-19, we are pleased that we were able to provide a conclusive answer.

The key finding is that hydroxychloroquine, the most common preparation of drugs typically used to prevent malaria and to help those with autoimmune conditions such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, “was not able to prevent the development of COVID-19 any better than a placebo.”" LA Times

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-06-03/

Meanwhile Deadbeat Donnie shipped a couple million of these pills to his buddy Bolsonaro. smh

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Top House, Senate lawmakers warn HHS over slow health provider aid payouts
The lawmakers ask why safety net providers that primarily care for the poorest and most vulnerable Americans have yet to receive targeted federal aid.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...payouts-298650

In a letter on Wednesday to HHS Secretary Alex Azar, the bipartisan group demanded a timeline for distributing the roughly $100 billion in funds that Congress earmarked for providers months ago. The lawmakers are also seeking an explanation for why safety net providers that primarily care for the poorest and most vulnerable Americans have yet to receive targeted federal aid.