Posted on 03/26/2020 2:22:14 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The documents — mostly emails — provide a behind-the-scenes peek into the messy early stages of the U.S. response to the coronavirus, revealing an antiquated public health system trying to adapt on the fly. What comes through clearly is confusion, as the CDC underestimated the threat from the virus and stumbled in communicating to local public health officials what should be done.
For much of February, the CDC kept a tight grip on who should be tested for the coronavirus, a strategy that has been criticized by epidemiologists for limiting the ability to track the spread of the disease.
In a Feb. 19 presentation to state health officials, CDC described the definition of a person who ought to be tested: You had to have had close contact with someone confirmed to have COVID-19, or to have traveled from China and then had respiratory symptoms and a fever at the same time.
the CDC’s own guidance from a month prior, distributed to the states on Jan. 17, had a footnote that said that “fever may not be present in some patients,” such as people who had taken fever-lowering medications, according to one of the documents obtained by ProPublica. That caveat was not on the slides presented to the states in mid-February.
By that point, it was clear that the coronavirus was gaining ground within the country, even if the inability to test for it was obscuring the true numbers. Physicians and public health experts begged for more tests while warning that thousands of cases would soon emerge.
Still, Redfield’s March 3 email struck a reassuring note.
“Confronting global outbreaks and protecting Americans is what we do,” Redfield wrote in the message. “More and more, people are turning to us for guidance, and we respond consistently with evidence-based information and professionalism.”
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You have to keep on thing in mind.
If it takes certain things to make testing kits, you keep those
on hand. You don’t stand up and push the blame off on others
when you didn’t do your job.
It’s the CDC’s job to keep this nation prepared.
It’s the CDC’s job to keep this nation prepared.
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That would be a confusing view to the mid and upper level management, which has been in the system and passing all the political/ideological loyalty tests since the Clinton Regime.
They’re responsibility was, as they were raised up in the industry to believe, the exact opposite of what you claim.
It ain’t just the FBI, CIA and State Department that’s coup loaded DS.
It is *every* branch and office of the fedzilla.
BTW. Politico is reporting the Obama administration left a 69 page pandemic playbook Trump ignored:
I agree to that.
I’m not convinced the way this whole thing is being presented
to the American public wasn’t a political machination, from
the get go.
In the end, we will see flu like results here. I know that
will blow some minds here, but we NEVER treat the flu like
this.
Trump was forced into responding as he has, because if he
hadn’t, the media and the Left would have torn him to
shreds.
We have to think long and hard before falling for this type
of hype and subterfuge again.
“My professional experiences in dealing with the FAA and FCC is they are terrified of making a decision.”
Back when I was a G-Man, we were told to always write PRELIMINARY on our memos. That way if they got out, we had deniability.
Chaos and/or CDC-DeepState tactics?!?
yet they can tell us how “dangerous” guns are.
Waiting to hear how this was all Trumps fault in 3, 2, 1....
They screwed the pooch.
The CDC held tight the availability of test equipment because they had rejected the German model and were trying a socialist manufacture in house.Their inhouse manufacture had multiple failures, both in the process and in the end product.
The CDC, like all government bureaucracies, has the #1 goal of circling the wagons and protecting the bureaucracy.
They were not thinking about over-estimating or under-estimating the virus. They are solely concerned about their bureaucracy.
Like President Trump said last night - we still have no idea of what the real deal inside China is because we can't trust the data...
Slamming the CDC now serves no purpose...
My past experience were the same, first encountered in the late 60s & 70s. In the private sector encountered similar types...I learned to respond to that type of avoidance with a question, “ How high is your liability profile, both coporate and personal?” Most times it was like the Kentucky Derby starting gun going off after a few seconds of consideration.
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