SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Usually it's not the people who POST stuff that gets the thread kicked down into the dungeon....and we've seen politicized viruses (viri?) before....

Never let a good crisis.....

 

Hummmm, sounds like a great excuse to attend a rally of someone I don't care for.

Bob Wilson

 

From the depths of somewhere, a memory that the plural might be virii. With i happening twice. I mean three times.

 

the i's have it.....

 

Also from the NYT version:

"House Democrats said on Thursday that the official who voiced concerns to superiors about the situation was subjected to professional retaliation."

Have any non-partisan sources confirmed this allegation of retaliation?​

 

Are there any non-partisan sources LEFT in the world??? (pun almost unintended)

 

According to WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus:

“More than 20 vaccines are in development globally, and several therapeutics are in clinical trials. We expect the first results in a few weeks”

Healthwise, there are very many groups working on this. Businesswise, there seems to be plenty of competition.

 

According to the US experts, after a vaccine is developed there are 9 - 12 months of trials, etc. before it would be available to help.

 

That is the shortest claim I've heard for mass deployment. Others are saying 12-18 months.

 

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How does someone become a professional retaliator?

Mike

 

Unless, of course, the human trials are fast-tracked in a country that has rules that are more lax.

Mike

 

An intensive course of online study is available by turning on the news.

 

Over what? The center?

 

From our bungled program for testing suspected infected persons, it seems as if the U.S. isn't accepting any foreign help or advice or knowledge, not even from First World nations.

It seems that the likely reason the U.S. has few confirmed cases, is because we have very limited capacity to even perform the confirmation tests. As in our total number of tests administered, over the entire course of this outbreak to date, is less than many other countries (even smaller poorer ones) are administering per day.

 

Well that does simplify the logic: if it is negative about Trump, ignore it.

Bob Wilson

 

"amid warnings from public health officials that a 2020 outbreak of a new coronavirus could soon become a pandemic involving the U.S., alarmed readers asked Snopes to verify a rumor that U.S. President Donald Trump had “fired the entire pandemic response team two years ago and then didn’t replace them.”

The claim came from a series of tweets posted by Judd Legum, who runs Popular Information, a newsletter he describes as being about “politics and power.” Legum’s commentary was representative of sharp criticism from Democratic legislators (and some Republicans) that the Trump administration had ill-prepared the country for a pandemic even as one was looming on the horizon.

Legum outlined a series of cost-cutting decisions made by the Trump administration in preceding years that had gutted the nation’s infectious disease defense infrastructure. The “pandemic response team” firing claim referred to news accounts from Spring 2018 reporting that White House officials tasked with directing a national response to a pandemic had been ousted.

Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer abruptly departed from his post leading the global health security team on the National Security Council in May 2018 amid a reorganization of the council by then-National Security Advisor John Bolton, and Ziemer’s team was disbanded. Tom Bossert, whom the Washington Post reported “had called for a comprehensive biodefense strategy against pandemics and biological attacks,” had been fired one month prior.

It’s thus true that the Trump administration axed the executive branch team responsible for coordinating a response to a pandemic and did not replace it, eliminating Ziemer’s position and reassigning others, although Bolton was the executive at the top of the National Security Council chain of command at the time."

Legum stated in a follow-up tweet that “Trump also cut funding for the CDC, forcing the CDC to cancel its efforts to help countries prevent infectious-disease threats from becoming epidemics in 39 of 49 countries in 2018. Among the countries abandoned? China.” That was partly true, according to 2018 news reports stating that funding for the CDC’s global disease outbreak prevention efforts had been reduced by 80%, including funding for the agency’s efforts in China. But that was the result of the anticipated depletion of previously allotted funding, not a direct cut by the Trump administration.

On Feb. 24, 2020, the Trump administration requested $2.5 billion to address the coronavirus outbreak, an outlay critics asserted might not have been necessary if the previous program cuts had not taken place. Fortune reported of the issue that:

The cuts could be especially problematic as COVID-19 continues to spread. Health officials are now warning the U.S. is unlikely to be spared, even though cases are minimal here so far.

“It’s not so much of a question of if this will happen in this country any more but a question of when this will happen and how many people in this country will have severe illness,” Dr. Nancy Messonnier, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said during a press call [on Feb. 25].

 

sorry @Greenteapri , you're in the wrong forum