Posted on 04/03/2020 6:37:29 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration's decision to let states chart their own responses to the coronavirus crisis rather than impose a national strategy will cost thousands of lives and is likely to result in an open-ended outbreak rolling across the country, a dozen public health experts told NBC News.
The only way to win what President Donald Trump has called a war against an "invisible enemy" is to establish a unified federal command, the experts insist - something Trump has yet to do. So far, the federal government hasn't leveraged all its authority and influence to dramatically expand testing and tracing measures, ensure a sufficient supply of crucial medical equipment or require residents of all 50 states to stay at home.
Each day that passes without such a national strategy, the experts say, will raise the ultimate U.S. death toll from COVID-19, the disease associated with the virus. Right now, there aren't enough tests and gear as states compete with one another to buy them on the open market. And there is very little ability to trace who has the virus and where it is spreading.
"This is a problem that we should be dealing with over the entire nation," said William Haseltine, a biologist famed for his work on HIV and AIDS. "This is a national problem - it needs a national response."
"The president says we are at war with the coronavirus," wrote Dr. Harvey Fineberg, president of the Institute of Medicine at Harvard University's School of Public Health. "It's a war we should fight to win."
As of now, that isn't happening, said Laurie Garrett, a public health expert and author of "The Coming Plague" and other books that warned of the growing danger posed by pandemics.
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Basically what Kushner said at yesterdays presser...
When a crisis hits people find out what kind of leaders are their governors and mayors. Some are failing badly.
National martial law is not the solution to the poor choices of voters
The MSM/DNC want a declared national shutdown so bad it’s killing them. The economy is in ruins but it’s not enough for these bastards. The holdout states have no reason to put their citizens under house arrest the way most of the country has.
First time I heard him do a presentation. He makes people like Schiff et al look like 2 year olds.
Are these the same experts that told Nanzi Jezebel Pelosi it was safe to walk the streets of Chinatown as the virus was in its early stages or is this a different set of experts?
Haseltine in particular is affiliated with a group that recomends globalist solutions to Medicine. (IIRC they get funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation).
' An "expert" from ACCESS Health International is trashing Vice President Pence's suggestion that people could start going back to work with masks in a couple of weeks...
ACCESS Health International is a globalist organization headquarted in New York.
They are partners with the *cough* (C W I D T?) BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION.
...one of their recent presentations was...*cough* Digital Health
Building a Sustainable Healthcare System: Presentation at the 9th U.S.-China Health Summit (Wuhan)
Event Summary by William A. Haseltine — November 25, 2019
...Haseltine is (as far as I can make out) the chair and founder.
Source:
https://accessh.org/events/ and links from there.
Because we all know what a great job the federal government does with food stamps, the U S Postal Service, welfare, education etc.
Is this a left handed way of saying blue state pols are too incompetent to handle a crisis?
agree-they are already heavily stumping for Biden-and if the economy doesn’t open up and start to rebound in the 3rd quarter it will be President Biden-and you watch -he and Dems will get credit for re-bounding economy=lots of FR re-posting every negative on the “live “ thread don’t get they are hurting the country
The US has more fake news media that any country in the world
WTH planet did these morons come from?
What’s wrong with NBC? Shouldn’t it be thousands of experts?
I only hope it is the lives of a few hundred dozen "experts".
Thousands of World Experts.
Check my post 36. Haseltine was scaremongering heterosexual AIDS in the mid 1980s.
Indeed so has speculation ya know how the media are experts in that arena.
“... Laurie Garrett, a public health expert...”
No, she’s not. She does have a background in biology and infectious diseases, but she never completed her Ph.D, which was NOT in public health, and became a reporter and author.
And all those numbers would be higher if all the homies were not killing each other off before they got old enough to die from them LOL
Nobody with any sense would paralyze this nation by establishing the same routines for every part of it. There are VSST differences between New York and Montana.
I remember that about AIDS.
What a jerk.
aka stooges on stools..
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