Is that supposed to be a distraction from Trump having 'defunded' the present "CDC" group that were responsible for coordinating for any pandemic?...


Only in the USA?

Stay safe!
Martin

From everyone's favorite fact checker:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-cut-cdc-budget/

What's True

The Trump administration's proposed 2021 budget includes cuts to the CDC's activities related to chronic disease.

What's False

Congress hasn't approved the budget, so CDC funding in 2021 remains unclear.

Is that supposed to be a distraction from Trump having 'defunded' the present "CDC" group that were responsible for coordinating for any pandemic?...


Only in the USA?

Stay safe!
Martin

What's True

The Trump administration's proposed 2021 budget includes cuts to the CDC's activities related to chronic disease.

What's False

Congress hasn't approved the budget, so CDC funding in 2021 remains unclear.

Is that supposed to be a distraction from Trump having 'defunded' the present "CDC" group that were responsible for coordinating for any pandemic?...

“They claim pandemics only happen once every hundred years but what if that’s no longer true? We want to be early, ready for the next one, because clearly the Obama administration did not leave to this administration any kind of game plan for something like this.”

— Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), in an online discussion hosted by the Trump campaign, May 11, 2020

There is little continuity in the top levels of the U.S. government when one political party replaces the presidential administration led by another. The natural inclination is to ignore much of the work left behind by the previous folks — and to reinvent the wheel all over again.

But former Obama administration officials cried foul after McConnell’s comments. “We literally left them a 69-page Pandemic Playbook.... that they ignored,” tweeted Ron Klain, the former “Ebola czar” in the Obama administration.

What’s going on?

Most notably, the color-coded document lists dozens of pointed and detailed questions that top policymakers should be asking themselves if a novel virus suddenly emerges overseas. For instance:

Is there sufficient personal protective equipment for health-care workers who are providing medical care? If YES: What are the triggers to signal exhaustion of supplies? Are additional supplies available? If NO: Should the Strategic National Stockpile release PPE to states?

That also applies to the US States. WaPo - Which deaths count toward the covid-19 death toll? It depends on the state.

In Alabama, officials have ruled that one of every 10 people who died with covid-19 did not die of covid-19. Among those excluded from the numbers reported to the federal government were a bedbound patient with aspiration pneumonia in one lung and a person with a buildup of fluid and partial collapse of one lung.

Colorado, by contrast, has included some deaths where the disease caused by the novel coronavirus was deemed probable — based on symptoms and possible exposure — but not confirmed through a test.

I believe that it is quite common for family doctors to restrict themselves to bald, medical, facts when preparing the death certificate - to protect the feelings of grieving family members. Words like 'suicide', 'HIV', 'AIDS', 'Alzheimer's', and now 'coronavirus', may be avoided, even if relevant.

Are these the 'real' numbers?

And therein lies a major problem. Country 'A' is counting apples only while Country 'B' is including oranges and pineapples.

Without a standardized rule of what constitutes a fatality of Covid and what is an 'other' but also had Covid positivity there won't be an accurate tally. The WHO used to be looked to for that definition but with their reputation now tarnished by their acquiescence to the Chinese Government's wish to conceal numbers and details of the origin, it's a free for all.

In Alabama, officials have ruled that one of every 10 people who died with covid-19 did not die of covid-19. Among those excluded from the numbers reported to the federal government were a bedbound patient with aspiration pneumonia in one lung and a person with a buildup of fluid and partial collapse of one lung.

Colorado, by contrast, has included some deaths where the disease caused by the novel coronavirus was deemed probable — based on symptoms and possible exposure — but not confirmed through a test.

Are these the 'real' numbers?

The number of people who have died because of Covid-19 is nearly twice as high as the figure we hear announced every day...

... Looking back at death registrations filed then, the figure is higher: just over 36,000 death certificates mentioned Covid-19.

The measure preferred by statisticians, counting all deaths above what would be expected, was even higher: more than 50,000.

Each measure answers different questions...

A railway ticket office worker has died with coronavirus after being spat at by a man who claimed he had Covid-19.

Belly Mujinga, 47, ... when she was assaulted, along with a female colleague.

Within days of the incident, both women fell ill with the virus...

"The ventilators are working to their limits. Preliminary indications are that it was overloaded and caught fire, and that was the cause," a source at St Petersburg emergencies department told the Interfax news agency.

Alexei Kurinny, a member of the Russian parliament's health committee, said it was unlikely that a ventilator could have short-circuited or overloaded, and that fire safety was built into their design.

What numbers will add up for the consequences of misplaced authority narcissistic vanity?

A malaria drug widely touted by President Donald Trump for treating the new coronavirus showed no benefit in a large analysis of its use in U.S. veterans hospitals. There were more deaths among those given hydroxychloroquine versus standard care, researchers reported...

In a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists led by a team at Columbia University found that people infected with COVID-19 taking hydroxychloroquine do not fare better than those not receiving the drug...

... “Our guidance early on had suggested giving hydroxychloroquine to hospitalized patients, and we updated that guidance to remove that suggestion,”...

Very enlightening blog regarding infection risks and rates while re-opening society.....written by a Comparative Immunologist and Biology Professor..
https://www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them?fbclid=IwAR2QBG4WmZXimtGqu_efRGP4gzLmHOET4zxH10C-pTiMwmWCZhrT0IgESs4

Fox News chief White House correspondent John Roberts slammed ABC News chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl on Twitter after Karl posted a picture of Roberts without a mask prior to the start of President Trump's press conference.

In a tweet Monday afternoon following Karl's knock on Roberts, the Fox News correspondent noted that he put on a mask once the press conference began.

"Facts - I was quietly seated more than 6' away from the closest person (adhering to CDC social distancing guidelines)," tweeted Roberts. "When the press conference began, I put mask on. So - what, exactly is the basis for this petty effort at shaming????"

Our Testing is the BEST in the World, by FAR! Numbers are coming down in most parts of our Country, which wants to open and get going again. It is happening, safely!