True. Its not like Trump has been gutting the CDC and firing those tasked with responding to pandemics. Oh wait he did
@WildRose said that it was impossible to have produced a single additional test kit more than what has already been delivered. How can this be?
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I chalk this up to unreasonable expectations. It’s a problem of scale and the CDC has limited production capabilities.
Understand fear and frustration but we’ve sent much of our industrial production to China over the last thirty years including an alarming amount of our Bio/Medical/Pharmaceutical production.
Review my thread from a few days ago on the national security reasons for bringing industrial jobs back to the US. This is a perfect example of where that critical industrial capacity is lacking.
This is all magnified by the fact the virus wasn’t even identified and typed until January. We had test kits in production within three weeks but with limited capacity there’s only so many that can be produced quickly.
I said no such thing, stop making up BS.
CDC’s budget has increased under this Administration.
You said it was impossible.
Not possible = impossible.
Spare me the BS…you’re not fooling anyone no matter how many times you post it.
What is untrue about the article?
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Obama has just taken office in 2009 when the swine flu broke out. Trump has been in office for three years.
And while it was exceptionally contagious, it had a death rate of 0.02-0.08%.
It was contagious…not virulent.
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But not the parts of CDC responsible for dealing with global disease outbreaks
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Except it is 1.4 or lower now, not 2. Likely to fall to be on par with the flu before all is said and done.
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You just claimed I said it was impossible to produce even a single kit more than has been produced.
You knew it wasn’t true when you posted it.
Read your own damned article. They are squalling about a one time appropriation for combating Ebola that passed in 2014 which was about to expire.
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Increased to 3.4% globally now.
not according to WHO.
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Might help if you understood what he said, which wasn’t that summer heat would kill the virus but that transmission rates would fall as people spend less time couped up indoors.
There is no possibility left that we can have an honest discussion on this forum.
We aren’t global, I was talking about the US. 1.4 was in China, it will be even lower here. First reports out of China had it at two, later reports at 1.4.
from Coronavirus vs the Flu: Are They Different? - The New York Times
The true death rate could turn out to be similar to that of a severe seasonal flu, below 1 percent, according to an editorial published in the journal by Dr. Anthony S. Fauci and Dr. H. Clifford Lane, of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Dr. Robert R. Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But by all means, return to your politically based fear mongering.
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