Posted on 03/09/2020 7:38:36 AM PDT by Zenyatta
Despite multiple attempts by CNN host Jake Tapper to seemingly embarrass the Trump administration with their response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) during Sunday’s State of the Union, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams schooled him on the facts. Tapper even questioned if President Trump was even listening to the advice of medical professionals, only to be told the multiple doctors in the room were not being suppressed.
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So a know nothing journalist is going to school a doctor on a virus. We already know journalist know nothing about anything.
prior to this weekend, the CDC recommendations were mistakenly being interpreted as dictates. The CDC head did not intend it to be that way, and the “change” was education.
The CDC put out a statement that NO requested test had been denied; which contradicted the claims that the CDC “refused” to do a test. Turned out the state refused to send it to the CDC.
The CDC always had a working test, but they had somewhat limited resources, and it took them too long to figure out that the other labs in the country didn’t have the right equipment for part of the test, and that one of the 3 components wasn’t working.
So a big government agency, the CDC, screwed up.
Not much of a surprise. Yet, there's very little criticism of the CDC.
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