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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The health care workers on the front lines of this are like the fire fighters rushing into the WTC on 9/11.  It’s unfathomable how our government is so ill prepared to equip them with what they need.  The slowness is inexcusable.  What they have gotten is largely the result of donations. [/quote]

This.
RN who used to work in hospital and worry for my previous coworkers[/quote]

Other than the VA hospitals does our government run hospitals in this country?  Is it not the responsibilities of the hospitals to have supplies for their workers?

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We are in a global pandemic. This is a national security situation without any exaggeration. There should be federal and state stockpiles and protocols and these should have been activated months ago.

To the OP and health care workers: thank you for putting your lives on the line.[/quote]

So I get that the trump administration was downplaying this from the beginning- but were states and hospitals not paying attention at all to what was going on the last few months?  Cuomo talks a good talk now but why wasn’t he getting supplies for NY back in January?  Lots of blame to go around.[/quote]

They were. There simply weren’t enough supplies to go around and there is an issue of some hospitals having an abundance and some having a shortage and it’s impossible for hospitals to take care of that inequity on a national level. Not that all hospitals had a great response but hospitals were indeed trying.

As far as Cuomo goes, he probably assumed that the US government and the CDC could respond to health crises the way they had in the past: competently. Everybody was shocked when the CDC dropped the ball on testing and when the US government had stopped maintaining the national reserve of PPE. But he was aware of the dangers the virus could cause back in January and was making an effort to get supplies and work on coordination. [/quote]

Anyone who assumed Trump and this CDC would handle this competently is a fool.[/quote]

Why the CDC? The CDC has a good track record. How did you know they would handle it incompetently? The reason they didn’t was a series of unfortunate events, not general incompetence, so I don’t know how somebody could have predicted that.

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NYT had a good article about the extreme level of regulation in the US hindered the testing and the head of the CDC followed the regulations to a "T" slowing startup of testing.[/quote]

Of course an article like that would be in the NYT. You all need to balance your news sources. [/quote]

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