Yeah they still have 85% of their funding and going to get more from others. I would be happier if they were 100% defunded and reformed under better leadership.
Extreme liberals tell us the superiority of the healthcare systems in Socialist Countries in Europe and Canada yet, when push comes to shove, the extreme liberals of Hollywood and Silicon Valley are all still in the US? Harry and Meghan moved from Canada which had free healthcare and instead, moved to Los Angeles, CA? Why didn't he go back to the UK which also, had the NHS system? One of the best per Michael Moore's Sicko movie. Strangely, Michael Moore did not move his ass to the UK with the Corona Virus spreading all over? And we are fed daily by liberal media 24/7 non-stop that President Donald Trump did not act fast enough or do enough resulting in numerous deaths. Yet, more Europeans have died than Americans for their supposed prompt response and superior healthcare systems? Their death rates as a percentage of infections higher than the US as well? US has tested well more people than any other nation yet, extreme liberals call for more testing? Mind you, that puts doctors and nurses at risk but, they do not care. It does not do anything to control the Corona Virus too. Deaths piling up too. Shouldn't the objective be to save the lives of those on the brink of death?
FYI: Currently 759,786 Americans tested positive for Covid and 40,683 Americans have died. 40,683/759,786=0.0535 (5.4%) For there to be a .7% mortality rate that would mean we are not capturing about 80% of infections. Take what you want from the math but we’ll have a good idea of the infection rate in NY at the end of the week when they do an antibody study for the state. From there we’ll have a good idea of mortality with only experimental treatments and no vaccine.
It may be appropriate to note that as of April 20th the United States is up to 120 deaths per million due to COVID-19. The chart below is nearly two weeks old.
The US has conducted the most tests now for the Corona Virus worldwide. We have conducted 3,861,596 tests for the entire US. Extreme liberals continue to whine about tests, tests, we need more tests. Now, it comes out that a lot of the test kits from China does not work? What have those test kits done in reining in the Corona Virus? Nothing, nada, zippo. Even the so called experts, a lot of them extreme liberal in academia cannot even agree amongst themselves what the numbers tell them. Oh, but, they give out their expert opinions that we must quarantine ourselves as their only solution? Don't you think the focus should be on research on the different drug combos we already have in our hands? If you or your family get seriously, ill and wind up in the ICU, wouldn't you want the doctors to try to save your life with the different drug combos that have saved others? Yet, most of our resources devoted to buying and testing more and more people? One day, these same idiots advocating for more and more tests will say, why didn't we use scarce resources on testing the drug combos thoroughly, instead of wasting our resources and time testing people if they have Corona Virus?
Many other nations have tested more people per 1M in population than the U.S. The total number of tests is meaningless; the ratio to the size of the population is important for coverage. The U.S. has tested 11,666 people per 1M in population. Spain has tested 19,896 people per 1M in population. Italy has tested 22,436 people per 1M in population. Germany has tested 20,629 people per 1M in population (with full contact tracing). Switzerland has tested 25,933 people per 1M in population. Portugal has tested 23,133 people per 1M in population. Austria has tested 20,313 people per 1M in population. Norway has tested 26,425 people per 1M in population. In fact nearly every western nation has better COVID-19 testing than the U.S. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
What does testing actually do? Does it slow down the Corona Virus? Reduce the number of deaths? Hell, you can test each one of the 320 million Americans and what would that accomplish? We already know more people probably, infected which would mean they have immunity to Corona Virus and cannot infect others too when they have overcome it. It does waste precious resources in time, monies, buying useless test kits from China that does not work? In the meantime, Americans are dying in the tens of thousands? Now, if you want testing, it should be on the different drug combos. That is where monies can be deployed to save lives. Even if you manage to save 10% of those dying now, wouldn't that be worth it? A vaccine probably, would not be ready till 2021 at the earliest and you want more people tested?
In case you have not noticed it, Europe has an even higher fatality rate than the US on the percentage of dead to the infected. Combined, the European Union has more deaths than the US so, what did testing do for them? More people dying too as they keep testing people and compiling the statistics on dead people and infected people. What did all that effort, time and monies really accomplish?
Comparing Europe and the U.S. at this point is not meaningful. They are on different points on the pandemic curve. The major hot spot countries in Europe (Italy, Spain, etc.) have passed the peak and have deaths trending down. The. U.S. is trending up but four weeks behind these countries in Europe. Testing in the E.U. worked very well when combined with contract tracing. A combination that Germany proved worked very well. "What did all that effort, time and monies really accomplish?" It kept the number of deaths much lower than it would have been otherwise.