Health official says US missed some chances to slow virus
Source: Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. government was slow to understand how much coronavirus was spreading from Europe, which helped drive the acceleration of outbreaks across the nation, a top health official said Friday.
Limited testing and delayed travel alerts for areas outside China contributed to the jump in U.S. cases starting in late February, said Dr. Anne Schuchat, the No. 2 official at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“We clearly didn’t recognize the full importations that were happening,” Schuchat told The Associated Press.
The coronavirus was first reported late last year in China, the initial epicenter of the global pandemic. But the U.S. has since become the hardest-hit nation, with about a third of the world's reported cases and more than a quarter of the deaths.
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The ironic thing is that Trump and Fox News is focusing on how China delayed for about three weeks to take COVID-19 seriously before it placed Wuhan on lockdown in mid-January. Yet, if China is worthy of scorn for such a delay, how do you explain Trump taking three months to take any action to prepare for the pandemic? Afterall, by the time over a million people in China were being placed on lockdown in January, it was pretty clear the virus was spreading.
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Ya'll, We "missed" then BIGGEST chance to slow the spread of this or any other pandemic. The ELECTION OF NOV. 2016--BIG MISTAKE; HUUUGE!
