Reuters: Special Report: How Korea trounced U.S. in race to test people for coronavirus.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-testing-specialrep/special-report-how-korea-trounced-u-s-in-race-to-test-people-for-coronavirus-idUSKBN2153BW?feedType=mktg&feedName=topNews&WT.mc_id=Partner-Google

What you want Dementia BIDEN running the country!  Give me a break!  We would not know WHO was making decisions that guy can't put two sentences together unless it is written for him.  So you better feel lucky Trump running the country now!  You can put Dementia Biden in office next year if you want! 

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Reuters: Special Report: How Korea trounced U.S. in race to test people for coronavirus.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-testing-specialrep/special-report-how-korea-trounced-u-s-in-race-to-test-people-for-coronavirus-idUSKBN2153BW?feedType=mktg&feedName=topNews&WT.mc_id=Partner-Google

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But that’s just the problem - he has consistently positioned himself as the expert, and second guessed the medical and scientific community at every turn. We’ve been talking about this outbreak since January, and many of us have been finishing up our preps while he constantly downplayed it as no big deal, and something that would go away by April as if “by a miracle”. Then he said that nobody could have known it was going to be a problem a month ago (clearly not true), and now he’s the one that knew it would be a pandemic (again, not true). This is not normal behavior for an adult, and his flip flopping and delaying have done nobody any favors. We undoubtedly have massive numbers of cases that are going undetected now because we haven’t had test kits in any meaningful numbers. When we start locking down cities, it will have the opposite effect as those infected, but as yet untested, will be quarantined with the healthy - like millions of tiny cruise ships. Our Expert-in-Chief has created a far bigger problem and made it much harder to tackle at this point. I have coworkers that claimed all along that it was a hoax and nothing to worry about because the President said so. They consequently  have nothing extra stored because they took Trump at his word.

There are many in the US Republican party that seriously downplay this pandemic:

https://www.adn.com/politics/2020/03/19/rep-don-young-tells-alaska-seniors-beer-virus-fears-are-overblown-skips-vote-on-covid-19-relief/

Sorry, folks....I've worked on more than a few outbreaks and even pandemics, dating back to the earliest days of HIV AIDS.  The Trump administration was fully warned about this, and they treated the possibility of a pandemic like a big joke (and many on the Right still do). 

They will end up costing the US millions of lives (2 million predicted) and trillions of dollars. 

There used to be some folks in the Republican party (or Tories etc.) that I admired in the old days....Bob Dole, John McCain, Ronald Reagan, Maggie Thatcher, etc.  They would have been mortified at what has become of their nations.   

Oh well.  See you on the other side, if it comes to that.  The only thing that might halt this is Chinese-style force, and US citizens won't like that type of action.  Sad but true.  The Italians recently published this:  "The lesson we learned is that isolating all positive cases, whether they were sick or not, we were able to reduce transmission by 90 percent," Andrea Cristani, a professor of microbiology at the University of Padua in Italy who helped carry out the testing, told RFI.

I too have been watching.  You are BOTH right.  Yep BOTH!

At the start he at least intimated it was a hoax and would go away in the Summer.  The CDC had already been gutted and test kits from the WHO were refused, yet the CDC's ones were faulty.  This was a disasterous start!  The virus got a good foothold.

Then (presumably, I don't know) he saw the numbers rise and started to understand the whole concept of exponential.  Everything changed and he started coughing up money, organising things and undoing as much of the damage as was possible.

I can't defend his start, but I can't fault his later stuff - I wish my government followed suit.

He is trying to claim America was the saviour of the world by pointing out the use of chloroquine - actually it was the French, Chinese and Koreans that found that out.  As to Bayer donating 3 million doses - That quantity is like trying to sheer a large flock of sheep with a pair of nail scisors.  Chloroquine is not a particularily expensive drug either - it is out of patient and available as a generic.  This arrogant behaviour is annoying!  But not really terrible, just annoying.  Would that my government would licence its use faster. He shamed them with that bit!

So quit the fighting.  We are family here!

Pleeeeese, this is not a Forum to BASH TRUMP!

You are correct,  You sent me off checking.  Aparently every Trump budget has attempted to cut CDC funds, but every one was blocked by congress.

Let’s get real here. Trump was buying time in order to get better prepared. The media was just as guilty in saying it was just the flu. Trump was trying to keep things calm as you see what happened when they told people to prepare. Can you imagine the panic we would have had a month ago with no tests? And for the pandemic planning which Trump is not responsible for, those agencies did a terrible job. All the roadblocks should have been identified in a plan, masks should have been stockpiled, all the stuff they are doing now should have been in a plan before this. Quit blaming Trump, he can only get advice from his experts. This is what happens when you let government run things. We should be focusing on the unprepared CDC, FDA and W.H.O.  So Chuck, if you helped write preparedness plans for these agencies, what can you tell us about those plans?

CRS, DrPH wrote: There are many in the US Republican party that seriously downplay this pandemic: https://www.adn.com/politics/2020/03/19/rep-don-young-tells-alaska-seniors-beer-virus-fears-are-overblown-skips-vote-on-covid-19-relief/ Sorry, folks....I've worked on more than a few outbreaks and even pandemics, dating back to the earliest days of HIV AIDS.  The Trump administration was fully warned about this, and they treated the possibility of a pandemic like a big joke (and many on the Right still do).  They will end up costing the US millions of lives (2 million predicted) and trillions of dollars.  There used to be some folks in the Republican party (or Tories etc.) that I admired in the old days....Bob Dole, John McCain, Ronald Reagan, Maggie Thatcher, etc.  They would have been mortified at what has become of their nations.    Oh well.  See you on the other side, if it comes to that.  The only thing that might halt this is Chinese-style force, and US citizens won't like that type of action.  Sad but true.  The Italians recently published this:  "The lesson we learned is that isolating all positive cases, whether they were sick or not, we were able to reduce transmission by 90 percent," Andrea Cristani, a professor of microbiology at the University of Padua in Italy who helped carry out the testing, told RFI.

Thanks for your thoughts, CRS. I believe we'll see a number like this as well, but I sometimes hesitate expressing it because well, denial is a powerful force. I've been advocating for TOTAL shutdown, but sadly, we won't do it, and our measures may not be enough. 

I AM encouraged by the testing advances. We simply need to test EVERYONE, sick or not, to see if they need to quarantine, and develop an antibody test to determine incidence to see if our quarantines/isolations are working or not. 

If we can test everyone,sympotmatic or not, quickly, we may have a fighting chance.  Then lift shelter in place orders and limit entry/exit on a town by town, county by county, state by state basis.

I can tell you why KiwiMum, Trump's job was to keep people calm while they got a plan together...this Virus exploded 12 weeks ago and most including all of Europe did not think it would happen to them.  At least Trump closed the borders to China...Europe did not and they are paying the price.  It is not easy to get 300 million people ready to SIP especially ones who don't even know what SIP means.   So do I fault him for trying at the start to keep things calm NO, because most people have to ease into the fact a bunch of people 1 Million or more will die and they may have to stay in their house for 8 weeks or more with their kids no less.   

I did not stop prepping because I knew what was coming I have been planning since 2006.  I knew what he was doing, I am smarter than most maybe but it does not take a brain surgeon to figure out what Trump was doing.   So NO I do not mistrust him!  He did the job I hired him to do!

The timeline of the two developments — impeachment and coronavirus — is shocking, and reveals the true cost of hyper-partisanship.

• January 11: Chinese state media report the first known death from an illness originating in the Wuhan market.
• January 15: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) holds a vote to send articles of impeachment to the Senate. Pelosi and House Democrats celebrate the “solemn” occasion with a signing ceremony, using commemorative pens.
• January 21: The first person with coronavirus arrives in the United States from China, where he had been in Wuhan.
• January 23: The House impeachment managers make their opening arguments for removing President Trump.
• January 23: China closes off the city of Wuhan completely to slow the spread of coronavirus to the rest of China.
• January 30: Senators begin asking two days of questions of both sides in the president’s impeachment trial.
• January 30: The World Health Organization declares a global health emergency as coronavirus continues to spread.
• January 31: The Senate holds a vote on whether to allow further witnesses and documents in the impeachment trial.
• January 31: President Trump declares a national health emergency and imposes a ban on travel to and from China. Former Vice President Joe Biden calls Trump’s decision “hysterical xenophobia … and fear-mongering.”
• February 2: The first death from coronavirus outside China is reported in the Philippines.
• February 3: House impeachment managers begin closing arguments, calling Trump a threat to national security.
• February 4: President Trump talks about coronavirus in his State of the Union address; Pelosi rips up every page.
• February 5: The Senate votes to acquit President Trump on both articles of impeachment, 52-48 and 53-47.
• February 5: House Democrats finally take up coronavirus in the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia.

For twenty days, from the day the first death from coronavirus was known, Democrats did nothing about it. They were too busy with the president’s impeachment trial — a trial Pelosi had delayed unnecessarily for several weeks.

To the extent that they commented on coronavirus at all, it was only to tear up the president’s remarks or to call him a racist. They told the nation that he, not coronavirus, was a threat to the national security of the United States.

/www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/13/pollak-democrats-pushed-impeachment-while-coronavirus-spread/