U.S. Lacks Resources to Combat Rapidly Spreading Coronavirus
Feb. 12, 2020, 12:51 PM
The U.S. health-care system lacks the capacity to handle the coronavirus if the rapidly spreading outbreak can’t be contained, former CDC and FDA officials told a Senate panel.
“Slowing down the spread is important because if we have a lot of cases all at once, we simply don’t have the surge capacity to manage that in our health-care environment,” Julie Gerberding, executive vice president and chief patient officer at Merck & Co. said Wednesday at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee roundtable. Gerberding was the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the SARS... rest is behind paywall.
If anyone comes across a link to this morning’s Senate roundtable, please post it.
The Department of Defense approved 11 'installation sites' near major airports around the US
They will be used if and when hospitals are unable to accommodate passengers in their own quarantine sites
The airports are located in Hawaii, Illinois, Texas , California , Georgia, New York, Washington state, Washington DC, New Jersey and Michigan
Americans returning from the coronavirus outbreak epicenter in Wuhan, China, are required to spend 14 days under quarantine
Those returning from China who did not visit Wuhan are subject to 14 days of self-isolation in their homes
Foreign nationals who have traveled to China in the last 14 days are not allowed into the US
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How could y’all have possibly missed this cure?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-cow-dung-cure-for-coronavirus-11581378967
No country is ready for an epidemic of any form.
If Merck and their buddy, Perry, hadn’t been pushing HPV in schools, they could have put some time into basic medical supplies.