The Trump Administration Is Stalling an Intel Report That Warns the U.S. Isn't Rdy for a Glbl Pandmc
Source: Time Magazine
The Trump Administration Is Stalling an Intel Report That Warns the U.S. Isnt Ready for a Global Pandemic
An annual intelligence report that has been postponed without explanation by President Donald Trumps administration warns that the U.S. remains unprepared for a global pandemic, two senior government officials who have reviewed a draft of the report tell TIME.
The office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) was scheduled to deliver the Worldwide Threat Assessment to the House Intelligence Committee on Feb. 12 and the hearing has not been rescheduled, according to staffers and members of the House and Senate intelligence committees. The DNIs office declined requests for a comment on the status of the report. Democratic staffers say they do not expect the report to be released any time soon.
The final draft of the report remains classified but the two officials who have read it say it contains warnings similar to those in the last installment, which was published on January 29, 2019. The 2019 report warns on page 29 that, The United States will remain vulnerable to the next flu pandemic or large-scale outbreak of a contagious disease that could lead to massive rates of death and disability, severely affect the world economy, strain international resources, and increase calls on the United States for support.
The 2019 warning was the third time in as many years that the nations intelligence experts said that a new strain of influenza could lead to a pandemic, and that the U.S. and the world were unprepared. Although the international community has made tenuous improvements to global health security, these gains may be inadequate to address the challenge of what we anticipate will be more frequent outbreaks of infectious diseases because of rapid unplanned urbanization, prolonged humanitarian crises, human incursion into previously unsettled land, expansion of international travel and trade, and regional climate change, the 2019 threat assessment warned.
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Read more: https://time.com/5799765/intelligence-report-pandemic-dangers
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OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)Btw. I know an orthopedic doc who has 1 N95 Facemask. Used for 4th day in a row today. In a major city. Government on the cheap is dangerous
htuttle
(23,738 posts)OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)We have to get the word out
yonder
(9,676 posts)mysteryowl
(7,396 posts)The WH is not doing their job, so congress is considering taking on that roll.
Call your reps. We need this!
lavenderdiva
(10,726 posts)just like the other hearings they've had where they only invite Repub Congresspeople....
pretty good odds, I'd say
gab13by13
(21,405 posts)and clearly showed that the coronavirus is a pandemic right now. It fits the dictionary definition to a tee.
liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)These people are beyond contempt. It's as if they believe the danger Trump's and the entire GOP's incompetence have put us all in will can be diverted by putting Asians in danger with their despicable racism. I just can't with this shit anymore.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)The sorry motherfucker. And McTurtle who seems to have disappeared in his shell.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,043 posts)SunSeeker
(51,715 posts)cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)to realize what a clusterfuck of this outbreak Trump is making and how foolish they have been by blinding supporting the shit stain.
Dem2theMax
(9,654 posts)Trump: " If only we knew its seat assignment."
Here we go again?
AwakeAtLast
(14,134 posts)Dem2theMax
(9,654 posts)Never in a million years could I have come up with the hell we are living through.
I don't think I bought enough chocolate to get me through the rest of this year.
C Moon
(12,221 posts)These bastards need to be removed from our government. They don't give a damn about ANYONE but themselves and their own money.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)C Moon
(12,221 posts)Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)amcgrath
(397 posts)that the US has a private medical system.
American drug companies and hospitals do not want to carry stock of test kits and other essentials when they are not a guaranteed source of profit.
Countries with a government healthcare system are much better prepared as it is a health 'service' rather than a health 'business'. When it is the governments job and expenditure to keep people safe, preventative steps and preparation come to the fore.
I believe it was SARS in 2003 when the high speed ferry between Seattle Washington and Victoria Canada was offering day trips that included afternoon tea at a Victoria hotel and a dose of medicine believed to reduce the effects of the SARS virus. - which was available in Canada, as a nationalized medical system had ensured it was there if it was needed. Patients in the States were unable to get it without making the journey.
A medical facility that is run for profit, simply has no interest in tying up capital in medical supplies that might expire before they are used. They don't care about public health, they care about profit
This is why we need the whole system changed with comprehensive Medicare for All. Patient-focused, not profit-focused.