Posted on 03/28/2020 3:09:41 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention underestimated the threat from the emerging outbreak of the coronavirus in the US — and bungled its communication with local public health agencies about what actions to take, according to a report.
ProPublica obtained hundreds of pages of documents that it said painted a picture of chaos at the country’s leading national public health agency that slowed the early response to the deadly illness.
On Feb. 13, the CDC sent out an email with what the writer described as an “URGENT” appeal for assistance as the agency was struggling to keep track of people suspected of being infected, the nonprofit news outlet reported.
“Help needed urgently,” the missive said amid “an ongoing issue” with organizing — and at times even misplacing — material sent by local agencies about Americans believed to be infected.
In a bid to correct the botched efforts, the CDC listed job postings for candidates who could track down the missing paperwork, according to ProPublica, which obtained the trove of documents between federal and state officials through a records request in Nevada.
By the time the jobs posting went out, there were already 15 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the US — two weeks before the first case of community transmission was reported in California.
In a sign of the CDC’s state of confusion, ProPublica cited documents that show the agency informed Nevada about 80 possible coronavirus patients to monitor — though four of them lived in New York, not Nevada.
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And the media said Trump was a racist for even more stringent border protections, for cracking down on China, and has since carried China’s water.
Along with the WHO destroying world economies with it’s “garbage in, garbage out” model for their mortality rate.
And now judges are releasing criminals and known infected people.
Isn’t Pro Publica a Soros funded rag?
We know.
nypost isn’t.
Investigative journalism is a lost art.
Well, you can’t expect the CDC to contain this virus AND promote social justice at the same time...
jeez.
Well that sounds semi quasi official. An opinion piece from ProPublica is the "report"?
“CDC underestimated threat”
Utter BS.
CDC leadership in the pocket of CCP.
Nobody’s in charge. That is a large problem. Trump needs to stop doing all the talking. Let smarter people contribute.
Just keep your eye on the ball: week over week deaths.
Because they were mostly concerned about gunz....
The TDS pandemic runs rampant in that place.
I thought it was not exponential?
I get so confused.
And the Stanford prof is saying it’s way overestimated.
Whirlwind of official opinions.
Plain old incompetence or Deep State undermining of Trump (and our country). Or both?
2020 hindsight.
What else is new?
WaPo also ripped the CDC a little while back.
So more than one report.
The NYC health officials telling everyone to ride the subway and go to the Chinese New Year parade didn’t help. One step away from the idiotic Italian saying to hug a Chinese person.
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