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You don’t want a central authority doing this nationwide. You want a central authority synthesizing results and setting minimum practices for states to adopt.
by cududa 2y ago
You don’t want a central authority doing this nationwide. You want a central authority synthesizing results and setting minimum practices for states to adopt.
But generally, each state already has bodies that are inspecting cows and chickens daily, with FDA representatives present. They’re experts at testing regularly to catch normal flu etc, and the data is shared. This happens and they’re still doing the same exact same thing - which we want.
In these cases, there’s tons and tons of cooperation. Some folks are investigating cows independently. Some birds. All this research is shared federally and with all states.
Then, CDC, department of agriculture, etc, all are activating their protocols to deal with their various parts of this.
We actually have plans for this and haven been executing decently well.
It’s called a Swiss cheese filter. If you cut one slice of cheese, there’s holes for things to slip through. Stack a bunch of slices on top, less chance of something to get through a hole.
You want redundancy.
Source: I worked on all sorts of COVID related data, and danced around CDC federal systems and state/ other partner integration API’s.
In regards to testing and investigation, we want multiple layers