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Trump is responsible for not only his current delays but for his inept restructuring of the CDC that left the CDC itself unprepared for this--and it happened three years ago--for what reason? Money.
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This week, three things happened with painfully ironic synchronicity. First, the Democratic Republic of the Congo revealed that it is facing down its ninth Ebola outbreak. Second, President Trump asked Congress to rescind a $252 million pot that had been put aside to deal with Ebola. And third, global health expert Tim Ziemer unexpectedly departed the National Security Council, where he served as senior director for global health security and biodefense.
A retired rear-admiral who coordinated the President’s Malaria Initiative, which reduced global malaria deaths by 40 percent, Ziemer is highly respected by his peers and has been described as “one of the most quietly effective leaders in public health.” Health-security experts called his departure from the NSC a serious mistake—one that jeopardizes America’s already fragile state of preparedness against infectious threats.
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Ziemer’s departure, and the restructuring of his team, was described as a move to “streamline” the NSC and “combine a handful of offices with similar mission sets” in the name of reduced bureaucracy, according to a statement from the NSC spokesman Robert Palladino.
But the worry is that Hall and her team may now be stretched too thinly. “Now they have to take on not only epidemic and biological threats, but they have to worry about North Korea and Iran and everything else,” says Inglesby. “The more that you make [epidemic preparedness] a part of other activities, the less time anyone has to focus on any of it.”
Ron Klain, the former Ebola czar, agrees. “Andrea Hall has a good reputation, but I think this is a mistake that puts us all more at risk,” he says. “Combining epidemic prevention and control with WMD issues means that the epidemic work will always take a back seat. It means that no senior level person will be specifically focused on the work that needs to be done to protect us from this serious threat. And it means that the team will tilt their focus more toward intentional attacks using infectious diseases, and less on the more frequent (and just as serious) risk of naturally spread diseases.”
His ineptitude has now killed over 900 people and destroyed the economy he bragged about building. He's a mass murderer, whether it was intentional or not. The only people more ignorant that Trump are those who are being duped into reelecting him.
Trump is responsible for not only his current delays but for his inept restructuring of the CDC that left the CDC itself unprepared for this--and it happened three years ago--for what reason? Money.
His ineptitude has now killed over 900 people and destroyed the economy he bragged about building. He's a mass murderer, whether it was intentional or not.
Trump lied, people died.
Seek help. Trump's leadership has saved a lot of American lives, including a lot of unhinged liberals like you.
Trump is responsible for not only his current delays but for his inept restructuring of the CDC that left the CDC itself unprepared for this--and it happened three years ago--for what reason? Money.
His ineptitude has now killed over 900 people and destroyed the economy he bragged about building. He's a mass murderer, whether it was intentional or not. The only people more ignorant that Trump are those who are being duped into reelecting him.
Trump lied, people died.
Great post Lt Zheng..eerr Capt. Wei of the PRC...or Hillary is that you?
Your standard bearer has been advocating for your granny to be sacrificed for Wall Street.
If you're actually in NYC you should be complaining about the failed leadership of deBlasio and Cuomo. NYC is the Wuhan of the US. Liberal Democrats fail at everything including keeping their constituents alive.
If you're actually in NYC you should be complaining about the failed leadership of deBlasio and Cuomo. NYC is the Wuhan of the US. Liberal Democrats fail at everything including keeping their constituents alive.
NYC is extremely densely populated compared to the rest of US
Apparently, 1st grade math is not your thing either.
We are going to pass China in terms of total cases of COVID-19 in the next few weeks. That should tell us all we need to know about our "preparedness" as well as the management of this pandemic.
But maybe not deaths. If the U. S. ends up with a lower death rate, that will be used to make the case the U. S. was better prepared for a pandemic. Surely, Trump will point that out.
If we were so well prepared our healthcare system wouldn't be short and competing against one another for desperately needed PPE. As a result our primary defense- healthcare workers, are at risk.
If we were so well prepared there wouldn't be a national shortage and scrambling desperately for ventilators. Our national emergency stockpile is wholly inadequate to meet the demands. Doctors are forced to decide in a battle zone type triage environment 'who lives and dies'.. And some of you mumbled about 'Death Panels' oh not that long ago. What say you now?
If we were so well prepared- we would've had clinical response teams at cluster zones asap advising state and local officials to mandate stricter controls on shelter in place. Instead we had parties on beaches, heads in the sand in cities....
I don't see how this report reconciles with the reality of what's going on in real time. Sorry.
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