Trump WH Ditched National Testing Plan in April Because Virus Was Only Hitting ‘Blue States'

Discussion in 'Politics' started by exGOPer, Jul 30, 2020.

  1. exGOPer

    exGOPer

    Katherine Eban reported on the group’s secret testing plan in a new report, which included the revelation that the team, led by White House senior adviser and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner, bought 3.5 million Covid-19 tests for $52 million from an Abu Dhabi–based artificial intelligence company. They were never used, deemed “contaminated and unusable.”

    Kushner’s team created a report designed for President Donald Trump to read aimed at fixing challenges like “uneven testing capacity and supplies throughout the U.S., both between and within regions, significant delays in reporting results (4-11 days), and national supply chain constraints, such as PPE, swabs, and certain testing reagents.”

    The plan was a “starting point,” Eban writes, but it didn’t come together because people in April thought the virus would soon go away. Vanity Fair continues:

    Against that background, the prospect of launching a large-scale national plan was losing favor, said one public health expert in frequent contact with the White House’s official coronavirus task force.

    Most troubling of all, perhaps, was a sentiment the expert said a member of Kushner’s team expressed: that because the virus had hit blue states hardest, a national plan was unnecessary and would not make sense politically. “The political folks believed that because it was going to be relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy,” said the expert.

    That logic may have swayed Kushner. “It was very clear that Jared was ultimately the decision maker as to what [plan] was going to come out,” the expert said.

    Kushner’s plan to create a federal testing operation was officially tossed when Trump announced his plan to shift testing responsibilities to individual states on April 27 during a press briefing.

    https://www.mediaite.com/politics/t...ause-virus-was-only-hitting-blue-states-hard/
     
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  2. More Lies!
     
  3. Bugenhagen

    Bugenhagen

    Haha
     
  4. piezoe

    piezoe

    It would be an under statement to say the placing the President's son-in-law, B.A. Sociology, and a real estate developer, in charge of the U.S. response to the Covid-19 Pandemic has produced a decidedly different result than the U.S. approach to fighting the SARS epidemic of 2003 produced. -- SARS is a closely related corona virus that was equally contagious and equally lethal if contracted. SARS causes the same symptoms as Covid-19.

    In 2003 , in contrast to 2020, professionals were put in charge without interference from the White House. The effort was coordinated world wide via the WHO, an organization that Trump recently withdrew the U.S. from!. The U.S. response to Covid-19 stands in stark contrast to The U.S. Public Health Response to SARS . [see for example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92460/]

    An excerpt from NBK92460 ...
    The Global Response
    As noted earlier, the WHO response to SARS was spearheaded by GOARN. To extend its capacity for surveillance, reporting, and containment, WHO enlisted the support of public health services from the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, and other nations. GOARN recruited more than 60 teams of medical experts to assist with infection control in SARS-affected areas, which included 84 personnel from the U.S. CDC. Ultimately, more than 800 CDC employees were involved in the response to SARS.

    Through GOARN, WHO also established a virtual network of 11 leading infectious disease laboratories in 9 countries. Connected by a secure website and daily teleconferences, the laboratories collaborated to identify the causative agent of SARS and to develop a diagnostic test; similar groups were also created to pool clinical knowledge and compare epidemiological data on SARS. By April 16, exactly 1 month after the laboratory network was established, its researchers had conclusively identified SCoV as the causative agent.

    When evidence revealed that persons infected with SCoV continued to travel—placing adjacent passengers on airplanes at risk of infection—WHO advised airlines to screen departing passengers (WHO, 2003n). Further WHO advisories to avoid all but essential travel to certain high-risk areas were the most restrictive in the history of the organization (WHO, 2003c). The U.S. CDC and Health Canada also issued advisories that warned against travel to SARS-affected countries.

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    Perhaps putting the Presidents son in law in charge was not such a good idea.
     
    Last edited: Jul 30, 2020
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  5. gaussian

    gaussian

    The WHO doesn't recognize Taiwan as a country and has been running defense for China since this started.

    Probably worth asking who the man pulling the strings actually is.



    That being said putting a real estate developer in charge of pandemic response was a really, really poor decision.
     
  6. Buy1Sell2

    Buy1Sell2

    FALSE
     
  7. Expect a Blue States Matter uprising after this report. Soon all of your buildings will be burning down to the ground.
     
  8. RRY16

    RRY16

    Ms.Kushner is not to be trusted.
     
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  9. piezoe

    piezoe

    Yes, it was.
     
  10. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    More details...

    How Jared Kushner’s Secret Testing Plan “Went Poof Into Thin Air”
    This spring, a team working under the president's son-in-law produced a plan for an aggressive, coordinated national COVID-19 response that could have brought the pandemic under control. So why did the White House spike it in favor of a shambolic 50-state response?
    https://www.vanityfair.com/news/202...s-secret-testing-plan-went-poof-into-thin-air
     
    #10     Aug 1, 2020