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What is the CDC actually doing? Presumably they've deployed a team to Santa Clara to deploy test kits, review hospital admissions and help construct isolation u

What is the CDC actually doing? Presumably they've deployed a team to Santa Clara to deploy test kits, review hospital admissions and help construct isolation units? Or hopefully soon? Is there a site tracking the response of CDC and public health departments to this emerging pandemic?

marcinzm 7y ago
According to this reddit post the CDC won't even test you unless you're so sick that you need hospitalization even if you were in a country with an outbreak AND have flu symptoms: https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/fayko1/my_covid19_story_brooklyn/ https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/fayko1/my_covid19_stor... So it seems what the CDC is doing is trying to minimize the number of confirmed cases to make things look better.
- kevin_thibedeau 7y ago
  China: Suppress the disclosure of damaging facts. USA: Suppress the creation of damaging facts.
  - brewdad 7y ago
    USA: Lower interest rates and the corporate tax rates to save the stock market. Pretend coronavirus is fake news.
  - blackrock 7y ago
    USA: Promote Alternative Facts
- deleted 7y ago
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- electriclove 7y ago
  Meanwhile, Hong Kong is able to test dogs (https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-dog-isolated-test-no-sign-animals-can-be-infected-2020-2 https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-dog-isolated-tes...) and Singapore is able to provide detailed updates to the public (https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/four-more-cases-discharged-three-new-cases-of-covid-19-infection-confirmed https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/four-more-cas...)
- tuna-piano 7y ago
  Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. The CDC has seemed relatively dysfunctional in these outbreaks to me before. During Ebola, there were only a few concurrent (maybe just 1) cases of Ebola in the country. At the same time as the CDC was having news conferences and the CDC experts were presumably in meetings, the handful of nurses doing the actual care for one of the only ebola patients in the country were left completely alone by the CDC: "After days of asking, Pham said, the nurses were given hazmat suits. She said all the decisions to upgrade the protective gear and precautions were made by the nurses “on the fly.” Sadly, one of the nurses caught Ebola. http://res.dallasnews.com/interactives/nina-pham/ http://res.dallasnews.com/interactives/nina-pham/
  - addicted 7y ago
    Except the government learned from the Ebola outbreak, improved its response and setup infrastructure to handle future such scenarios based on their learning. The current administration dismantled that entire infrastructure. So while it may not have been malice, there is a very straight line to be drawn from the actions of a couple of years ago and the inept handling of the situation today.
ntsplnkv2 7y ago
Nothing. The POTUS just said this was a "democratic hoax." After appointing someone to deal with it. It's beyond politics at this point. Trump can't run the country, and because of his policies, our response is limited and ineffective.
- WillPostForFood 7y ago
  You have a citation for that quotation? Looks fake.
  - ntsplnkv2 7y ago
    https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/28/trump-says-the-coronavirus-is-the-democrats-new-hoax.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/28/trump-says-the-coronavirus-i...
    - nsxwolf 7y ago
      The quote they use is so decontextualized I had to go find another source to figure out what he actually said. It's pretty clear he's saying the Democrats' criticisms of his administrations response to coronavirus is "the new hoax", not the virus threat itself. I had to watch the actual rally where he said the words. Article after article uses the decontextualized "the new hoax", or simply "hoax", and most even editorialize that he's claiming there's no threat from the virus. This sort of thing is what gives Trump credibility when he accuses the media of "fake news".
      - fzeroracer 7y ago
        He's literally saying that the Democrats are politicizing it and that it's a hoax. The moment that the numbers take a turn for a worse (and they will, because we are not at all prepared for this and are doing nothing to prepare) he'll call them fake, made up and continue down the line of a democratic hoax. He's doing the exact same thing he did during Hurricane Maria and I would hope that people would learn quickly from the way he's behaved in the past.

marcinzm 7y ago

According to this reddit post the CDC won't even test you unless you're so sick that you need hospitalization even if you were in a country with an outbreak AND have flu symptoms: https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/fayko1/my_covid19_story_brooklyn/ https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/fayko1/my_covid19_stor... So it seems what the CDC is doing is trying to minimize the number of confirmed cases to make things look better.

kevin_thibedeau 7y ago
China: Suppress the disclosure of damaging facts. USA: Suppress the creation of damaging facts.
- brewdad 7y ago
  USA: Lower interest rates and the corporate tax rates to save the stock market. Pretend coronavirus is fake news.
- blackrock 7y ago
  USA: Promote Alternative Facts
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electriclove 7y ago
Meanwhile, Hong Kong is able to test dogs (https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-dog-isolated-test-no-sign-animals-can-be-infected-2020-2 https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-dog-isolated-tes...) and Singapore is able to provide detailed updates to the public (https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/four-more-cases-discharged-three-new-cases-of-covid-19-infection-confirmed https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/four-more-cas...)
tuna-piano 7y ago
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. The CDC has seemed relatively dysfunctional in these outbreaks to me before. During Ebola, there were only a few concurrent (maybe just 1) cases of Ebola in the country. At the same time as the CDC was having news conferences and the CDC experts were presumably in meetings, the handful of nurses doing the actual care for one of the only ebola patients in the country were left completely alone by the CDC: "After days of asking, Pham said, the nurses were given hazmat suits. She said all the decisions to upgrade the protective gear and precautions were made by the nurses “on the fly.” Sadly, one of the nurses caught Ebola. http://res.dallasnews.com/interactives/nina-pham/ http://res.dallasnews.com/interactives/nina-pham/
- addicted 7y ago
  Except the government learned from the Ebola outbreak, improved its response and setup infrastructure to handle future such scenarios based on their learning. The current administration dismantled that entire infrastructure. So while it may not have been malice, there is a very straight line to be drawn from the actions of a couple of years ago and the inept handling of the situation today.

ntsplnkv2 7y ago

Nothing. The POTUS just said this was a "democratic hoax." After appointing someone to deal with it. It's beyond politics at this point. Trump can't run the country, and because of his policies, our response is limited and ineffective.

WillPostForFood 7y ago
You have a citation for that quotation? Looks fake.
- ntsplnkv2 7y ago
  https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/28/trump-says-the-coronavirus-is-the-democrats-new-hoax.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/28/trump-says-the-coronavirus-i...
  - nsxwolf 7y ago
    The quote they use is so decontextualized I had to go find another source to figure out what he actually said. It's pretty clear he's saying the Democrats' criticisms of his administrations response to coronavirus is "the new hoax", not the virus threat itself. I had to watch the actual rally where he said the words. Article after article uses the decontextualized "the new hoax", or simply "hoax", and most even editorialize that he's claiming there's no threat from the virus. This sort of thing is what gives Trump credibility when he accuses the media of "fake news".
    - fzeroracer 7y ago
      He's literally saying that the Democrats are politicizing it and that it's a hoax. The moment that the numbers take a turn for a worse (and they will, because we are not at all prepared for this and are doing nothing to prepare) he'll call them fake, made up and continue down the line of a democratic hoax. He's doing the exact same thing he did during Hurricane Maria and I would hope that people would learn quickly from the way he's behaved in the past.