[DannyTN]

This is infuriating.

Probably would have been hard to anticipate this. But this culture at the CDC needs to permanently change.

[ClearCase_guy]

Conclusion: cut more federal regulations. All across the board. They hurt more than they help.

[BenLurkin]

Gotta keep the quacks from bilking people and/or making things worse.

Not saying Chu is a quack.

[be-baw]

Best not to ask permission and be prepared to apologize afterwards, if necessary.

[dfwgator]

The CDC is as useless as tits on a boar hog.

[elpadre]

this attitude is prevalent in every bureaucracy. That is exactly why limited central authority is a plank in the conservative platform. Decisions such as these must be in the hands of the state authorities.

[entropy12]

Other than this covid-19 is more contagious than everyday Flu, the Flu has already killed 100 times or more during the same time. Why there is no lockdown of people with Flu?

[a fool in paradise]

I blame aids activists

[griffin]

WOW.

Obama holdovers wanting to make Trump look bad using our blood.

[Wuli]

I think the CDC and FDA type bureaucracies in both South Korea and Taiwan is not operating as they are in the U.S. Right away large scale testing was and is being done. Which begs the question - why couldn’t the U.S. just bought already known good test kits from Taiwan and South Korea; why did they have to re-invent the wheel here so to speak??? Is it all just the arrogance-of-control by the bureaucrats???

[pepsi_junkie]

This is smart policy by the CDC. If you test living people you will use up most of the kits on people who don't have corona virus. Better to save them up and use them to test corpses so you are more likely to get a better ratio of positive tests to total tests performed.

-Notes from some bureaucrats journal

[Pollard]

Chu

Bless you

[RinaseaofDs]

Trust NOTHING coming from the State of Washington. Seriously. Nothing. Dr. Chu is politicizing this, of course, which is what the People’s Soviet of Washington does with everything.

Dr. Chu. Indeed.

[Texas Eagle]

Could be excuse making or fake news to make President Trump look bad but this is a golden opportunity to point out the dangers of an over-arching all-powerful federal government.

If one person has the power to affect the well-being of the entire country in a negative way, that should be reason enough to abolish that agency.

[null and void]

This ain’t a “Pandemic”.... It is a “Dem-Panic”! H/T BwanaNdege

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[MNJohnnie]

I see the same old shameless liars are here ignoring all fact to cling to their lying by anecdote

Real facts for those interested in Science and data not politically motivated panic mongering and lying.

121,340 total cased WORLD WIDE. 50,00 active cases 70,000 resolved case

4380 deaths. Average age of death: 80 years old

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

[moehoward]

Article is short on details. While Chu is more than capable the CDC might have wanted a halt to make sure there’s some uniformity in testing protocol.

[sauropod]

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[bkopto]

Later that day, the CDC and FDA told Chu and her colleagues to stop testing, then partially relented, and the lab found several more cases. On Monday night, they were ordered to stop testing again.

"I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help."

[mo]

“......and the virus had likely been spreading undetected throughout the Seattle area for weeks”

2-3weeks, doc? Or 6-8?

What.is.the.denominator.?

Thats the entire issue. How large or how small is ALL anyone needs to know. Including the CDC.

Number of deaths is a useless number absent the denominator

[Mr. K]

Why on earth would the CDC tell them to STOP testing?

Fire whoever made that call.