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Trump Vows to Keep Holding Rallies, Despite CPAC Attendee’s Coro
navirus Case
By: Surly1 Date: March 8, 2020, 7:23 am
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Who says there's no good news?
Trump Vows to Keep Holding Rallies, Despite CPAC Attendee’s
Coronavirus Case
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Trump’s projected confidence risks the health of his most
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data-word-count="97">President Trump has been <a
href="
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/>downplaying</a> the threat of the coronavirus, including <a
href="
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/>the CDC on Friday</a> when he insisted he was not worried abou
t
the risk the virus could pose at his political rallies or any
other large public gatherings. He then reaffirmed that on
Saturday — after the American Conservative Union (ACU)
announced that an attendee of the organization’s recent
CPAC event had tested positive for COVID-19. President Trump,
Vice-President Pence, and numerous other senior Trump
administration officials and Trump-orbiting celebrities went to
the multi-day event, which was attended by thousands of
conservatives from around the country.</p> <p
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tances/ck7ig5csa00193f67dr7vtz1c@published"
data-word-count="78">In response to the report, a White House
statement noted they were aware of the case, but that “at
this time there is no indication that either President Trump or
Vice-President Pence met with or were in close proximity to the
attendee.” A CPAC statement released Saturday night
concurred, explaining that the attendee was exposed to the virus
prior to attending the event, did not interact with Trump or
Pence, and never even went to the event’s main hall.
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Resort & Convention Center in Maryland just outside of
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events during the outbreak or push ahead and risk the health of
his supporters, even if that risk is low. At a time when the
president is already trying to project confidence about the U.S.
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administration, Trump could be damned either way. Or maybe he
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“He’s Definitely Melting Down Over This”
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“He’s Definitely Melting Down Over This”
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Trump, Germaphobe in Chief, Struggles to Control the Covid-19
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Publicly, he sees it as yet another (“Fake News”) media war;
privately, he worries about virus-carrying journalists on Air
Force One. But cancel his rallies? “I’m not going to do it,” he
says.
Ever since the coronavirus exploded outside of China at the end
of January, Donald Trump has treated the public health crisis as
a media war that he could win with the right messaging. But with
cases now documented in 34 states and markets plunging,
Republicans close to Trump fear his rosy assessments are
fundamentally detached from reality in ways that will make the
epidemic worse. “He is trying to control the narrative and he
can’t,” a former West Wing official told me.
The problem is that the crisis fits into his preexisting and
deeply held worldview—that the media is always searching for a
story to bring him down. Covid-19 is merely the latest instance,
and he’s reacting in familiar ways. “So much FAKE NEWS!” Trump
tweeted this morning. “He wants Justice to open investigations
of the media for market manipulation,” a source close to the
White House told me. Trump is also frustrated with his West Wing
for not getting a handle on the news cycle. “He’s very
frustrated he doesn’t have a good team around him,” a former
White House official said. On Friday he forced out acting chief
of staff Mick Mulvaney and replaced him with former House
Freedom Caucus chair Mark Meadows. Trump thought the virus was
“getting beyond Mick,” a person briefed on the internal
discussions said. Trump has also complained that economic
adviser Larry Kudlow is not doing enough to calm jittery
markets. Last week Kudlow refused Trump’s request that Kudlow
hold an on-camera press briefing, sources said. “Larry didn’t
want to have to take questions about coronavirus,” a person
close to Kudlow told me. “Larry’s not a doctor. How can he
answer questions about something he doesn’t know?”
Trump found a willing surrogate in Kellyanne Conway, but
Conway’s dubious claim on Friday that the virus “is being
contained” only made the P.R. situation worse.
Trump’s efforts to take control of the story himself have so far
failed. A source said Trump was pleased with ratings for the Fox
News town hall last Thursday, but he was furious with how he
looked on television. “Trump said afterwards that the lighting
was bad,” a source briefed on the conversation said. “He said,
‘We need Bill Shine back in here. Bill would never allow this.’”
Trump’s press conference on Friday at the CDC was a Trumpian
classic, heavy on braggadocio and almost entirely lacking a
sense of the seriousness of the crisis. “I like this stuff. I
really get it,” Trump told reporters, his face partly hidden
under a red “Keep America Great” hat. “People are surprised that
I understand it. Every one of these doctors say, ‘How do you
know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe
I should’ve done that instead of running for president.” At
another point Trump compared the situation to the Ukraine
shakedown. “The [coronavirus] tests are all perfect. Like the
letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect,” he said.
By now many of the president’s advisers are numb to this kind of
performance. “There’s very little that fazes anyone now,” a
former official said. But one person who spoke to the president
over the weekend saw the press conference as an ominous sign.
“He’s just now waking up to the fact that this is bad, and he
doesn’t know how to respond.”
As Trump pushes a nothing-to-see-here message in public, sources
said he’s privately terrified about getting the virus. “Donald
is a famous germaphobe. He hates it if someone is eating nachos
and dips a chip back in after taking a bite. He calls them
‘double dippers,’” a prominent Republican said. Former Trump
aide Sam Nunberg recalled Trump’s response to the last major
outbreak in 2014. “When I worked for Trump, he was obsessed with
Ebola,” Nunberg told me. (One Mar-a-Lago guest disputed this and
said Trump was handshaking with gusto this past weekend. “He was
acting like the opposite of a germaphobe,” the source said.)
Stories about Trump’s coronavirus fears have spread through the
White House. Last week Trump told aides he’s afraid journalists
will try to purposefully contract coronavirus to give it to him
on Air Force One, a person close to the administration told me.
The source also said Trump has asked the Secret Service to set
up a screening program and bar anyone who has a cough from the
White House grounds. “He’s definitely melting down over this,”
the source said.
But thus far Trump’s private concerns haven’t affected his
public response. Pressure from the public health community is
mounting on Trump to cancel his mass rallies, but Trump is
pushing back. “He is going to resist until the very last
minute,” a former West Wing official said. “He may take
suggestions to stop shaking hands, but in terms of shutting
stuff down, his position is: ‘No, I’m not going to do it.’”
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
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No data, no problem?
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Dept. of Criminal Negligence: As South Korea tests 20,000 people
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Yesterday, the United States conducted a grand total of eight
coronavirus tests. No data, no problem?
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The reason U.S. COVID-19 numbers aren't higher? Not enough tests
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problems with the reagent.
Some coronavirus testing kits sent around the world are not
working properly
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America’s shamefully slow coronavirus testing threatens all of
us
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EDT</time></div> <figure><span></span> <p>In late
February, Julie Eaker, a physician assistant and supervisor at a
small, rural, tribal community health clinic in Siskiyou County,
California, had a patient who had a possible exposure to
Covid-19. It wasn’t direct: They had been exposed to a
person, and that person had been in direct contact with a
confirmed Covid-19 case. Eaker’s patient was developing an
upper respiratory infection too, and she wanted to ease their
peace of mind — and protect the community — by
getting them tested for Covid-19.</p> <p>To this day, the
patient still hasn’t been tested for the illness. And
it’s not because Eaker didn’t try. The story she
describes is Kafkaesque.</p> <p>First, Eaker called her
local health department and was told her patient didn’t
qualify for testing since they hadn’t traveled to China,
per the guidelines <a
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After the CDC relaxed its testing criteria, the patient was
still sick, so Eaker called again. “I didn’t receive
a phone call back,” she says.</p> <p>The patient
thought they had pneumonia and asked to be tested for peace of
mind. Finally, last week, after Eaker ordered some test kits
herself from a private lab, she got a call back. “The
health department told me I was not allowed to use those test
kits — that I ordered — without their
permission!”</p> <p>Eaker was horrified. So she called
the CDC to confirm if the local health department was correct.
“I did not get through,” she says. “I spent
hours and hours and hours on hold. … So I thought I would
just call the White House and talk to Vice President Pence, who
is in charge of the coronavirus task
force.“</p> <p>She didn’t get Pence, but a White
House switchboard operator told her to call the
CDC.</p> <p>“Somebody has got to help us,” she
says, exasperated. “We’re out here on the front
lines trying to take care of
people.”</p> <p>Meanwhile, the commercial tests the
clinic ordered still haven’t arrived. And Eaker wonders if
Covid-19 has been spreading in her community of 3,000 people.
Siskiyou County might not have big sports arenas or universities
where disease can infect masses. But it has multigenerational
family homes where viruses can quickly infect a whole family,
and a health clinic that’s already at capacity due to the
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this</div> </div> </div> </div> <p>Accurate
testing is critical to stopping an outbreak: When one person
gets a confirmed diagnosis, they can be put in isolation where
they won’t spread the disease further. Then their contacts
can be identified and put into quarantine so they don’t
spread the virus if they’ve become infected, too.
That’s particularly important for a virus like this one,
which seems able to spread before people show symptoms, or when
their symptoms are mild.</p> <p>Ever since the first case of
Covid-19 was detected in the US on January 20, the
government’s blunders in creating and distributing
diagnostic testing have greatly handicapped our response to the
growing pandemic. Eaker’s story is not unique: Reports
suggest providers everywhere are struggling to help their
patients, while receiving frustrating guidance from
authorities.</p> <p>Dr. Anthony Fauci, the federal
government’s top infectious disease scientist, called the
testing situation a “failing” at a congressional
hearing on Thursday.</p> <p>“The idea of anybody
getting it easily the way people in other countries are doing it
— we’re not set up for that,” he <a
href="
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/>“Do I think we should be? Yes. But we’re not.
“</p> <p>While the testing situation in America is
getting better — private industry has stepped up to fill
in the slow rollout of tests from the CDC, and the <a
href="
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/>Clinic announced</a> it has developed a new rapid test that
gives results in eight hours, rather than taking days —
problems remain. The number of tests that can be performed per
day is still limited and varies by testing facility. Part of
that is due to a shortage of key chemicals <a
href="
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/>to run the tests</a>. It’s becoming increasingly clear
that too-stringent testing guidelines early in the outbreak
stymied researchers in knowing if Covid-19 was spreading in the
US.</p> <p>“There was clear lack of foresight,”
Nathan Grubaugh, an epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public
Health, says. “We were very slow to roll out testing
capacity to individual places — wherever that came from,
it was a very bad strategy.”</p> <h3>How many have
been tested, how many tests are there, and how many can be
tested</h3> <p>Part of the confusion here is that there are
different figures floating around for the number of tests that
have been done. As private labs take up the slack from public
health facilities, there’s no centralized database of
numbers.</p> <p>“I think that we could have probably
controlled this, if we had effective testing,” Angela
Rasmussen, a Columbia University virologist, says.</p> <p>We
haven’t. In an <a
href="
HTML https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-many-americans-have-been-tested-coronavirus/607597/"><strong>investigation<br
/>led by the Atlantic</strong></a>, a research team reported tha
t
a <a
href="
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/>more than 7,000</a> Covid-19 tests were performed as of March
11
— putting the US far behind other developed countries.
(The Atlantic’s investigation is in partnership with
independent researchers, and US testing counts are now being <a
href="
HTML https://twitter.com/covid19tracking">updated
daily</a> by
the Covid Tracking Project.)</p> <p>South Korea, for
example, <a
href="
HTML https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-04/south-korea-tests-hundreds-of-thousands-to-fight-virus-outbreak">has<br
/>tested more than 140,000 people</a> and has even set up
drive-though testing stations for <a
href="
HTML https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/02/asia/coronavirus-drive-through-south-korea-hnk-intl/index.html">people<br
/>to access</a>. So far, the Trump administration’s promis
es
to increase testing have fallen
flat.</p> <figure><span><picture
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/>/></picture></span><span><cite>Christina
Animashaun/Vox</cite></span></figure> <p>Test kits have been
in short supply — though that’s
changing.</p> <p>The numbers here are a bit confusing, too.
As of March 7, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen
Hahn <a
href="
HTML https://www.fda.gov/news-events/speeches-fda-officials/coronavirus-covid-19-update-white-house-press-briefing-fda-commissioner-stephen-m-hahn-md-03072020">said</a><br
/>the CDC has sent out enough test kits to test 75,000 people (f
ar
fewer than the million <a
href="
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/health/coronavirus-tests-fda.html">promised</a><br
/>by the Trump administration). But those are just the tests sen
t
to public health labs. An additional 1.1 million tests (<a
href="
HTML https://www.fda.gov/news-events/speeches-fda-officials/coronavirus-covid-19-update-white-house-press-briefing-fda-commissioner-stephen-m-hahn-md-03072020">produced<br
/>by private industry</a>) have been sent out to non-public
commercial and academic labs, according to Hahn. In all, he
estimated 850,000 Americans are able to be
tested.</p> <p>But capacity to test is still lagging. Part
of that is due to a shortage of key chemicals <a
href="
HTML https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/10/shortage-crucial-chemicals-us-coronavirus-testing/">needed<br
/>to run the tests</a>. Currently, according to the American
Enterprise Institute, 16,030 Covid-19 tests can be processed in
the US a day, up from 7,840 a few days <a
href="
HTML https://twitter.com/COVID2019tests/status/1237064518922047488">ago</a>.<br
/>(South Korea has been able to run 10,000 tests per day <a
href="
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-delays.html">since</a><br
/>February.)</p> <p>Some labs have much higher capacity than
others. Even the corporate diagnostic companies like Quest and
LabCorp only have the capacity to run 1,000 and 1,500 tests a
day, respectively. Your ability to get tested may depend on
where you live, the lab your physician uses, and the judgment of
your doctor.</p> <h3>The timeline of the testing fiasco
shows many sources of error</h3> <p>There’s no one
reason the testing effort has been so slow. There seem to be
bureaucratic, scientific, and economic drivers for the
debacle.</p> <p>Here’s where the trouble started. The
CDC <a
href="
HTML https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p0206-coronavirus-diagnostic-test-kits.html">started</a><br
/>sending out test kits to laboratories the first week of
February, a month after China announced the outbreak. But the
health agency quickly encountered a problem.</p> <p>Some
labs reported to the CDC <a
href="
HTML https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/13/health/us-coronavirus-test-kits/index.html">that<br
/>some of the test kits were</a> delivering inconclusive results
during verification. It’s believed that one of the
chemicals used to conduct the test was not working properly and
needed to be
remanufactured.</p> <aside> <div> <p>Related</p>
;<h4><a
data-analytics-link="readmore"
href="
HTML https://www.vox.com/2020/3/10/21171481/coronavirus-us-cases-quarantine-cancellation">How<br
/>canceled events and self-quarantines save lives, in one
chart</a></h4> </div> </aside> <p>“I’m
very puzzled by what’s happened. The CDC did a really good
job with H1N1 and Zika in exactly this thing: sending out huge
quantities of test kits very rapidly to every state in the US
and more than 100 countries around the world,” Tom
Frieden, who led the CDC under President Barack Obama, told Vox.
“The world came to rely on the CDC.”</p> <p>The
tests are conducted <a
href="
HTML https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/lab/guidelines-clinical-specimens.html">via<br
/>mouth or throat swabs</a>, through the testing of mucus that h
as
been coughed up or fluid from a patient’s trachea.
They’re designed to identify the virus’s specific
genetic signature, and results have to be shipped to labs, where
they take a day to process.</p> <p>Also, at first, the
testing was bottlenecked. Most states had to send their samples
to the CDC until March 2, and so, to the frustration of state
health officials, precious time was lost shipping materials to
Atlanta in those critical first few weeks. What’s more,
each test required lengthy phone calls with the CDC, Rachel
Levine, who leads the Pennsylvania health department, told
Vox.</p> <p>As of February 25, <a
href="
HTML http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/02/cdc-warns-us-covid-19-spread-labs-frustrated-over-lack-tests">only</a><br
/>12 labs across the country — in just five states —
had the ability to test. The first case of Covid-19 <a
href="
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-delays.html">detected</a><br
/>in the US originally did not meet the criteria for testing, as
the New York Times explains. Perhaps that had deadly
consequences: The outbreak in Washington state appears to be
part of a transmission chain related to that first discovered
case. When the CDC refused testing for that case, the Seattle
Flu Study, a research group, performed one <a
href="
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-delays.html">on<br
/>its own</a>.</p> <p>Now that states can perform their own
tests, they are able to turn them around in a matter of hours.
“It’s a much more efficient mechanism,” Levine
said, “but it took a long time for that to
happen.”</p> <p>In Seattle, currently the US city with
the most Covid-19 cases, local researchers were so exasperated
by the CDC’s initial faulty test that they came up with
their own, as Stat’s Helen Branswell <a
href="
HTML https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/03/washington-state-risks-seeing-explosion-in-coronavirus-without-dramatic-action-new-analysis-says/">reported</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Frustrated<br
/>by the lack of testing resulting from the problem with the
CDC-developed kit, the Seattle Flu Study began using an in-house
developed test to look for Covid-19 in samples from people who
had flu-like symptoms but who had tested negative for
flu.</p> </blockquote> <p>That testing was vital for
Washington, as it led to more clues about how the disease was
spreading there. Genetic detective work from Washington suggests
the virus has been circulating there for <a
href="
HTML https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/03/washington-state-risks-seeing-explosion-in-coronavirus-without-dramatic-action-new-analysis-says/">at<br
/>least six weeks</a>. Modeling suggests there could be 1,110 <a
href="
HTML https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1237395568478961665">cases</a><br
/>of Covid-19 in the Seattle area.</p> <p>So there’s
been human error. But it’s also important to know that the
work of setting up testing for a new virus can be difficult.
Laurie Garrett, the science journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize
for her reporting on the 1995 Ebola outbreak, said China’s
most-used tests have had false negatives nearly half the
time.</p> <p>“Everybody is having trouble with the
sensitivity/specificity issues” with the coronavirus,
Garrett said. But the slow start to testing in America,
compounded by the problematic test kits that were first sent out
into the field, has set back the US
response.</p> <p>“I have no criticisms for the
scientists at the CDC who developed the test because sometimes
tests just don’t work,” Rasmussen says. But she does
mention it’s problematic that the CDC has removed data
about the number of people tested in the United States from its
website, saying it didn’t want there to <a
href="
HTML https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-many-americans-have-been-tested-coronavirus/607597/">be<br
/>discrepancies with state testing numbers</a>. “In my vie
w,
the biggest scandal is that sort of
response.”</p> <h3>Now that we have a functional test,
it’s still not reaching enough people</h3> <p>Vice
President Mike Pence and other top Trump administration
officials have been promising to ramp up the country’s
capacity to test for coronavirus, but they have failed to meet
their goals.</p> <p>As Bloomberg <a
href="
HTML https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-05/u-s-won-t-meet-coronavirus-test-rollout-goal-senators-say?utm_content=business&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic">reported<br
/></a>on March 5, senators were told in a CDC briefing that the
Trump administration would not be ready to roll out the 1.5
million kits it had promised by the end of this week. The number
would be fewer than 500,000, it appeared.</p> <p><a
href="
HTML https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-many-americans-have-been-tested-coronavirus/607597/">The<br
/>Atlantic</a> has provided the best accounting of how many test
s
have actually been conducted in the United States so far: around
7,000, according to its survey of state health officials and
other sources. That puts the US far behind some of its economic
peers with much smaller
populations:</p> <blockquote> <p>In South Korea, <a
href="
HTML https://abcnews.go.com/International/massive-coronavirus-testing-program-south-korea-underscores-nimble/story?id=69226222">more<br
/>than 66,650 people</a> were tested within a week of its first
case of community transmission, and it quickly became able to
test 10,000 people a day. The United Kingdom, which has only 115
positive cases, has <a
href="
HTML https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public">so<br
/>far tested 18,083 people</a> for the
virus.</p> </blockquote> <p>Making matters worse, some
people who have sought tests in the past few weeks, like
Eaker’s patient, have <a
href="
HTML https://www.marketwatch.com/story/one-womans-miserable-experience-trying-to-get-tested-for-the-coronavirus-2020-03-03">been<br
/>turned away</a>. And these shortcomings make it harder for the
public health community to react to a virus that spreads quickly
and easily.</p> <p>Many people don’t really show
symptoms of Covid-19, or their symptoms are very mild, but you
want them to be tested anyway if there is an opportunity. To do
that, doctors need to be able to order the test, which the CDC
is only now permitting them to do. Commercial labs only recently
started processing the coronavirus test, too, a step health care
providers had been urging the administration to
take.</p> <p>“The issue is with asymptomatic
transmission. You don’t know who is infected, and symptoms
aren’t going to help if the patient doesn’t have
any,” Abraar Karan, a Harvard physician, said. “A
rapid test would help because you can then do mass testing at
scale.”</p> <figure><span><picture
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o
qualified to be tested. Originally, that was limited only to
people who traveled to China or who had been in close contact
with someone known to have Covid-19.</p> <p>Then the tests
expanded to include anyone who traveled to any affected country,
as well as people with unexplained flu-like symptoms. Now,
anyone with a physician’s authorization can be tested for
Covid-19 — that is, if they can access a
test.</p> <p>Meanwhile, the federal government has <a
href="
HTML https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-issues-new-policy-help-expedite-availability-diagnostics">decreased<br
/>some regulatory roadblocks</a>for more testing labs to come
online. Labs can now start testing if they are pursuing an
emergency authorization to test, and they don’t have to
wait for the FDA to give them final approval. But some of the
materials to run the tests are growing scarce for some labs, <a
href="
HTML https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/10/shortage-crucial-chemicals-us-coronavirus-testing/">according<br
/>to Stat</a>.</p> <h3>What needs to happen
next</h3> <p>We don’t need testing just to diagnose
sick people coming into doctor’s offices and hospitals. We
also need testing to do surveillance out in communities.
“You actually have to go out now in many places in the US
and start taking samples from people,” Grubaugh
says.</p> <p>Those surveillance studies will help us
understand how prevalent milder cases are in populations. And
adding those milder cases to data sets will help researchers
determine more accurately how deadly this virus is, whom it
tends to infect, and how often people spread it before showing
symptoms. As testing ramps up, be prepared to hear about a lot
more cases of Covid-19 in the US.</p> <p>As former FDA
Commissioner Scott Gottlieb <a
href="
HTML https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1238058027510575107">tweeted</a><br
/>Thursday, the private labs also need to step up. “Only b
ig
national clinical labs like LabCorp and Quest can fill the void.
A lot rides on them now. ... Only these big national chains have
throughput, scale, and ordering systems to fill the void that
was created. We look to them now. We need
them.”</p> <p>All that information can then be used to
better halt the spread of the illness.</p> <p>Again, without
testing, we’re in the dark. And while we’re in the
dark, the virus can spread. As Rasmussen says, “we
don’t know what the prevalence actually
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Is The USA "playing catchup" in regard to COVID-19 tes
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other hand, we-the-people have to pay piecemeal through our
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Cover Trump's Ass and Fudge the Numbers
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Camp Runamuck's Response to a Global Pandemic: Cover Trump's Ass
and Fudge the Numbers
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Oh, and give Jared Kushner some Internet access to sort it all
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[html]<h2 class="subhead"></h2> <div class="metadata
singleline"> <div class="byline">By <a
href="safari-reader://www.esquire.com/author/7884/charles-p-pier
ce/"
data-vars-ga-ux-element="Byline"
data-vars-ga-call-to-action="Charles P. Pierce"><span>Charles P.
Pierce</span></a></div> <span class="delimiter"></span><time
datetime="2020-03-13T16:48:06.970133Z" class="date">Mar 13,
2020</time></div> <div class="leading-image">
<div class="credit"><span class="image-photo-credit">JIM
WATSON</span><span class="image-copyright">Getty
Images</span></div> </div> <p>Mother of
god.</p> <p>From NPR (via <em><a
href="
HTML https://theweek.com/speedreads/902009/trump-reportedly-rejected-aggressive-coronavirus-testing-hopes-help-reelection"<br
/>target="_blank"
data-vars-ga-outbound-link="
HTML https://theweek.com/speedreads/902009/trump-reportedly-rejected-aggressive-coronavirus-testing-hopes-help-reelection">The<br
/>Week</a></em>):</p> <blockquote class="clear">In January,
Azar "did push past resistance from the president's political
aides to warn the president the new coronavirus could be a major
problem," <a
href="
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/>data-vars-ga-outbound-link="
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/>said</a>, but he "has not always given the president the
worst-case scenario of what could happen. My understanding is
[Trump] did not push to do aggressive additional testing
in recent weeks, and that's partly because more testing might
have led to more cases being discovered of coronavirus outbreak,
and the president had made clear — the lower the numbers
on coronavirus, the better for the president, the better for his
potential re-election this
fall."</blockquote> <p><em>Holy</em> mother of
god.</p> <p>From the <em><a
href="
HTML https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-03-13/trump-administration-blocks-states-use-medicaid-respond-coronavirus-crisis"<br
/>target="_blank"
data-vars-ga-outbound-link="
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/>Angeles Times</a></em>:<u></u></p> <blockquote
class="clear">In previous emergencies, including the 9/11
terrorist attacks, Hurricane Katrina and the H1N1 flu outbreak,
both Republican and Democratic administrations loosened Medicaid
rules to empower states to meet surging needs. But months into
the current global disease outbreak, the White House and senior
federal health officials haven’t taken the necessary steps
to give states simple pathways to fully leverage the mammoth
safety net program to prevent a wider
epidemic.</blockquote> <p><em>Holy </em>mother of <em>fcking
god.</em></p> <p>From <em><a
href="
HTML https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/13/jared-kushner-combat-coronavirus-facebook-127941"<br
/>target="_blank"
data-vars-ga-outbound-link="
HTML https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/13/jared-kushner-combat-coronavirus-facebook-127941">Politico</a></em>:<em></em></p> <blockquote<br
/>class="clear">Just before midnight Wednesday, a doctor asked a
group of fellow emergency room physicians on Facebook how they
would combat the escalating coronavirus outbreak. “I have
direct channel to person now in charge at White House,”
Kurt Kloss wrote in his post. The next morning, after hundreds
of doctors responded, Kloss explained why he sought the
suggestions: Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s
son-in-law and senior adviser, had asked him for
recommendations.</blockquote> <blockquote
class="clear">Kloss, whose daughter is married to
Kushner’s brother, sent Kushner 12 recommendations
Thursday morning. The Facebook crowd-sourcing exercise showed
how Trump‘s team is scrambling for solutions to confront
the outbreak after weeks of criticism for the administration's
sluggish response, a shortage of tests and the president’s
own rhetoric downplaying the pandemic. It is now expected to
consume the final year of Trump's first term and threaten his
campaign for a second term.</blockquote> <p>This is the
response of Camp Runamuck to a global pandemic. Cover the
president*’s oversized caboose, fudge the numbers, and
give the Dauphin some Internet access? <em>El Caudillo del
Mar-a-Lago </em>was planning another news conference for Friday,
which promised to be a big bag of lies and blame-shifting.
(He’s taken to lying about the Obama administration at
full volume, so the elderly shut-ins and proud ignorami in his
base will have a black guy to blame.) But the fact is that
electing a TV clown and real-estate grifter to be president just
to own the libs—and because you hate Hillary Rodham
Clinton—turns out to have been a bad idea all around. This
is an administration that was set up to fail and it has followed
its programming precisely.</p> <div
class="clear"> <p></p> </div> <div
data-align="center" data-size="medium"
class="clear"> <div> <div><span data-expand="2000"
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srcset="
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/>/><source
data-srcset="
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/>media="(min-width: 30rem)"
srcset="
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/>/><img alt="President Trump Joins Coronavirus Task Force
Briefing At White House" title="President Trump Joins
Coronavirus Task Force Briefing At White House"
data-src="
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/></picture></div> </div> <div>Holy mother of
god. <p><span>Drew Angerer</span><span>Getty
Images</span></p> </div> </div> <p>If it were up to
me, I’d impeach him again and, this time, no hearings.
Straight to the floor of the House with a privileged resolution
and then straight to an up-or-down vote on the articles. If that
NPR story is accurate, then he has clearly violated his oath of
office and put the health and safety of the nation at risk for
his own private political purposes. Let 52 Republican senators
defend that with their votes. Let Susan Collins furrow her brow
over that as her poll numbers tank. The last time, it was the
integrity of our elections that was endangered. This time,
it’s Grandma with her asthma. People can identify more
with the latter, I think, than with the ratfcking of the distant
Volga Bagmen.</p> <p>Of course, that won’t happen.
It’s the wrong thing on which to waste time in these
perilous days. It’s why I am not a member of Congress, let
alone in leadership. (A grateful nation rejoices.) All we can do
is listen to the voices of reason that really are out there.
It’s only a matter of time before Dr. Anthony Fauci <a
href="
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/>target="_blank"
data-vars-ga-outbound-link="
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/>his stack</a> regarding administration* incompetence, I’
m
thinking. On Thursday, on CNBC, Senator Professor Warren
proposed <a
href="
HTML https://www.cnbc.com/video/2020/03/12/elizabeth-warren-talks-grassroots-plan-to-address-coronavirus-crisis.html"<br
/>target="_blank"
data-vars-ga-outbound-link="
HTML https://www.cnbc.com/video/2020/03/12/elizabeth-warren-talks-grassroots-plan-to-address-coronavirus-crisis.html">an<br
/>economic emergency plan</a> that seemed to make so much sense
to
Jim Cramer than he looked like he might vote for her right there
on the air. And Joe Biden gave another strong, earnest
presidentialish address on the subject. Local and state
officials are doing heroic work. If your governor or state
legislator is stepping up, drop them a line and tell them
you’re behind them.</p> <div data-align="center"
data-size="medium" class="clear"> <div> <div><span
data-expand="2000"
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srcset="
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/>/><img alt="President Donald J. Trump" title="President Donald
J. Trump"
data-src="
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/></picture></div> </div> <div>The Dauphin will handle
this. <p><span>The Washington Post</span><span>Getty
Images</span></p> </div> </div> <div
class="clear"> <p></p> </div> <p>It looks like new
tests for the virus is not far off; both <a
href="
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/>target="_blank"
data-vars-ga-outbound-link="
HTML https://www.cleveland19.com/2020/03/12/cleveland-clinics-new-coronavirus-testing-capabilities-will-deliver-results-within-hours/">the<br
/>Cleveland Clinic</a> and <a
href="
HTML http://www.startribune.com/mayo-clinic-fast-tracks-covid-19-test-coronavirus-minnesota/568741482/"<br
/>target="_blank"
data-vars-ga-outbound-link="
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/>Mayo clinic </a>have announced that they’ve developed on
e.
If we can get Camp Runamuck and the president*’s
elephantine self-regard out of the way, we might even be able to
catch up to <a
href="
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/>Korea</a> and <a
href="
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/>target="_blank"
data-vars-ga-outbound-link="
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/>with our testing regime. Senegal has developed a test that
produces results in four hours. Our president* can’t put
on his shoes in four hours.</p> <p>As it happens, I’ve
been re-watching HBO’s tremendous <em>Chernobyl</em>
miniseries. There is a scene in the third installment in which
Legasov, the nuclear scientist who is trying to break through
the fog of official lies and stupidity, argues that the
evacuation zone around the demolished plant be extended from 30
km to 300 km, based on the amount of radioactivity present in
the ground. Legasov cannot get Scherbina, the party apparatchik
assigned to his work, to listen to him. Finally, Legasov
explodes:</p> <blockquote class="clear">Maybe I’ve
just spent too much time in my lab. Maybe I’m just stupid.
Is this really the way it all works? An uninformed arbitrary
decision that will cost who knows how many lives made by some
apparatchik? Some career party
man?</blockquote> <p>Congratulations, Republicans.
Congratulations, conservatives. You’re manage to make
yourselves into the Soviet party apparatus of the mid-to-late
1980s, when everything was falling apart and the institutions of
government were so petrified and stultified that nobody could do
anything at all. You’ve dragged us all along with you,
too. Vote them out. Vote them all out. It’s all
that’s left to do.</p> <p><em><strong>Respond to this
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