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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Daily podcast has a very good episode today about how and why the US is woefully behind on taking care of our population during this Pandemic. Have a listen to gain some facts.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736?i=1000468085929[/quote]

Can you summarize any points for those of us that can’t listen at work?[/quote]

Sure...

In 2018 during the 100th anniversary of the Spanish Flu, gatherings were held of high levels in Atlanta to discuss what has been learned about pandemics since. One of the officials at this group warns of the #1 health security concern in our world today: the threat of pandemic flu. She fears that our country is nowhere near prepared to deal with it should it arise. Days later a top Trump official shut down the global health security unit that this woman at the Atlanta conference worked for.

Jan 3, 2020, the head of Health and Human Services gets word that the novel Coronavirus has been found and it spreading in China. He takes is very serious and says this is bad. Trump agrees to stop flights from China to buy us some time to prep our nation, but many flights are still coming in from other countries where Coronavirus has also been detected.

Our government wasn’t prepared to use that time because of testing. Chinese made sequence of virus available and WHO developed a test. CDC didn’t want to use theirs and wanted to create their own. Didn’t do that until beginning of Feb. and sent them to public health labs around country. Labs had to check test first and immediately realized the tests were not accurate and didn’t work. CDC tells all labs around country to send a tests to Atlanta, taking more time.

Meanwhile, nobody is getting tested and weeks are going by with people spreading it in the community.  Airports aren’t screening US entry except for Chinese citizens, but it’s spreading heavily in other countries.

A doctor, Dr Chu, and researcher in Washington see a solution come out of her own research and create an effective Coronavirus test very quickly that is able to test thousands immediately. They can’t use it without FDA and CDC approval. They ask for approval during the first week of Feb. Bureaucratic red tape gets in way. Weeks go by and the CDC and FDA don’t reply. It’s now the last week of Feb. They’re sitting on many positive Coronavirus tests and begin to question their ethical responsibility. They go against the rules and inform their local public health dept. in Washington. Public Health goes out and notifies the positive cases, but Dr Chu realizes that these cases were from many many weeks ago...a lot of spreading.

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