It appears that the well-funded Center For Disease Control (CDC) may have ended up crippling efforts to fight the Coronavirus through a series of disastrous bureaucratic blunders. As The Daily Mail reports:
A series of missteps at the nation’s top public health agency caused a critical shortage of tests for coronavirus, hobbling the federal response as the pandemic spread across the country like wildfire, an Associated Press review found.
President Donald Trump assured Americans earlier this month that the test developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is ‘perfect’ and that ‘anyone who wants a test can get a test.’
But more than two months after the first US case of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, was confirmed, many people still cannot get tested.
In February, as the virus began taking root in the US population, CDC data shows government labs processed 352 COVID-19 tests – an average of only a dozen per day.
It seems that big government incompetence may end up being potentially even more lethal the the virus itself.
If true, how will those who dropped the ball, be treated. Drummed out of the regiment, or feted with ruffles and flourishes.
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This is trash reporting at its worst. A third grader could have written this better. Please remove me from your email group.
Look at the screw ups in 2009. Far worse. Testing was 98% positive then so hardly any being done they gave up. It’s 10% positive now every where but NY is upper 20’s positive. Estimated total cases far more important as millions have this probably by this time as they did in 2009. Luckily that lowers death rate. Although the dead in 2009 were 87% ages 0-65 instead of now predominantly older. If you have symptoms you have it. Millions will get it will never truly go away. Mexican swine flu still killing every year 75,000 from April 2009 to end of 2018. 7500 deaths a year average in US. Check out how long the vaccine took almost 6 months till first injection. We are at 2 months. Zero media panic back then 100% now.
The Chinese have created this pandemic in their experimental laboratory as a biological weapon. With the help of the media this pandemic sees no end. Any other virus was never treated like this even though people were dying too. The US economy was doing so well that the Chinese had to do something to slow it down. No country on earth should get so involved with China as to depend on them for anything. especially the USA where we can manufacture everything and be self sufficient. I do not like to buy anything made in China but it seems no matter what you pick up it says “Made in China”.
Yes, sir, Ralph. I was gonna swat ’em with a fly swatter, but now I see you have already pulverized ’em with a sledge hammer. Thanks.