Posted on 04/03/2020 6:37:29 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration's decision to let states chart their own responses to the coronavirus crisis rather than impose a national strategy will cost thousands of lives and is likely to result in an open-ended outbreak rolling across the country, a dozen public health experts told NBC News.
The only way to win what President Donald Trump has called a war against an "invisible enemy" is to establish a unified federal command, the experts insist - something Trump has yet to do. So far, the federal government hasn't leveraged all its authority and influence to dramatically expand testing and tracing measures, ensure a sufficient supply of crucial medical equipment or require residents of all 50 states to stay at home.
Each day that passes without such a national strategy, the experts say, will raise the ultimate U.S. death toll from COVID-19, the disease associated with the virus. Right now, there aren't enough tests and gear as states compete with one another to buy them on the open market. And there is very little ability to trace who has the virus and where it is spreading.
"This is a problem that we should be dealing with over the entire nation," said William Haseltine, a biologist famed for his work on HIV and AIDS. "This is a national problem - it needs a national response."
"The president says we are at war with the coronavirus," wrote Dr. Harvey Fineberg, president of the Institute of Medicine at Harvard University's School of Public Health. "It's a war we should fight to win."
As of now, that isn't happening, said Laurie Garrett, a public health expert and author of "The Coming Plague" and other books that warned of the growing danger posed by pandemics.
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Sorry-but word ‘experts’ has lost all meaning.
That is why they are called Fake News!
X-spurts!
4 sick in my Town with a population of 45,000. Ridiculous for everyone to have to hibernate.
Ex = Outside or former
Pert = impudent.......................
All for a virus that is not that deadly, and whose outcome is not matching up to the models.
SOunds like a good time for emergency legislation instituting Common Sense Licensing and Regulations on Commercial Speech
1. Making Deliberate False Statements disguised as NEWS shall be a FELONY, Punishable by LIFE IN PRISON.
I believe the CHINESE had a unified strategy and look what it got them.
We still live in a Republic. States have rights. The feds can provide guidelines but this battle will be won or lost at the local level.
Actually by having so many different approaches we are more likely to find the right one sooner then later. If the Feds were to mandate just one way to do things it could very well be the exact wrong thing to do.
A dozen experts! A dozen experts! In a day that you can easily find a dozen experts who recommend eating bird poop to fend off the coronosvirus, I’m not going to pay much attention to this article.
“EXPERTS” are trying to set up PRESIDENT TRUMP as being a dictator. Their plan isn’t working.
Again we see “experts” who also just happen to be members of some hardcore leftist organization, former Obama official, or in partnership with the Clinton crime family.
“All for a virus that is not that deadly”
It has been for more than 6000 in the US so far.
Becoming a coronavirus “expert” must be like sending away for your mail order clergy ordination like Fred Sanford did.
Those “experts”...have TDS
We are learning that Democrat Governors are useless.
Trump had a strategy, but NBC mocked him instead of supporting the strategy.
It almost seems like the further you ascend in your discipline or profession, the fewer and weaker requirements you meet or qualifications you can expect.
THAT goes double for the government and media employees!!
Trump needs to remind these morons that we are a nation of STATES and Trump is, rightfully, letting each states elected leadership and health departments handle their respective responses while providing federal assistance and guidance as they call for it.
In short - he’s acting PROPERLY.
NBC Oral Defecation! Nothing more!!
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