Posted on 03/31/2020 7:40:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Dr. Deborah Birx on Tuesday said that medical experts failed to understand the seriousness of the coronavirus because of incomplete data coming out of China.
I think the medical community interpreted the Chinese data as that this was serious but smaller than anyone expected, she said. Because I think probably we were missing a significant amount of the data.
Birx spoke about the experts relationship with the data during a White House press briefing on Tuesday evening.
She acknowledged frankly that when she saw early data from China reporting only 50,000 cases of the virus among the 20 million people in Wuhan, China, and the 80 million in Hubei province, she felt that the threat was similar to that of SARS, which had 8,098 cases globally and 774 deaths.
The devastation hitting countries like Italy and Spain and South Korea gave the experts much more complete data, helping them draw models that were far more alarming.
Lets see if we can do much better than that, President Donald Trump said during the briefing, pointing to the models predicting 100,000 to 240,000 deaths in the United States.
Trump noted that the virus was also more contagious than expected.
I think the one thing that nobody really knew about this virus was how contagious it was, he said. Its so incredibly contagious, and nobody knew that.
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They’ve gone from more than 1000 hits for each to a few hundred each.
Exactly! We were following the videos and citizen reporters every day in January! Anyone could see the lines, the people dropping in the street. We KNOW Red China will do anything to stop these stories and knew these brave reporters would be thrown in gulags and be killed.
We saw people thrown into sealed boxes, screaming and pounding to get out. Anyone could see the catastrophic results of the outbreak if they spent a minute on the internet.
Dr Brix is either incompetent or a liar.
ChiComs control our media.
We can also revoke all of the US Treasury debt held by the government or any bank of individual in China. That might pay for about a third of what those pluckers owe us in financial terms for this disease that they unleashed on us. The lives lost and the misery caused are a wholly different matter.
Mark the US debt to the ChiCom thugs ruling the captive people of China as [Paid in Full] as compensation for, at the minimum, negligence.
If it is determined that the virus was weaponized intentionally, triple it as a punitive slap down.
The priorities drifted from their original mission. Thanks Obama! Thanks Clinton! And to some extent, thanks W!
Don’t forget to thank Congress.
Its The Iron Law of Bureaucracy combined with Leftist SJW identity group politics.
The IC knew very early that the Chinese number of deaths was much higher than published.
Not sure why that took so long to translate into national policy.
We need a national policy written into legislation to remove dependence on foriegn supply chains and labor for all “essential” industries, to be in place within 5 years. We now have good lessons on what those are.
It isn’t just China, do you know what the lockdown in India is doing to IT and support for MOST essential US companies? We are in a severely precarious situation.
And we will never know how many died in China, because we can’t trust anything the Chinese Communists say. One of this morning’s headlines was U.S. Deaths now highest worldwide*.
A lie, of course, but how big a lie?
*From memory, may have been worded a bit differently.
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