Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Unpleasant truths, but let’s not let it get washed away in the deluge of misery. This was more important that Fauci’s testimony in the same hearing.

A US public health chief told Congress on Tuesday that coronavirus has “brought this nation to its knees” as America struggles with more than 2.3 million confirmed cases and more than 121,000 deaths so far.

Dr Robert Redfield, director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told a hearing in Washington that core public health capabilities in the US had been vastly underfunded for a long time and needed urgent investment.

“We have all done the best that we can do to tackle this virus and the reality is that it’s brought this nation to its knees,” Redfield told the House energy and commerce committee.

“We are probably going to spend $7tn because of one little virus,” he added.

He said that the US had “used the capacity that we have” to confront the pandemic but that “the critics will be there”.

The Trump administration has been heavily criticized for a slow and shaky early response to coronavirus as it spread from Asia and Europe to the US in early 2020, especially as Donald Trump repeatedly downplayed the risk of Covid-19 and the damage it would come to wreak upon the US.

Redfield said that the US at local, state and federal level has chronically underinvested in “the core capabilities of public health”, including data analysis, “laboratory resilience”, the public health workforce, emergency response capabilities and “our global health security around the world”, adding that “now is the time” to step up spending.​

Coronavirus has brought U.S. “to its knees,” says CDC director — The Guardian

 

He's right.

 

I wonder if Trump picked Phoenix for Tuesday's klan rally because the Trumpandemic was already growing so rapidly there. This way, it'll be hard to notice any uptick that occurs in the area. Any idea if contact tracing is in place? I'm going to guess it's not because the campaign forbids it. He's going to have his rallies and he won't care if people die because of them.

 

"Drumpf" knows best.

 

Students bring COVID-19 back from Myrtle Beach trips

 

He also picked it because he's in line to lose a state that has gone Republican all but one time since it voted for Truman in 48.

 

Texas Children's admitting adult patients because of COVID-19 surge

 

What planet is Redfield living on? Not for one minute has the U.S. done the best it could do.

 

Time for college football coaches to issue a stick directive rather than a carrot directive: "If you don't start wearing masks in public, we won't have college football" rather than "Do your part to keep us going."
And then it'll be an interesting call for the SEC Trumpist crowd. Do they love their bigot in chief more than they love their teams?