Can you cite something other than Fox News to make your point that US was well prepared? Fox News's job is to cover for Trump, they cannot be trusted on anything.
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Can you cite something other than Fox News to make your point that US was well prepared? Fox News's job is to cover for Trump, they cannot be trusted on anything.
Well, the article covers not one, but several DNC media controlled lies that the TDS brainwashed public has believed as accurate.
I challenge you to find anything in that article that the author is falsifying as part of his case against a corrupt DNC controlled media.
Anything. One single source, stat, or conclusion.
Whoa. MSDNC goes full sexist and totally treats Deborah Brix as an invisible non-entity.
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ripped for falsely claiming 'no doctors' were at White House presser, urges networks to cut away
"Dr. Deborah Brix [sic] — the response coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force — is standing directly behind him and has spoken multiple times. What even is this tweet?" Washington Examiner reporter Jerry Dunleavy asked.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc...-wh-presser-after-urging-networks-to-cut-away
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ripped for falsely claiming 'no doctors' were at White House presser, urges networks to cut away
"Dr. Deborah Brix [sic] — the response coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force — is standing directly behind him and has spoken multiple times. What even is this tweet?" Washington Examiner reporter Jerry Dunleavy asked.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc...-wh-presser-after-urging-networks-to-cut-away
That's easy, the Fox News report dismissed the CDC firing based on one quote when the Reuters report said this
"No other foreign disease experts were assigned to lead the programme after Quick left in July, according to the sources. Zhu said an embedded expert can often get word of outbreaks early, after forming close relationships with Chinese counterparts.
Zhu and the other sources said Quick could have provided real-time information to US and other officials around the world during the first weeks of the outbreak, when they said the Chinese government curbed the release of information and provided erroneous assessments."
Why would Fox News cherry pick from the entire report to pretend that the firing was of no consequence when the article says otherwise?
Joe is wrong and an asshole...but Dr. Brix never talks about anything medical and goes on these nonsensical ramblings about millennial and social distancing. When she starts talking I picture this:
I haven't got time for this bullshit. Anyone who is other than a drone can see the guy has serious mental issues, or is otherwise a clown. I mean who goes around bragging about grabbing women by "their puissies," or claiming "Mexico Will Pay for the Wall". Presidential material!, yah right. You guys are hopeless.You are indeed a brainwashed TDS DNC controlled zombie like all the other TDS idiots here.
Don't be fooled by the DNC Chinese controlled media. Wake the fuck up! You guys are being totally played.
US was more prepared for pandemic than any other country, Johns Hopkins study found
By Gregg Re | Fox News
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Breaking down the latest coronavirus data from Washington state
Dr. Alex Greninger shares insight on COVID-19 pandemic from the University of Washington Virology Lab.
The United States was ranked the best-prepared country in the world to handle a pandemic in late 2019 by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (JHU) -- an assessment seemingly at odds with claims by Democrats that the Trump administration left the country vulnerable to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.
The Global Health Security Index was was "developed with guidance from an international panel of experts from 13 countries, with research by the Economist Intelligence Unit," The Washington Post reported last year. "More than 100 researchers spent a year collecting and validating publicly available data.”
At the same time, the paper noted that the U.S. score was still not perfect, and that "factors driving down the U.S. score include the risks of social unrest and terrorism, and low public confidence in government."
SEE THE FULL 2019 GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY INDEX RANKINGS
President Trump's campaign has argued in recent days that misinformation may be one of the leading causes of that lack of confidence. For example, Trump's team has pointed to claims by presidential contender Joe Biden that "no one on the National Security Council staff was put in charge" of pandemic preparedness, based on a report that in May 2018, then-National Security Adviser John Bolton eliminated the NSC’s Office of Global Health Security and Biodefense in a reorganization effort.
Rear Adm. R. Timothy Ziemer reportedly was ousted as senior director, and no replacement was named. But, FactCheck.org has determined that the matter amounted to a reorganization, and that “some team members [of the NSC pandemic office] were shifted to other groups, and others took over some of [the top official’s] duties.”
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The White House says the NSC remains involved in responding to the coronavirus pandemic. A senior administration official said earlier this month that the NSC’s global health security directorate was absorbed into another division where similar responsibilities still exist, but under different titles. The work of coordinating policy and making sure that decisions made by Trump’s coronavirus task force are implemented is still the job of the NSC.
Separately, the Biden team has repeatedly argued that the president once referred to coronavirus as a "hoax." That claim has been refuted by numerous fact-checkers, including the Post's, which found that Trump was clearly referring to Democrats' efforts to blame him for the pandemic, not the virus itself.
PELOSI'S STIMULUS BILL CONTAINS PROVISIONS FOR OBAMAPHONES, CLIMATE CHANGE PREVENTION
Additionally, numerous Democrats, including Biden, have falsely claimed that the president cut the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) budget. The Associated Press has noted that those claims "distort" the facts.
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In January, Donald Trump claimed the coronavirus was “totally under control.”
In February, he said it would disappear.
Now, he’s saying it “could’ve been stopped pretty easily if we had known.”
Donald Trump knew. He failed to act. And now we’re paying the price.
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Trump’s budgets have proposed cuts to public health, only to be overruled by Congress, where there’s strong bipartisan support for agencies such as the CDC and NIH. Instead, financing has increased. Indeed, the money that government disease detectives first tapped to fight the latest outbreak was a congressional fund created for health emergencies.
Some public health experts say a bigger concern than White House budgets is the steady erosion of a CDC grant program for state and local public health emergency preparedness — the front lines in detecting and battling new disease. But that decline was set in motion by a congressional budget measure that predates Trump.
“The CDC’s response has been excellent, as it has been in the past,” said John Auerbach, president of the nonpartisan Trust for America’s Health, which works with government at all levels to improve the nation’s response to high-risk health crises. Some Democrats have charged that Trump decimated the nation’s public health leadership, but Auerbach said CDC’s top scientific ranks have remained stable during the past three years.
People work in a lab that President Donald Trump watched during his meeting about the coronavirus at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Friday, March 6, 2020 in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Nevertheless, misleading reports about the Trump campaign's pandemic response efforts have continued to spread. A recent report by Reuters that the U.S. had recently terminated a CDC position in China was widely cited by Democrats and reporters as evidence of a lack of preparedness, and formed the basis for a reporter's question at a recent White House coronavirus briefing.
But, the article itself made clear that experts didn't think the move had anything to do with the spread of coronavirus in the United States.
"One disease expert told Reuters he was skeptical that the U.S. resident adviser would have been able to get earlier or better information to the Trump administration, given the Chinese government’s suppression of information," the outlet noted.
“In the end, based on circumstances in China, it probably wouldn’t have made a big difference,” former CDC epidemiologist and Emory University professor Scott McNabb told Reuters.
“The problem was how the Chinese handled it," McNabb continued. "What should have changed was the Chinese should have acknowledged it earlier and didn’t.”
Regardless, some lawmakers are pushing for more action out of an abundance of caution. Rep. Gerald Connolly, D-Va., and Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, have introduced a bill that would require future administrations to have experts always in place to prepare for new pandemics.
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“Two years ago, the administration dismantled the apparatus that had been put in place five years before in the face of the Ebola crisis,” Connolly said. “I think, in retrospect, that was an unwise move. This bill would restore that and institutionalize it.”
Connolly said the bill is not meant to be critical of the Trump administration. He said it’s a recognition that Trump had to name a coronavirus responder just like Obama had to name one for Ebola in 2014. “We can’t go from pandemic to pandemic,” Connolly said.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee on March 4 passed the measure, which is co-sponsored by 37 Democrats and five Republicans.
Extreme liberal idiots think they are immune to the Corona Virus and their stupidity gives them some sort of immunity to it. Let us see when they themselves and their families get affected if they sing a different tune. Blaming President Donald Trump is not going to save your sorry asses. The usual complaint is the US did not act sooner? Do you even see what is happening to Italy and Spain for starters? What do these bastions of extreme liberal Socialism with their supposed superior free healthcare for all do to stem the Corona Virus? US response to the Corona Virus should be compared with other countries objectively, without seeking to score cheap political gains for petty partisan gains. Germany and the UK are in bad shape as well. What is the explanation then?
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https://www.baltimoresun.com/corona...0200324-h7mbqlvucjh2df6pfc6czyvmqe-story.htmlYou are indeed a brainwashed TDS DNC controlled zombie like all the other TDS idiots here.
Don't be fooled by the DNC Chinese controlled media. Wake the fuck up! You guys are being totally played.
US was more prepared for pandemic than any other country, Johns Hopkins study found
By Gregg Re | Fox News
Breaking down the latest coronavirus data from Washington state
Dr. Alex Greninger shares insight on COVID-19 pandemic from the University of Washington Virology Lab.
The United States was ranked the best-prepared country in the world to handle a pandemic in late 2019 by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (JHU) -- an assessment seemingly at odds with claims by Democrats that the Trump administration left the country vulnerable to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.
The Global Health Security Index was was "developed with guidance from an international panel of experts from 13 countries, with research by the Economist Intelligence Unit," The Washington Post reported last year. "More than 100 researchers spent a year collecting and validating publicly available data.”
At the same time, the paper noted that the U.S. score was still not perfect, and that "factors driving down the U.S. score include the risks of social unrest and terrorism, and low public confidence in government."
SEE THE FULL 2019 GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY INDEX RANKINGS
President Trump's campaign has argued in recent days that misinformation may be one of the leading causes of that lack of confidence. For example, Trump's team has pointed to claims by presidential contender Joe Biden that "no one on the National Security Council staff was put in charge" of pandemic preparedness, based on a report that in May 2018, then-National Security Adviser John Bolton eliminated the NSC’s Office of Global Health Security and Biodefense in a reorganization effort.
Rear Adm. R. Timothy Ziemer reportedly was ousted as senior director, and no replacement was named. But, FactCheck.org has determined that the matter amounted to a reorganization, and that “some team members [of the NSC pandemic office] were shifted to other groups, and others took over some of [the top official’s] duties.”
The White House says the NSC remains involved in responding to the coronavirus pandemic. A senior administration official said earlier this month that the NSC’s global health security directorate was absorbed into another division where similar responsibilities still exist, but under different titles. The work of coordinating policy and making sure that decisions made by Trump’s coronavirus task force are implemented is still the job of the NSC.
Separately, the Biden team has repeatedly argued that the president once referred to coronavirus as a "hoax." That claim has been refuted by numerous fact-checkers, including the Post's, which found that Trump was clearly referring to Democrats' efforts to blame him for the pandemic, not the virus itself.
PELOSI'S STIMULUS BILL CONTAINS PROVISIONS FOR OBAMAPHONES, CLIMATE CHANGE PREVENTION
Additionally, numerous Democrats, including Biden, have falsely claimed that the president cut the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) budget. The Associated Press has noted that those claims "distort" the facts.
Guy Benson
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In the middle the pandemic, you called Coronavirus the “swine flu,” opposed travel restrictions from global epicenters that experts have credited as helpful, and parroted the CCP’s ‘bigotry’ line on Beijing culpability. https://twitter.com/joebiden/status/1242240964288286721 …
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In January, Donald Trump claimed the coronavirus was “totally under control.”
In February, he said it would disappear.
Now, he’s saying it “could’ve been stopped pretty easily if we had known.”
Donald Trump knew. He failed to act. And now we’re paying the price.
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Trump’s budgets have proposed cuts to public health, only to be overruled by Congress, where there’s strong bipartisan support for agencies such as the CDC and NIH. Instead, financing has increased. Indeed, the money that government disease detectives first tapped to fight the latest outbreak was a congressional fund created for health emergencies.
Some public health experts say a bigger concern than White House budgets is the steady erosion of a CDC grant program for state and local public health emergency preparedness — the front lines in detecting and battling new disease. But that decline was set in motion by a congressional budget measure that predates Trump.
“The CDC’s response has been excellent, as it has been in the past,” said John Auerbach, president of the nonpartisan Trust for America’s Health, which works with government at all levels to improve the nation’s response to high-risk health crises. Some Democrats have charged that Trump decimated the nation’s public health leadership, but Auerbach said CDC’s top scientific ranks have remained stable during the past three years.
People work in a lab that President Donald Trump watched during his meeting about the coronavirus at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Friday, March 6, 2020 in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Nevertheless, misleading reports about the Trump campaign's pandemic response efforts have continued to spread. A recent report by Reuters that the U.S. had recently terminated a CDC position in China was widely cited by Democrats and reporters as evidence of a lack of preparedness, and formed the basis for a reporter's question at a recent White House coronavirus briefing.
But, the article itself made clear that experts didn't think the move had anything to do with the spread of coronavirus in the United States.
"One disease expert told Reuters he was skeptical that the U.S. resident adviser would have been able to get earlier or better information to the Trump administration, given the Chinese government’s suppression of information," the outlet noted.
“In the end, based on circumstances in China, it probably wouldn’t have made a big difference,” former CDC epidemiologist and Emory University professor Scott McNabb told Reuters.
“The problem was how the Chinese handled it," McNabb continued. "What should have changed was the Chinese should have acknowledged it earlier and didn’t.”
Regardless, some lawmakers are pushing for more action out of an abundance of caution. Rep. Gerald Connolly, D-Va., and Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, have introduced a bill that would require future administrations to have experts always in place to prepare for new pandemics.
2020 in 60: Joe Biden hosts first coronavirus shadow briefing
'Fox News @ Night' anchor Shannon Bream delivers a 2020 update in 60 seconds on the biggest political stories.
“Two years ago, the administration dismantled the apparatus that had been put in place five years before in the face of the Ebola crisis,” Connolly said. “I think, in retrospect, that was an unwise move. This bill would restore that and institutionalize it.”
Connolly said the bill is not meant to be critical of the Trump administration. He said it’s a recognition that Trump had to name a coronavirus responder just like Obama had to name one for Ebola in 2014. “We can’t go from pandemic to pandemic,” Connolly said.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee on March 4 passed the measure, which is co-sponsored by 37 Democrats and five Republicans.
Hours after Trump discusses walking back coronavirus measures, Johns Hopkins official warns of consequences
“Anyone advising the end of social distancing now, needs to fully understand what the country will look like if we do that,” the health security director tweeted. “COVID would spread widely, rapidly, terribly, could kill potentially millions in the yr ahead with huge social and economic impact across the country.”
About a week ago, the Trump administration recommended Americans halt almost all activities. On Sunday night, the president said: “We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself. At the end of the 15-day period, we will make a decision as to which way we want to go.”
“The impact of big interventions in Wuhan China took about 3 wks to start to reverse things. And then everyday after the situation got better,” the tweet said. “In the US, we’re about 7 to 10 days into this, depending on the state. To drop all these measures now would be to accept that COVID pts will get sick in extraordinary numbers all over the country, far beyond what the US health care system could bear.”
Once those measures are in place, Inglesby said, it would be a “far less risky time to take stock of social distancing measures in place and consider what might gradually be reduced with trial and error.”
“We also need to put every conceivable econ program in place to help those being hurt by these social distancing measures,” he said. “And move ahead rapidly to get our country far better prepared to cope w COVID before people recommend we abandon our efforts to slow this virus.”
I dont have any problem with her playing a key role in the response team. Her credentials in the CDC and global infectious disease research and all of that are solid. And she was an Obama appointee in a couple of her roles and that's fine.
But as chief coordinator for the virus response effort. Ahh, no. Within her lane, yes. But she has the researchy, CDC, WHO aura and disposition and I cannot sense a single operational and logistics planning bone in her body. She is not back managing a research lab or just sitting at endless WHO meetings as some kind of global HIV ambassador or whatever.
And here is the cherry on top of the BS sundae. Why didn't these extreme liberal media hacks question the outsourcing of the production of crucial medical equipment for US needs to China? They did not question the companies responsible, Bill Clinton, GW Bush, Barack Obama why they allowed that to happen on their watch? Is this not a National Security concern? What are the chances China is delaying or cutting back on the export of masks, face shields, medical coats, etc. to the US. US of course, now scrambling and helpless to come out with it out of thin air?