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Originally Posted by detbuch
More of the same.
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Absolutely more US coronavirus deaths:
7 weeks ago: 0 deaths
6 weeks ago: 17 deaths
5 weeks ago: 49 deaths
4 weeks ago: 249 deaths
3 weeks ago: 1,588 deaths
2 weeks ago: 7,152 deaths
1 week ago: 18,758 deaths
As of yesterday: 36,997 deaths
A key task for analysts during disease outbreaks is to determine whether foreign officials are trying to minimize the effects of an outbreak or take steps to hide a public health crisis, according to current and former officials familiar with the process.
At the State Department, personnel had been nervously tracking early reports about the virus. One official noted that it was discussed at a meeting in the third week of January, around the time that cable traffic showed that
U.S. diplomats in Wuhan were being brought home on chartered planes — a sign that the public health risk was significant. A colleague at the White House mentioned how concerned he was about the transmissibility of the virus.
“In January, there was obviously a lot of chatter,” the official said.
The State Department announced Feb. 7 that it had “facilitated the transportation of nearly 17.8 tons of donated medical supplies to the Chinese people” to fight against Covid-19.
The same day, the WHO director general said, “There is limited stock of (personal protective equipment) and we need to make sure we get it to the people who need it most in the places that need it most,” citing health care workers and caretakers.
The rest of the world started buying PPE, Ventilators, etc.
What procedures did he not follow
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-res...ementation.pdf
After SARS, MERS, AIDS and Ebola it became obvious that flu was not the only pandemic danger.
The NSC in response developed this document, the Trump* administration eliminated the portion of the NSC that administered it. Just another layer of unnecessary bureaucracy that was removed.
https://assets.documentcloud.org/doc...c-Playbook.pdf