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    If CDC Believes US Coronavirus Outbreak Is "Imminent", Why Have Only 400 People Been Tested?


    by Tyler Durden
    Mon, 02/24/2020 - 18:05

    As the CDC and the State Department continue their blame game over who was responsible for breaking quarantine during the evacuation of more than 300 American passengers aboard the 'Diamond Princess', a Rutgers professor is raising interesting questions about the federal government's response to the outbreak on Twitter.
    Richard Ebright, a professor of chemical biology, pointed out that only 426 Americans have been tested for the coronavirus since the outbreak began.





    That's compared with nearly 200,000 tests in China, and 28,000 tests in South Korea.


    Not question each of those countries has a more serious outbreak. But it seems like there have been enough scares across the US to warrant more tests, especially as authorities promised to trace contacts and isolate them.
    As of Monday, the CDC has reported 39 cases among people returning from Wuhan or the Diamond Princess, 12 additional 'travel related' cases, as well as two cases of human-to-human transmission involving family members of those infected abroad.



    So, why hasn't the US taken the initiative to test more cases? It's true that the CDC warned about a shortage of quality test kids last week. And on Monday, senior White House officials warned about the vulnerable supply chain for health-care products needed to combat the outbreak, as we noted earlier.
    Does this mean the federal government and the CDC have obscured the seriousness of a shortage of virus tests and other medical gear?
    Or is this another example of the federal agency dragging its feet for some reason probably related to bureaucratic politics.

    Richard H. Ebright @R_H_Ebright



    China has performed nearly 200,000 tests.

    South Korea has performed nearly 28,000 tests.

    Meanwhile, US--with most expensive, but most dysfunctional, healthcare system on planet--has performed just 414 tests and has little or no capacity to perform more (https://cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-in-us.html …)



    2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

    2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is a virus (more specifically, a coronavirus) identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China.
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    And he's not the only one raising questions.
    Andy Biotech @AndyBiotech

    #COVID19 Notably, CDC has only tested a mere 426 samples -> 14 domestic cases

    Meanwhile, South Korea has test >21,000 samples with another 11,000 to be tested -> 883 domestic cases https://twitter.com/AndyBiotech/status/1231988809274970113 …
    Andy Biotech @AndyBiotech


    #COVID19 CDC just updated that total number of confirmed cases in U.S. now 53

    - 14 domestic cases
    - 36 evacuated from #DiamondPrincess
    - 3 evacuated from #Wuhanhttps://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-in-us.html …

    It's especially alarming
    since CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield warned that the virus would likely 'gain a foothold' in the US in the not-too-distant future. He characterized it as an unavoidable eventuality.
    "The containment phase is really to give us more time," he said. This virus will become a community virus at some point in time, this year or next year," said Redfield. "We don't have any evidence that this coronavirus is really embedded in the community at this time, but with that said, we want to intensify our surveillance so that we're basing those conclusions based on data."

    If assuaging the public's fear was Redfield's aim in giving this interview, he definitely failed to accomplish his mission.
    Also, the finding begs the question: Why did the Trump Administration give away so many hundreds of thousands of face masks and other medical supplies like virus tests to China if the shortage here was so dire?



    Whatever the reason, this one salient fact is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore as all hell breaks loose in Italy and South Korea:


    Richard H. Ebright @R_H_Ebright



    Replying to @R_H_Ebright
    Incredibly, CDC is getting worse at testing with time, instead of getting better.

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    2:40 PM - Feb 24, 2020

    Especially with 8,000 people under a self-imposed quarantine in California, the shortage of kits is certainly alarming.

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    Trump wants billions to "potentially prepare to respond to an outbreak and allocate cash for vaccine development"


    Trump administration asks Congress for $2.5B to combat coronavirus


    " The White House submitted a request to Congress on Monday for $2.5 billion in supplemental spending to help combat the global coronavirus outbreak.

    The request included $1.25 billion in new money, with the rest coming from unspent funds. The measure would help the federal government, as well as state and local agencies, potentially prepare to respond to an outbreak and allocate cash for vaccine development, a senior administration official told Fox Business."

    more at link

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...at-coronavirus



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    Meanwhile, looney Trump said this today:


    Trump says coronavirus is 'under control,' stock market looks 'very good'

    " President Donald Trump said Monday that the spread of the deadly coronavirus was "under control" in the US and that the stock market looked "very good" to him - following a dismal day on Wall Street partly due to the illness.

    "The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA," Trump tweeted from India at around 5 p.m. New York time.

    "We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart."

    "Stock Market starting to look very good to me!"

    more at link

    https://nypost.com/2020/02/24/trump-...oks-very-good/


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    The CDC in a laughing stock. Maybe Joke Biden can take over and whip up some blueberry pancakes.
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