Reuters:
Special Report: Former Labradoodle breeder was tapped to lead U.S. pandemic task force
“We developed a diagnostic test at the CDC, so we can confirm if somebody has this,” Azar said. “We will be spreading that diagnostic around the country so that we are able to do rapid testing on site.”
While coronavirus in Wuhan, China, was “potentially serious,” Azar assured viewers in America, it “was one for which we have a playbook.”
Azar’s initial comments misfired on two fronts. Like many U.S. officials, from President Donald Trump on down, he underestimated the pandemic’s severity. He also overestimated his agency’s preparedness.
As is now widely known, two agencies Azar oversaw as HHS secretary, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, wouldn’t come up with viable tests for five and half weeks, even as other countries and the World Health Organization had already prepared their own.
- It's been 3 months since Azar told us his super tests were on the way.
- It's been 7 weeks since Pence told us millions of test kits were on the way
- Right now, tests are available only to those who're symptomatic, which means each of those patients have been sick for at least seveal days, which means they've been infecting others for at least several fucking days.
Labradoodles!?!
44 Texas spring breakers who partied in Cabo have tested positive for the coronavirus
Originally, 28 people who returned from the trip were confirmed positive, reported Tony Plohetski of local station KVUE-TV in a string of tweets on Tuesday. "According to officials, about 70 people in their 20s got on a chartered plane for a spring break trip about a week and a half ago," he wrote in a follow-up tweet. "Although they were not under a travel advisory at the time, people are still asked to limit travel to essential needs."
The chartered plane, which took off from the Austin airport, was part of an organized trip by college trip planner JusCollege, according to The Times. The company had sent out emails to students before the trip assuaging any coronavirus fears, reported local station KVUE. One sent on March 12 read, "we're currently in our 2nd week of Cabo and have had almost 5,000 travelers, all with no issues."
Profit before people.
Researchers in France say early data indicates those who smoke make up a disproportionately small number of people in hospital with COVID-19.
A study at Paris's Pitie-Salpetriere hospital suggests a substance in tobacco, thought to be nicotine, was preventing smokers contracting coronavirus.And then, most helpfully:
... as if any kind of admonishment would make any fucking difference to people who're already in panic mode - not so much panicked about the virus, but about looking to latch onto some bullshit magic bullet that'll help them rationalize their own mush-brained thinking about every goddamned thing in the whole fucking universe.
If it was anyone than Trump, it would be another "Heck of a job, Brownie" moment.
ReplyDeleteBut, seeing as it is Trump, @the realdonaldtrump tweet will lay this failure, and it will fail, at Azar's feet.
It's worse than Nixon. At least Nixon would pretend he had some scruples in public. This 45* guy doesn't care what it looks like or what it actually is - he does whatever he thinks will get him thru the moment.
ReplyDeleteI didn't say what I said.
I didn't do what I did.
You didn't see and hear what you saw and heard.
Deny deny deny.
1. If it's true but it works against me, then it's false.
2. If it's false but it works in my favor, then it's true.
Mike, you guys are fucked. Seriously fucked. And as Canada is tied at the hip to you guys for like 80% of our GDP, we will be fucked with you. Thinking of starting a garden and raising chickens down here in Guatemala, 9only slightly joking).
ReplyDeleteWe had a good run. 250 years is well above the average.
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