From WAPO [emphasis mine]:
Trump and other federal officials have said that governors should take the lead on ensuring that needed medical supplies are available in their states and that the federal government should be a “backstop” when shortfalls become apparent.
But in a Sunday interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R ) and Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee (D) said the current approach to the procurement of medical supplies could be improved.
“It literally is a global jungle that we’re competing in now,” Hutchinson said. “I’d like to see a better way, but that’s the reality in which we are.”
Inslee harshly criticized Trump’s insistence on a state-led response and said it is “ludicrous that we do not have a national effort” to manage the procurement of medical equipment. Commenting on Surgeon General Jerome Adams’s statements comparing the virus to the Pearl Harbor attack, Inslee said: “Can you imagine if Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, ‘I’ll be right behind you, Connecticut. Good luck building those battleships.’”
Latest updated statistics from around the world: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Note: This now also contain the number of tests reformed in each country.
(Total and per Mill. inhabitants).
I guess you missed the point of my post… Don’t you find it difficult to praise the reaction of the country that MADE FREAKING DOCTORS SOUNDING THE ALARM DISAPPEAR???
Or is disappearing some doctors included within the category of:
No, it is not.
You did not answer when you understood the seriousness of the SARS Cov-2 virus and the Covid-19 condition that it causes?
About the same time as your hero and illustrious leader maybe? (Oh, he still hasn’t understood it?)
It’s irrelevant as I was not in a position to do anything about it.
But to answer your question, the first time I can remember being worried was when my airline cancelled all flights out of Manila and my flight was out of Cebu on 2-15. So sometime in early Feb.
Unlike you and so many others afflicted with TDS-16 (17, 18, 19, and 20), I don’t find value in trying to conduct a ‘woulda-coulda-shoulda’ critique in the middle of the ongoing crisis. There will be plenty of time for you and all the rest of your ilk to play Captain Hindsight later.
Surprise surprise. CDC know their figures are low, and say so.
The best figures won’t come out until this is over, and they still won’t be accurate. Not just here, many places. And this leaves out official lying about numbers.
I expect ten years from now we’ll have all this sorted. In the meantime it’s shining a flashlight around in the dark as we go whistling past the graveyard.
Outbreak at worker’s dormitories is particularly bad news.
Singapore did very well at the start of the outbreak, with minimal domestic transmission and efficient tracking of both imported and domestic cases.and no deaths for many weeks. (Only 6 deaths from Covid-19 are recorded to date) https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/singapore/
PS> Singapore had the equipment and trained personnel ready at the outset, with temperatures being checked at the airports and other entry points, when entering just about any public and private office building, work place and shopping centre.
They were also early in developing a reliable testing kit. To date 39000 tests has been performed,(Over 6.660 pers./Mill )
Trump very much promotes the anti-malaria medicin hydroxychloroquine which is still untested and according to doctors can have serious side effects which can harm patients. If you administer that drug on such a large scale, he bought 29 million pills, you must be very sure that it is entirely safe.
I wished that he stopped speaking on the press conferences about stuff like that of which he has no knowledge and should leave that field to the doctors and scientists. Who said that: Poking with a flashlight in the dark?
There is a post here re: a report from a website called Sermo, which purports to be a major medical polling website. The trouble is, when I do a search on Sermo, the reports on it are self-referential. I’m not finding medical organizations referring to Sermo. I’m not seeing a debate over the validity of Sermo, pro or con, on any medical questions.
An organization that refers to itself as being the largest of anything leaves a trail of reputation and expertise on the internet. Go to Sermo.com and you would expect to see a robust website covering a number of medical topics. But all you see is a single “paper” on COVID and hydrochloroquine. As if the entire website is just that and nothing more.
If anyone can steer me to more on Sermo I would like to see it’s bona fides.