OMG, nice try Marco. But a first step would have been not gutting the CDC, or not ignoring the virus for two months, or having testing kits available, or not saying it was a hoax, or not having Don Jr. saying it was a hoax and the VP not denouncing it. pic.twitter.com/ozw6fiGgXb
New CDC guidance - anyone can be tested for #COVID19. As I reported - unless private commercial labs truly step up to help run these 2,500 kits in a fairly unprecedented way, we will have a hard time actually testing wide swaths of the U.S. population immediately. twitter.com/katierogers/st…
In 2003 Joe Biden proposed the RAVE Act
It slapped event organizers with a $250k fine for knowingly throwing parties that allowed for illicit drug use
This discouraged venues from providing harm reduction, free test kits/water, resulting in many preventable deaths in dance music
Hospitals across the US are unprepared to identify and treat coronavirus-a staff physician at NY Pres. Hospital says he still does not have access to test kits. #Covid_19 Reminder that Trump gutted the CDC and federal test kits have failed to work. cnbc.com/amp/2020/03/02…
Senior admin official acknowledged Trump administration is feeling a major sense of urgency to distribute testing kits for the Coronavirus, amid bipartisan criticism that the kits are being deployed too slowly. “It’s a flashpoint right now,” the official said.
This is how #COVID19 explodes:
- individuals get infected in the community;
- turn up in a hospital w/pneumonia;
- USA had no test kits so no COVID diagnosis reached for days;
- hospital workers exposed, possibly infected.
Same in Seattle.
nytimes.com/2020/03/03/nyr…