[SunkenCiv]

• CDC: 80,000 People Died Of Flu Last Winter In U.S., Highest Death Toll In 40 years
• Feds have 1.5 million expired N95 masks in storage despite CDC clearing them for use on COVID-19: report
• Internal Emails Show How Chaos at the CDC Slowed the Early Response to Coronavirus
• NIH failed to test coronavirus drugs, studied drunk monkeys, soap operas, and tailgating instead

[hal ogen]

Unfortunately, this seems to support the view that government “workers” at any level often bung things up. All stereotypes have at least a kernel of truth.

[gleeaikin]

I wonder if that high death toll of flu last winter in the US (80,000 versus a typical 20 or 30 thousand) was caused by early cases of Covid-19. It seemed that there were positive tests in our upper northwest of people who had been sick back in December.