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Trump's former pandemic adviser: 'We are 10 days from our hospitals getting creamed'
Theweek.com ^ | March 10, 2020 | Tim O'Donnell -WaPOS

Posted on 03/11/2020 7:12:41 AM PDT by Red Badger

Confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus are swiftly ballooning across the United States, and President Trump's former Homeland Security Adviser Thomas Bossert says time is running out to control the spread.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D), who is overseeing one of the country's largest clusters, said "if you do the math" there could be 64,000 cases of COVID-19 in the Evergreen State by May, while New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the positive cases in the city are "coming in so intensely now" that public officials are struggling to keep up with them. He said he wasn't in a position to give the media a "detailed case breakdown" because of the rapidly changing number.

That seems to lend credence to Bossert's claim Tuesday that hospitals could soon be overwhelmed.

Bossert, who in his old position coordinated the U.S. response to global pandemics (he was not replaced by Trump, who made cuts to national security), wrote an op-ed published Monday by The Washington Post saying the U.S. should take notes from places like Hong Kong and Singapore, which were able to level off their infection rate thanks to tougher measures early on.


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KEYWORDS: covid19; hospitals; pleasepanic; washington; wuhan
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To: Do_Tar

You know bureaucrats won’t be happy unless they have at least one administrator for every single case.


21 posted on 03/11/2020 7:25:16 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Red Badger

I don’t think this is about Trump. And I don’t think it will bring Trump down. Who thinks Senile Joe could do a better job?

But I think this guy is sort of right. I’ve seen projections of the healthcare system being overwhelmed by early May and by mid-April.

This is the earliest projection I’ve seen. Seattle was already talking about having to triage CV patients. Italy is having to triage patients, because they have more severe/critical cases than ICU beds.

So what happens is Doctors start having to make triage decisions like, do you give the ventilator to the 85 year old who has a low chance of recovery regardless. Or the 57 year old?


22 posted on 03/11/2020 7:25:21 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DEPcom

“He resigned after a day after John Bolton was appointed National Security Advisor.”

Well, he probably didn’t have a whole lot to do since the global health security team he was in charge of was disbanded about the same time.


23 posted on 03/11/2020 7:25:41 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: Red Badger

Yeah right. We’ll see in ten days won’t we


24 posted on 03/11/2020 7:26:35 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Red Badger

25 posted on 03/11/2020 7:27:37 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Red Badger

Clueless libs love the number 10.

Ten years until climate catastrophe.
Ten days from virus catastrophe.
Oh well, it does involve the limit of their counting ability.


26 posted on 03/11/2020 7:27:52 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Red Badger

Good lord people. This thing actually is serious.

Viruses don’t care if the president is a Republican or a Democrat, or if the tissue they infect is a Capitalist or Socialist.

It’s a real thing. It is very contagious, and while most people get well, not all people get well, and those who don’t get well are going to need hospital beds and if the virus spreads TOO rapidly there won’t be enough hospital beds.

Slowing the SPREAD of the outbreak IS KEY to saving lives. This is a FACT. It is not partisan. It is not fake news. It is not scare tactics.

This is happening all over the world, not just here. Get the head out.


27 posted on 03/11/2020 7:28:20 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: BwanaNdege
This ain’t a “Pandemic”.... It is a “Dem-Panic”!

EXCELLENT!!!!!........................

28 posted on 03/11/2020 7:29:01 AM PDT by Red Badger (If people were to God like dogs are to people, the world would be a really great place..............)
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To: Red Badger

80,000 US citizens died of the flu in the winter of 2017-2018 and nobody said a word because they were too busy with the RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA hoax.

This is a completely manufactured “crisis” meant to bring down Trump.


29 posted on 03/11/2020 7:29:41 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If you don't recognize that as sarcasm you are dumber than a bag of hammers.)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

The obscure fourth tier expert that Trump appointed.


30 posted on 03/11/2020 7:30:01 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: Red Badger

And sadly we have FReepers completely on board with these Deep Staters and the Fake News in pushing Coronavirus as some type of pandemic! Amazing how hysteria can cloud your judgement and good sense!

Current COVID-19 death toll worldwide: 4,382.

Current US COVID-19 death toll: 31.

Most people are indeed recovering!


31 posted on 03/11/2020 7:30:02 AM PDT by Artcore (Trump 2020!)
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To: babble-on

“Never let a good crisis go to waste.”...Rahm Emmanuel (D) IL, Clintonista...................


32 posted on 03/11/2020 7:30:12 AM PDT by Red Badger (If people were to God like dogs are to people, the world would be a really great place..............)
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To: Red Badger

The only reason a hospital would get creamed is if the media panics everyone with a sniffle to rush to the hospital instead of calling their doctor - this is a crime.


33 posted on 03/11/2020 7:30:26 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: babble-on

The average age of the people dying is 80.

But keep pretending it’s not.


34 posted on 03/11/2020 7:30:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If you don't recognize that as sarcasm you are dumber than a bag of hammers.)
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To: Red Badger

I have a close friend who is a doctor and an ultra-Conservative. He says everything needs to be shut down for two weeks. Everything. He’s never said anything like that before.


35 posted on 03/11/2020 7:32:40 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: babble-on
I reiterate - The key word here is 'former'.
36 posted on 03/11/2020 7:33:26 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Takedown My Duly Elected President and You're Attacking The Constitution! IT WILL BE DEFENDED!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

?


37 posted on 03/11/2020 7:36:23 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: Red Badger
We are all going to die or the media is going to die trying. 😆
38 posted on 03/11/2020 7:36:50 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Red Badger
I know that we live in a "global" world but is it odd that this is popping up all over in disparate places?

Logically explainable, of course, but is it really?

Does it have the hallmarks of a deliberate biological warfare attack?

Not saying that it is but it sounds like something the moon god worshippers or the norks would do.

39 posted on 03/11/2020 7:38:35 AM PDT by Eagles6
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To: Artcore

Over the past 6 months there are roughly 4000 Coronavirus deaths globally vs roughly 300,000 flu deaths.... This is insanity.


40 posted on 03/11/2020 7:39:04 AM PDT by tatown
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