Duuuuh.
Its his first go at this pandemic thing.
I can bet by the time he leaves office, it'll be a hell of a lot more than Obama's 30M.
Come on Tony. How ignorant is that? And that's after a 1000 plus Americans died of swine flu. On his watch. He didn't take note?!!!
Christ, only 986 Louisiana residents died in Katrina
https://www.datacenterresearch.org/data-resources/katrina/facts-for-impact/
I'm sure you can find a few higher counts... but I can remember people terrified to the point of not living their lives because of Swine Flu. It took over 6 months to declare an emergency. Michelle was on vacation as I recall.
I think you should give a reach-around maga... at least... to djt. So far its petering out in N. America if you look at the China statistics... which I'm sure were waaaaay under-reported.
(Next post... "Tony Starck".... In Puerto Rico the count was....)
https://fortune.com/2020/02/26/coronavirus-covid-19-cdc-budget-cuts-us-trump/
Trump administration budget cuts could become a major problem as coronavirus spreads
By
Chris Morris
February 26, 2020 11:45 AM EST
The Trump administration recently requested $2.5 billion in emergency funds to prepare the U.S. for a possible widespread outbreak of
coronavirus. Critics, though, are pointing out that money might not be necessary if the administration hadn’t spent the past two years largely dismantling government units that were designed to protect against pandemics.
The cuts started in 2018, as the White House
focused on eliminating funding to Obama-era disease security programs. In March of that year, Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer, whose job it was to lead the U.S. response in the event of a pandemic, abruptly left the administration and his global health security team was disbanded.
That same year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was
forced to slash its efforts to prevent global disease outbreak by 80% as its funding for the program began to run out. The agency, at the time, opted to focus on 10 priority countries and scale back in others, including China.
Also cut was the
Complex Crises Fund, a $30 million emergency response pool that was at the secretary of state’s disposal to deploy disease experts and others in the event of a crisis. (The fund was created by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.)
Overall in 2018, Trump called for
$15 billion in reduced health spending that had previously been approved, as he looked at increasing budget deficits, cutting the global disease-fighting budgets of the CDC, National Security Council (NSC), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Health and Human Services (HHS) in the process.
The effects of those cuts are being felt today. While the CDC announced plans to test people with flu-like symptoms for COVID-19, those
have been delayed and only three of the country’s 100 public-health labs have been able to test for coronavirus. The administration’s request for additional funding came roughly two weeks after officials said HHS was almost out of funding for its response to the virus.
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 Tuesday.
