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Anonymous wrote:Trying to shut down in January or even February would have been ridiculous. There were less than 100 identified cases at the end of February.

The CDC screwed up the initial testing capability we needed

Contact tracing is a privacy/trust issue we are an individualistic society vs collective (most SE asian countries)

We have public health agencies at the state and federal level. Maybe you've never interacted with them or heard from them but they're there.

they aren't big enough or have experience with real contact tracing plus the CDC testing failure made it hard to contact trace

The reality is we were forced to go to shutdown because of the testing failure at the outset

Yes, they have experience with real contact tracing. They may be too small but that's not a permanent state.

Anonymous wrote:So when Trump says that Obama left the shelves empty...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/obama-ebola-coronavirus-trump-congress-tea-party-a9469186.html

“had Congress kept funding at the 2010 level through the end of the Obama administration, the stockpile would have benefited from $321m more than it ended up getting.”


https://www.propublica.org/article/us-emergency-medical-stockpile-funding-unprepared-coronavirus

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Anonymous wrote:This is what Trump supporters are defending

https://www.ft.com/content/97dc7de6-940b-11ea-abcd-371e24b679ed

And note, this is the Financial Times, one of the leading international publications. So when we talk about the reputation of the US abroad, this is what people are seeing.

Behind a paywall.

No, it isn't.

DP here. I cannot access it either. I get the subscription page.

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Anonymous wrote:This is what Trump supporters are defending

https://www.ft.com/content/97dc7de6-940b-11ea-abcd-371e24b679ed

And note, this is the Financial Times, one of the leading international publications. So when we talk about the reputation of the US abroad, this is what people are seeing.

Behind a paywall.

No, it isn't.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is what Trump supporters are defending

https://www.ft.com/content/97dc7de6-940b-11ea-abcd-371e24b679ed

And note, this is the Financial Times, one of the leading international publications. So when we talk about the reputation of the US abroad, this is what people are seeing.

Behind a paywall.

Anonymous wrote:This is what Trump supporters are defending

https://www.ft.com/content/97dc7de6-940b-11ea-abcd-371e24b679ed

And note, this is the Financial Times, one of the leading international publications. So when we talk about the reputation of the US abroad, this is what people are seeing.

Anonymous wrote:But sure, let's open up!

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/least-85-kids-across-u-s-have-developed-rare-mysterious-n1202186

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Anonymous wrote:CDC stats aren't that alarming. Plus, the COVID (as in only COVID) deaths include underlying issues. So if I died from a heart attack but had COVID, it's listed as covid. There's a COVID +pneumonia, too.

Did you see how VA was testing? lol
If you are tested three times, and your results are three positives, you're added to the dbase as three different stats.

This is blown out of proportion.

This is inaccurate or deflection. There's no reason to correct you because you don't care. You don't care about the worst pandemic our world has had in 100 years.

I am interested in what you think needs correction because I tend to agree with pp.
And, where do you get off making the statement in bold? Nothing pp stated leads me to believe that he/she doesn't care.

Because she's wrong. The "misclassification" of covid deaths is a talking point but it's wrong. Virginia hasn't changed how positive cases are counted, has changed how numbers of tests are counted.

When she's posting wrong information, I have a hard time believing that she cares about the pandemic. Only scoring points.

I don't know about VA, but I disagree with the bolded.....

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/15/health/us-coronavirus-deaths-trends-wednesday/index.html
....Deaths will include those that are "probable" but didn't have a test. These could be anything respiratory related. Regular flu? Yep, Covid-19. Asthma? Yep. Covid-19
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/85925
And, we have patients who have died WITH the virus but not BECAUSE of the virus. It is difficult to discern which it is.

And, hospitals get a higher reimbursement for COVID-19 related deaths.

One way to answer the question of under versus over counting is by looking at excess mortality. That is how many more deaths are happened than were happening last year (or averaging over the last several years) at this time. The data shows that deaths are up above what is being attributed as COVID deaths across the board. This is a crude metric because it tells you that more people have died this year but not why. But I think it does answer the question - are we over counting Coronavirus deaths? The answer is no.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/05/us/coronavirus-death-toll-us.html

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Anonymous wrote:CDC stats aren't that alarming. Plus, the COVID (as in only COVID) deaths include underlying issues. So if I died from a heart attack but had COVID, it's listed as covid. There's a COVID +pneumonia, too.

Did you see how VA was testing? lol
If you are tested three times, and your results are three positives, you're added to the dbase as three different stats.

This is blown out of proportion.

This is inaccurate or deflection. There's no reason to correct you because you don't care. You don't care about the worst pandemic our world has had in 100 years.

I am interested in what you think needs correction because I tend to agree with pp.
And, where do you get off making the statement in bold? Nothing pp stated leads me to believe that he/she doesn't care.

Because she's wrong. The "misclassification" of covid deaths is a talking point but it's wrong. Virginia hasn't changed how positive cases are counted, has changed how numbers of tests are counted.

When she's posting wrong information, I have a hard time believing that she cares about the pandemic. Only scoring points.

I don't know about VA, but I disagree with the bolded.....

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/15/health/us-coronavirus-deaths-trends-wednesday/index.html
....Deaths will include those that are "probable" but didn't have a test. These could be anything respiratory related. Regular flu? Yep, Covid-19. Asthma? Yep. Covid-19
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/85925
And, we have patients who have died WITH the virus but not BECAUSE of the virus. It is difficult to discern which it is.

And, hospitals get a higher reimbursement for COVID-19 related deaths.

Anonymous wrote:“Kayleigh McEnany gave away the game today. She told reporters that the White House is operating safely, *because it has testing and tracing.* But Trump won't create the robust federal testing regime that would allow the rest of us to have that.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/08/single-kayleigh-mcenany-quote-gives-away-game/#click=https://t.co/OdCaRPq8XD