@AarneGranlund Or we can talk about the fact that group was a bunch of useless political hacks. Their sole function was to add a highly politicized layer into the government & get in the way of the President & agencies who have handled disease outbreaks for generations.
@IAintTheSharp @JesseASweeney@BernieSanders The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the leading national public health institute of the United States. Formed: July 1, 1946 predecessor agencies date to 1942. There are currently 15,000 people who work for the CDC.
@ReneeArnett You are completely dismissing 242 year old infrastructure of disease control in the US because a layer of political influence on top of it got tossed out as a bad idea?
The Surgeon General est 1778 - 242 years ago?
CDC & HHS est 1942-1946 updates its Strategic Plan, every 4 years
@WarmGingerTea @FrankFigliuzzi1 Was dropped just before midnight last night ET.
https://t.co/Nra4xstqq9
Washington post had basically same story just before 10:00 pm Eastern time
https://t.co/Vhf6vPP0SA
@Michell67610756 @MotherJones The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the leading national public health institute of the United States. Formed: July 1, 1946 predecessor agencies date to 1942. The fact that Mother Jones is clueless does not make it an emergency.
@Michell67610756 @MotherJones Health & Human Services updates its Strategic Plan, updated every 4 years An agency strategic plan is one of three main elements required by the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993 (P.L. 103-62) and the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010 (P.L. 111-352).
@Michell67610756 @MotherJones That is because it was a group of political hacks Obama put in place on top of several other organizations which have had that responsibility for generations.
Office of the Surgeon General est 1778 (Dr. John Woodworth, was appointed as the first Supervising Surgeon in 1871)
@MidnightAura@MotherJones Actually it was State Department weenies that directly violated earlier agreements on the contaminated & did not bother to tell the President until the plane was in the air.
https://t.co/Vhf6vPP0SA
Even CNN is telling the same story
https://t.co/Nra4xstqq9
@WarmGingerTea @FrankFigliuzzi1 I think CNN's story is far more likely, and efforts to seed this news bit without proof is highly unprofessional - where is the communique were he gave that supposed order? Folks have been trying to plant this seed for a couple days now all of a sudden it is 180 deg wrong?
@BirdyErudite Did you know it was a redundant layer of political padding by the Obama administration & we have had other agencies responsibly for that for over 100 years? (Surgeon Generals office, Health and human services, Federal Emergency management agencies, CDC & the military etc.)
@scotbot The assertion of re-infection is not consistent with reports that antibodies from the blood of survivors help recovery. That is only possible if immunity is developing. I think they are confusing a "relapse" with re-infection.
@ks10650@POTUS The US government has been working this issue since Jan 7 2020.
There is a lot of things that go on in the background that are not flashy photo op events that are necessary to respond to this sort of situation. Emergency response is complex.
https://t.co/Zce30vWdMV
@Richiericher1@DrEricDing They have been saying those over 50 or so "with co morbiditie-" were more likely to experience severe symptoms be admitted to ICU and die that is not the same thing as who catches the disease.
@PaesurBiey Switch to the semi-log plot is makes sense, this new jump pulls the end point up to long term trend line of plot. They may be trying to get their data more in accordance with other countries, in a few weeks without that correction it will be obvious their data is cooked.
#2019nCov#China#CGart A drawing by a popular Chinese CG artist. It expressed the Chinese people's high respect for medical workers. The carnation of pink carnations in China is healing, touching and loving you. The Chinese words mean: To the warrior.
@Mhwilsonrn @FCatalfumo Yes they announced formal names for both the virus and the disease it triggers
2019-nCoV = SARS-CoV-2
The disease it causes is now named COVID-19
@eatsleepsucces5 From what I am seeing, the name Covid-19 is the proper name for the "disease syndrome" produced by an infection with the 2019-nCoV virus.