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Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. The CDC has seemed relatively dysfunctional in these outbreaks to me before. Dur
by 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 agoExcept 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.