Posted on 12/08/2022 2:01:49 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — Many of the deaths and much of the economic damage from the Covid pandemic could have been prevented, particularly in the early months of the coronavirus's spread, had the federal government been better prepared after decades of warnings, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee said in a report Thursday.
The 242-page report, written by Democrats on the panel, cited long-term weaknesses in the country’s public health infrastructure, from staffing shortages and inadequate disease surveillance to poor testing systems. Those factors, combined with the Trump administration's failure to adequately stock up on personal protective equipment and provide accurate information to the public, were the main contributors to preventable Covid deaths and economic damage, the report said.
“The loss of life, the damage to the health and livelihoods of countless Americans and the suffering that was caused by the pandemic were not inevitable. We could have handled the situation a whole lot differently,” committee Chairman Gary Peters, D-Mich., said on a call with reporters.
The findings were drawn in part from new interviews with Trump administration officials involved in the initial response, including Dr. Robert Redfield, who was the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; former Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar; and Dr. Deborah Birx, the coordinator of the Trump White House Coronavirus Task Force.
But the report indicated that the pandemic shortcomings extended beyond the Trump administration.
“Despite repeated warnings, systemic inadequacies in public health surveillance systems, years of insufficient funding, over dependence on foreign supply chains, and growing medical and public health staffing shortages, all contributed to what has become one of the worst public health responses in U.S. history,” the report said.
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ChiComcast.
Always boils down to blaming Trump.
Does the report mention Pelosi urging everyone to go out to dinner?
BS!
IVERMECTIN....HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE...ZINC...DOXYCYCLINE...OXYGEN INSTEAD A RESPIRATOR
All treatments identified early on. Treatments that were damn near 100% effective in saving lives. Do some research and find the doctors in your area that were able to treat people with that and ask them how many patients were lost.
Quite frankly, I do not care about the rest of the world, I care about the fact that close to 1,000,000 people in the most medically advanced country on the planet lost their lives, actually MURDERED, by scumbags like Fauci, Birx, Collins, Walensky, etc etc. While at the same time, the real doctors that were doing the work were silenced.
Family members couldn’t be with their loved ones or see them before being buried.
F**KING disgusting what these people did and are being allowed to get away with.
These scumbags should be driven around on flatbed trucks, tied to posts so anyone that wants to, can throw rocks at them and spit on them.
What is that referring to? Masks that don't work - according to Fauci and multiple studies?
THIS!
Does the report mention Birx admitting that they lied to Pres Trump and were just making stuff up?
1) idiot scientists funded by the US Govt create dangerous virus that doesn't occur naturally
2) idiots funded by US Govt send this tech to Chinese lab for them to play with
Government will never respond well to something like this.
“Trump administration’s failure to adequately stock up on personal protective equipment”
Okay then. Show a peer reviewed publication that personal protective equipment, that is surgical masks, stopped the spread of the virus.
There’s not one? Strange.
Wasnt Bolton the one who cut funding for preparedness?
It was the OBAMA administration who depleted the PPE stockpiles during the H1N1 fly scare and never refilled them.
But the ignoramuses who get their news from the MSM won’t remember that.
Never tell the truth if a lie will serve.
How about the seven states that forced nursing homes to take Covid patients? If that isn’t covered, then it’s likely a bunch of over-massaged BS.
The commie RATS can blame Trump all they want. It was their friggin’ fascist “judges” in their evil black robes who caused the dempanic to go to hell. The “judges” whined that it was “wasis” not to allow those bass turds all over the world with Covid to fly into America. Because the RAT bass turds wanted it that way. They wanted their banana republic mail in ballots and lots of dead Americans that they could replace with bottom feeders from the other side of the border.
The mandates and protocols are the reasons so many died.
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