President Donald J. Trump Has Mobilized the Full Resources of the Federal Government to Respond to the Coronavirus

whitehouse.gov ^ | March 13, 2020 | President Donald J Trump

[ransomnote]

"I will never hesitate to take any necessary steps to protect the lives, health, and safety of the American people. I will always put the wellbeing of America first."

President Donald J. Trump

MOBILIZING ALL FEDERAL RESOURCES: President Donald J. Trump is leveraging the full power of the Federal Government to protect the health and safety of the American people. 

• President Trump is exercising statutory authorities to declare a national emergency in response to the coronavirus.
• The unprecedented action the President is taking invites States, territories, and tribes to access over $42 billion in existing funding to combat the coronavirus.
  • The Administration has taken decisive action to ensure State, local, and tribal leaders have the resources they need to provide protective measures for their communities.
  • The Small Business Administration also has authority and available funding to make over $7 billion in loans to qualifying small businesses to assist economic recovery.
• President Trump is directing further actions across his Administration in response to the coronavirus.
  • The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced guidance to limit medically unnecessary visits to nursing homes to protect vulnerable elderly Americans
  • The Secretary of the Education will be waiving interest on all student loans held by the Federal Government.
  • The President is directing the Department of Energy to purchase large quantities of crude oil for the strategic reserve.
• The President is urging every State to set up emergency operational centers and is asking every hospital to activate its emergency preparedness plan.

EMPOWERING HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS: The President’s emergency declaration will give healthcare providers on the front lines of this pandemic the flexibility they need to respond.

• President Trump continues to cut through every piece of unnecessary red tape that may hinder our response efforts and make every Federal resource available.
• The President will empower the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to waive provisions of certain laws and regulations and give maximum flexibility to healthcare providers to care for their patients.
• The declaration will provide HHS with critical authorities to waive:
  • Certain laws to enable telehealth, remote doctors’ visits, and hospital check-ins
  • Licensing requirements so doctors from other states can provide services in areas with the greatest need.
  • Critical Access Hospital requirements to allow those hospitals to have more beds and longer lengths of stay
  • The requirement of a 3-day hospital stay prior to admission to a nursing home.
  • Rules hindering hospitals’ ability to bring additional physicians on board or obtain needed office space.
  • Restrictions on where hospitals can care for patients.
• The Administration will be working to eliminate every obstacle possible to ensure healthcare providers can deliver Americans the care they need.

RAPIDLY EXPANDING TESTING: The Trump Administration is working to rapidly expand coronavirus testing across the nation and make sure Americans who need them have access.

• President Trump is mobilizing resources across the Federal Government to accelerate testing and expand access for more Americans.
  • The President wants to make sure that those who need a test can get a test safely, quickly, and conveniently.
• The Administration is working with the private sector to open up drive-through testing collection sites in critical areas impacted by the coronavirus.
• The Administration is working with Google to develop a website Americans can go to determine whether a test is needed and, if so, facilitate testing at a nearby location.
• The Food and Drug Administration is issuing emergency authorization for new commercial coronavirus tests that will help significantly expand testing across the country.
  • One new test produced by Roche has already been authorized and authorization is coming for another test very shortly.
  • Up to 2 million additional tests are expected to be available next week thanks to these efforts.
• President Trump and his Administration are working to provide maximum flexibility for States to approve labs for coronavirus testing.
• HHS recently announced it is providing funding to help accelerate the development of two rapid diagnostic tests.
• The Administration has designated Assistant Secretary for Health Brett Giroir to take the lead in coordinating testing efforts to ensure seamless access for patients, doctors, and hospitals.
• The Administration continues to cut red tape that restricted who qualifies for testing.

 

[familyop]

Considering the competing factions and opinions he’s being barraged with, the President is doing the most excellent job. He should take a short break, rest and take care of himself for another round with the noisy peanut gallery of national and world politics.

[shanover]

This will all pass. Look at the a-holes who are using this crisis as their gain.

[null and void]

We do this for every just a flu, bro...

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.

The false positive rate was 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 or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.

[Guenevere]

Bttt

[ransomnote]

President DJT declares a Nation emergency, where are the “this is just the flu” people now?
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Reasoned based response is being out-shouted by DOOM! DOOM! and once DOOM! becomes “real” in the minds of the listeners, Trump has to meet some of their expectations to keep them from from driving even further panic.

[GOP Poet]

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[Amendment10]

Precautions against Coronavirus are undoubtedly helping to stop the spread of the flu too.

Correction welcome.

[a fool in paradise]

Maybe we should

[a fool in paradise]

Meanwhile many more are killed by opioids and abortion every single day

[fireman15]

where are the “this is just the flu” people now?

The first known case in this country was on January 15 at SeaTac Airport. Unfortunately, other people who had been in China slipped through and people at a local nursing home got sick and some died. In the next two months since, we have had around 30 deaths and a couple hundred confirmed cases in the entire country. In the same time period the flu has both infected and killed hundreds of times as many people.

President Trump's hand has been forced by this political and media farce. All this nonsense will probably lower the impact of the current flu season, but it will have a devastating effect on the economy. So don't be an idiot and work yourself into a tizzy. This nonsense will not end until November 4th, because that is what it is really all about.

[trebb]

How sad you can’t see that he had no choice but to exercise more government control because of all the panic-mongers out there...

[trebb]

So, which Dem campaign are you working on Noob?
Don’t forget to click on a “Donate” link while you help spread the Left’s propaganda.

[trebb]

Kind of ironic - we know that the Deep State and others use fear as a way to steer and control the people - we had the commie/nuke war threat until the Berlin Wall came down then it wasn’t viable anymore and up pops Globull Warming, which has many in fear that we’re gonna destroy the Earth even as we do less harm than past generations and none of the data actually supports anything but the earth’s climate and Mother Nature do not now, and never did have a “balance” and even if they did, we have no idea of how to maintain one or ‘fix’ things...all our efforts end up causing more harm....the coronavirus scare is no different - the panic-induced knee-jerking will cause more harm than the virus.
Folks who would be up in arms if the government decided to tell them they could not move freely are now begging that same government to lock them, and everyone else, down....I’d wager if, after doing that, the story ‘evolved” they would also go meekly to barb-wire surrounded camps/tent cities because the “latest info” said that’s the only way to stop it.
Even though we know that they use fear to guide and control us, so many can’t see it through the red haze of insane panic....they not only welcome the government controls, they beg for them...

[trebb]

Maybe you should take off your tin foil hat and mask and blinders long enough to get perspective...most Flu seasons infect and kill many more time the amount of coronavirus cases we have and it has been around for over half a normal Flu season...yet very little angst happens over those Flu seasons as they roll around year after year after year...you seem to be one of those particularly sensitive to the fear techniques.