Why the US is short on Covid19 supplies

[coorslite21]

Go to 36 minute mark....maddening..!

5 minutes......    CL 

 

 

 

[64jaguar]

Thanks coorslite21 and plus 1, it appears the Negger is among us,

 

Maddening is putting it mildly. The wingnuts on the left will try Anything to smear the President. Yes CHINA is largely to blame, CHINA, CHINA, CHINA, CHINA....Trump administration inherited this shortage largely because of Barry and Joe's cuts to the CDC, they just kept the flow of money out of the country going like every other previous administration. The FED is famous for doling out billions to their buddy Banksters overseas and where you're paying interest on EVERY dollar they print. You could write several books on the corruption! I believe Trump was chosen for a reason!  

 

FLASHBACK: The Obama-Biden Administration Repeatedly Sought Millions in CDC Cuts

 

https://pjmedia.com/trending/flashback-the-obama-biden-administration-repeatedly-sought-millions-in-cdc-cuts/

Edited March 31, 2020 by 64jaguar

[caddieman]

1 hour ago, 64jaguar said:

Thanks coorslite21 and plus 1, it appears the Negger is among us,

 

Maddening is putting it mildly. The wingnuts on the left will try Anything to smear the President. Yes CHINA is largely to blame, CHINA, CHINA, CHINA, CHINA....Trump administration inherited this shortage largely because of Barry and Joe's cuts to the CDC, they just kept the flow of money out of the country going like every other previous administration. The FED is famous for doling out billions to their buddy Banksters overseas and where you're paying interest on EVERY dollar they print. You could write several books on the corruption! I believe Trump was chosen for a reason!  

 

FLASHBACK: The Obama-Biden Administration Repeatedly Sought Millions in CDC Cuts

 

https://pjmedia.com/trending/flashback-the-obama-biden-administration-repeatedly-sought-millions-in-cdc-cuts/

And here is the other side of the story! So Obama sought millions in cuts Trump cut BILLIONS.
 

 

The cuts started in 2018, as the White House focused on eliminating funding to Obama-era disease security programs. In March of that year, Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer, whose job it was to lead the U.S. response in the event of a pandemic, abruptly left the administration and his global health security team was disbanded.

That same year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was forced to slash its efforts to prevent global disease outbreak by 80% as its funding for the program began to run out. The agency, at the time, opted to focus on 10 priority countries and scale back in others, including China.

Overall in 2018, Trump called for $15 billion in reduced health spending that had previously been approved, as he looked at increasing budget deficits, cutting the global disease-fighting budgets of the CDC, National Security Council (NSC), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Health and Human Services (HHS) in the process.

The effects of those cuts are being felt today. While the CDC announced plans to test people with flu-like symptoms for COVID-19, those have been delayed and only three of the country’s 100 public-health labs have been able to test for coronavirus. The administration’s request for additional funding came roughly two weeks after officials said HHS was almost out of funding for its response to the virus.

https://fortune.com/2020/02/26/coronavirus-covid-19-cdc-budget-cuts-us-trump/

[64jaguar]

Fact check Caddieman,

 

False Claim About CDC’s Global Anti-Pandemic Work

As the COVID-19 disease caused by the new coronavirus has spread around the world, a number of politicians, news organizations and public figures have made the false claim that the Trump administration cut the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s anti-pandemic work in over 40 countries to just 10. The CDC told us that’s not true.  

The claim appears to have been based solely on outdated news reports from early 2018 that said the CDC was preparing to dramatically reduce its work helping to prevent infectious-disease epidemics. Those reports said much of that work on the Global Health Security Agenda, a pact between over 60 nations that began in 2014, had been funded by a five-year, nearly $600 million supplemental package that was dwindling. That one-time funding, which Congress originally appropriated in response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa in 2014, ran out at the end of September 2019.

The director of the CDC’s Center for Global Health did say at the time that, without additional funding, its Division of Global Health Protection “will have to scale its global health security portfolio to focus efforts based on existing resources,” as the Wall Street Journal first reported in January 2018. If that happened, the official said the CDC would shift its focus to just 10 “priority countries” and “plan for the completion of its country-based programs” in 39 other nations, the Journal’s story said. 

Those hypothetical cuts were avoided, however, because Congress later provided more funding for the CDC’s global health programs, the CDC told us in a statement.  

But in remarks from the Senate floor on Feb. 24, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer claimed the Trump administration made “drastic cuts to the global health division at CDC,” before saying, “In 2018, CDC was forced to reduce the number of countries it operated in from 49 to 10.”

Three days later, Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut made a similar claim on Twitter — though he used slightly different figures.

“President Obama set up anti-pandemic programs in 47 vulnerable countries, as a way to protect against something just like Coronavirus breaking out across the world,” Murphy wrote. “Experts begged Trump to keep them open. He closed 37 of them.”

Murphy’s tweet appeared to catch the attention of Joy Behar, co-host of ABC’s “The View,” who made the same claim on the daytime talk show March 9. 

Murphy’s office did not respond when we asked for a source for his statement, and Schumer’s office told us Schumer relied on a New York Times article that was published the day of his floor remarks. That Times piece was not the only one from a news outlet to state that the cutbacks the CDC warned about in 2018 had actually gone into effect.

As we said, the CDC told us that’s false.

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/false-claim-about-cdcs-global-anti-pandemic-work/

Edited March 31, 2020 by 64jaguar

[caddieman]

13 minutes ago, 64jaguar said:

Fact check Caddieman,

 

False Claim About CDC’s Global Anti-Pandemic Work

As the COVID-19 disease caused by the new coronavirus has spread around the world, a number of politicians, news organizations and public figures have made the false claim that the Trump administration cut the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s anti-pandemic work in over 40 countries to just 10. The CDC told us that’s not true.  

The claim appears to have been based solely on outdated news reports from early 2018 that said the CDC was preparing to dramatically reduce its work helping to prevent infectious-disease epidemics. Those reports said much of that work on the Global Health Security Agenda, a pact between over 60 nations that began in 2014, had been funded by a five-year, nearly $600 million supplemental package that was dwindling. That one-time funding, which Congress originally appropriated in response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa in 2014, ran out at the end of September 2019.

The director of the CDC’s Center for Global Health did say at the time that, without additional funding, its Division of Global Health Protection “will have to scale its global health security portfolio to focus efforts based on existing resources,” as the Wall Street Journal first reported in January 2018. If that happened, the official said the CDC would shift its focus to just 10 “priority countries” and “plan for the completion of its country-based programs” in 39 other nations, the Journal’s story said. 

Those hypothetical cuts were avoided, however, because Congress later provided more funding for the CDC’s global health programs, the CDC told us in a statement.  

But in remarks from the Senate floor on Feb. 24, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer claimed the Trump administration made “drastic cuts to the global health division at CDC,” before saying, “In 2018, CDC was forced to reduce the number of countries it operated in from 49 to 10.”

Three days later, Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut made a similar claim on Twitter — though he used slightly different figures.

“President Obama set up anti-pandemic programs in 47 vulnerable countries, as a way to protect against something just like Coronavirus breaking out across the world,” Murphy wrote. “Experts begged Trump to keep them open. He closed 37 of them.”

Murphy’s tweet appeared to catch the attention of Joy Behar, co-host of ABC’s “The View,” who made the same claim on the daytime talk show March 9. 

Murphy’s office did not respond when we asked for a source for his statement, and Schumer’s office told us Schumer relied on a New York Times article that was published the day of his floor remarks. That Times piece was not the only one from a news outlet to state that the cutbacks the CDC warned about in 2018 had actually gone into effect.

As we said, the CDC told us that’s false.

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/false-claim-about-cdcs-global-anti-pandemic-work/

Yes 64jaguar just the facts!

 

The Trump administration badly undermined the effort to contain the coronavirus outbreak by getting rid of most staff tasked with identifying global health problems in China while repeatedly attempting to slash funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to a new report by an environmental watchdog.

 

Over the past three years, the Trump administration has drastically reduced a team working in China to identify global health threats like Covid-19, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year. The initiative’s 11 CDC staffers have been cut to three people, while 39 workers classed as “local employees” have been reduced to 11 people.

 

 

The administration has repeatedly and systematically corroded critical parts of the CDC,” Sellers said. “This was just begging for an epidemic to hit us. It was a perfect storm of lack of preparation.”

Sellers added: “It’s kind of incredible they are now trying to rewrite history to say we have plenty of resources when they’ve systematically targeted them. They should be held responsible by the American people as it is outrageous.”

 

Donald Trump initially reacted to the onward march of coronavirus by calling it a “hoax” before then, also inaccurately, claiming that the US had completely contained the disease.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/24/trump-cuts-undermine-coronavirus-containment-cdc-watchdog-report

As CL says Just the Facts!

[coorslite21]

For me no blame game....and, skip this current crisis.........the US gives $billions away in foreign aid.....yet there are homeless vets living on the street.....that's the real crime!

CL

[64jaguar]

By the way Caddieman, Hope your feeling well and that wasn't Covid 19 you were messing with. 

[Karsten]

Karsten

[Karsten]

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Karsten

[Karsten]

Remember this when you're watching the news...

US was more prepared for pandemic than any other country, Johns Hopkins study found.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-was-most-prepared-country-in-the-world-for-pandemics-johns-hopkins-study-found-in-2019

 

Karsten

[64jaguar]

 

11 minutes ago, Karsten said:

Remember this when you're watching the news...

US was more prepared for pandemic than any other country, Johns Hopkins study found.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-was-most-prepared-country-in-the-world-for-pandemics-johns-hopkins-study-found-in-2019

 

Karsten

 

Absolutely Karsten, Thank you! 

[caddieman]

2 hours ago, 64jaguar said:

By the way Caddieman, Hope your feeling well and that wasn't Covid 19 you were messing with. 

Thanks 64 it was just a sinus infection. Thank God!!

[64jaguar]

1 minute ago, caddieman said:

Thanks 64 it was just a sinus infection. Thank God!!