Posted on 03/21/2020 11:15:58 AM PDT by karpov
Addressing the media alongside the coronavirus task force on Thursday, Donald Trump said he would “slash red tape like nobody has even done it before” to get approval for coronavirus treatments.
That would be a welcome development indeed. What’s unfortunate is that there was no similar push at the beginning of the crisis to expedite coronavirus testing. The U.S. response to the pandemic has been hampered at every level due to insufficient testing capacity.
The first coronavirus case in the U.S. and South Korea was detected on January 21. Since then, South Korea has effectively contained the coronavirus without shutting down its economy or quarantining tens of millions of people. Instead, the Korean government has pursued a “trace, test, and treat” strategy that identifies and isolates those infected with the coronavirus while allowing healthy people to go about their normal lives. Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan have also managed to contain the virus via a combination of travel restrictions, social distancing, and heightened hygiene.
Unfortunately, the United States has not made testing widely available and now various regions are being forced to impose severe economic and social lockdowns. As of March 17, the U.S. had tested only about 125 people per million. South Korea had tested more than 5,000 people per million. Between early February and mid-March, the U.S. lost six crucial weeks because regulators stuck to rigid regulations instead of adapting as new information came in. While these rules might have made sense in normal times, they proved disastrous in a pandemic.
Under ordinary circumstances, the cost of using an imperfect diagnostic test often outweighs the benefit. But when public health officials need to contain a novel and highly contagious disease, speed matters more than perfection.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedispatch.com ...
To impose the kind of social surveillance that S Korea maintains would be anti-constitutional and outright racist, xenophobic and in violation of our sanctuary cities and states policies regarding the safe harboring of criminal aliens.
Its time to remove regulations and regulators..
Well, in NYC, lack of containment doesn’t seem to be a good solution either.
Donald Trump said he would “slash red tape like nobody has even done it before”
Lawyers make it so we can’t “trace, test, and treat” immigrants with HIV, with plainly visible Kaposi Sarcoma.
Lawyers make it so we can’t “trace, test, and treat” illegal alien invaders with Active TB as they traipse across the border. We give them plane tickets.
What makes you think we could “trace, test, and treat” ASYMPTOMATIC US CITIZENS?
I don’t know why everyone is looking at S. Korea. Taiwan is a much better example. Don’t trust the CHICOMs in the first place and keep a careful watch on what they are up to.
well, at least we can see what kind of bullshit the left is preparing to attack President Trump with when this thing is finally either contained or allowed to run its course, namely “he didn’t act soon enough” ...
South Korea has their own home grown test development and manufacturing at some high tech company.
Trump should fly Pelousy’s A/F plane over there a couple of times a week to pick up millions of test kits that Calif. apparently can’t find.
OK, the US was delayed. In this situation is may have created a problem. But I do not want the feds just wily-nily ignoring the laws/rules. That would give a path to takeover lives.
The Dispatch is the despicable Never-Trumper online rag recently started by puke-worthy Never Trumpers like Jonah Goldberg.
You could probably detect that however with this story, as it starts in reference to “Donald Trump”, without once giving him recognition of his title and role as president.
It's government, the larger it is allowed to become the more often the you get abysmal results.
The globalist, anarchist, capitalists who fell all over one another racing to move US industry to China have the same, "never let a crisis go to waste" attitude as the socialist scum who want central planning and essentially no private property.
Why should I believe less regulated private industry has the capacity within the US to produce accurate tests other than a few to secure a patent when they can't meet the demand for something as simple as surgical masks?
Likewise, why should I believe that if the revolving door between the regulators and the regulated would just spin faster over regulating health related materials is a wonderful use of government power?
If it's a good idea to reduce the regulations that relate to our current situation, then it's a good idea to only reduce regulations on companies with at least 90% of their production capacity within the continental United States.
JMHo
HIPPA probably an impediment as well.
I think the whole mess started with banning straws and plastic bags. Virus spread by dirty glasses and we all know how nasty those reusable bags can get. I say we blame and ban libtards!
These Dispatch scum look to mislead by providing misleading information.
Consider this: https://www.ft.com/content/2a70a02a-644a-11ea-a6cd-df28cc3c6a68
Though Taiwan warned the WHO in December about this, WHO into mid-January (the 14th IIRC) was still parroting China’s reporting that it wasn’t shared by human to human transmission. Only on January 20th did the WHO say that it appeared that it was.
Trump (largely) stopped flights from China on January 31st, and was slammed by the left and Never Trumpers and globalists when he did so.
Oh, also this Never Trumper scum rag also deflects from the core decision-making organization that basically screwed Trump by disallowing the WHO-linked test while supposedly coming up with and disseminating its own, then recalling that.
If one didn’t know better, the guy who wrote multiple love letters to Hillary was screwing Trump and the country on purpose—to try to get Hillary onto the “throne”.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/03/20/fauci-love-letter-to-hillary-clinton-surfaces/
“Well, in NYC, lack of containment doesn’t seem to be a good solution either.”
Singapore is a city-state not terribly smaller than NYC.
It did not need total shut-down containment. Because it had the test kits!!! THAT is the basic argument of the article.
You are in shutdown because your federal agencies made it impossible to have the kind of response Singapore and South Korea were able to do - test, isolate the positives, track there close contacts, test those contacts, isolate the infirm, elderly and vulnerable, treat at home in self-isolation mild cases, treat only the worst cases in the hospital - and none of it shut down all business and economic activity.
DUmocrats lobbied their favorite judges to lift travel bans and helped to spread virus...that needs to be on the FRONT PAGE of every newspaper, but they have an agenda...
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