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the trump haters here complain that trump hasnt responded to the corona virus in a timely manner, yet we ahve fewer than 300 cases in this country, and fewer than 20 deaths. why? because trump stepped up and restricted travel from countries with known outbreaks of the disease, and has quarantined US citizens brought back from countries with the disease running rampant.
and the CDC hasnt been lagging either, they continually research various viruses, some far worse than corona by the way, so its not like the corona virus is the only thing they have to deal with.
also lets not leave congress blameless in this, they took their sweet time bringing up a spending bill to help combat the disease, though they did get it passed fairly quickly once it hit the floor.
also note that trump declared an emergency at the end of january about a month after the virus was first discovered. compere that with the 2009 h1n1 outbreak where it took obama more than six months to declare an emergency, and by that time tens of thousands had been infected with that virus with over a thousand deaths.
WTF are you talking about?!
The US has NOT banned travelers from Italy or South Korea.
what a load of feces. explain in detail how trump was responsible for a faulty reagent in the first generation CDC covid-19 kit.
did they lie or did they over-promise?
cite evidence they knew they wouldn't have the testing capability they promised.
Seriously.
If I knew, they knew.
I said at the time that they were lying, but was willing to wait until today to see if I was wrong
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I posted it a few comments back but here it is again.
https://www.propublica.org/article/c...-covid-19-test
The federal agency shunned the World Health Organization test guidelines used by other countries and set out to create a more complicated test of its own that could identify a range of similar viruses. But when it was sent to labs across the country in the first week of February, it didn’t work as expected. The CDC test correctly identified COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. But in all but a handful of state labs, it falsely flagged the presence of the other viruses in harmless samples.
One of the things to know with COVID-19: runny nose is rarely a component of the illness,” says Dr. Marta Feldmesser, chief of medicine of infectious diseases at Lenox Hill Hospital. “So if people [around you] start sneezing, that’s not something that should trigger concerns.”
Feldmesser says that only around 5% of the first 1,100 cases in China exhibited any nasal symptoms.
One of the things to know with COVID-19: runny nose is rarely a component of the illness,” says Dr. Marta Feldmesser, chief of medicine of infectious diseases at Lenox Hill Hospital. “So if people [around you] start sneezing, that’s not something that should trigger concerns.”
Feldmesser says that only around 5% of the first 1,100 cases in China exhibited any nasal symptoms.
i take it no evidence from you will be forthcoming. but cite your post where you claimed at the time they were lying.
You can go back and look for it, it's not worth my time. I did, I went into a whole argument that the words they were using meant it wasn't going to happen. Almost a direct quote from me "I worked for the government, I speak government" towards the end of the post.
PLUS, being able to come up with so many tests so quickly isn't really feasible. Impossible? No. Unlikely? Yes.
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