Trump's half truths are very dangerous. There is nothing he says that is believable, especially considering the fate of some when contracting the corona virus. He will declare an emergency and fund a border wall. He will declare a health emergency for opioid epidemic WITHOUT funding that emergency, but, he absolutely will not declare a health emergency for the coronavirus. He should never have been left in office. He is untrustworthy and dangerous.
If Wall Street can be buoyed with lies, then there is no real economy.
February 25, 2020
By Kevin Breuninger
The White House said (click here)President Trump was referring to the Ebola virus — not the deadly coronavirus — when he claimed that “we’re very close to a vaccine.”
The Food and Drug Administration announced in December that it had approved a vaccine for the prevention of the Ebola virus.
The president’s comments came as he and his administration have worked to ease the growing fears, from markets and governments alike, that a pandemic is on the way.
He is only capable of the unthinkable. It is the only thing he ever contemplates.
Ebola trial vaccine (click here)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (click here) approved the Ebola vaccine rVSV-ZEBOV (tradename “Ervebo”) on December 19, 2019. The rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine is a single dose vaccine regimen that has been found to be safe and protective against only the Zaire ebolavirus species of ebolavirus. This is the first FDA approval of a vaccine for Ebola.
Another investigational vaccine was developed and introduced under a research protocol in 2019 to combat an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This vaccine leverages two different vaccine components (Ad26.ZEBOV and MVA-BN-Filo) and requires two doses with an initial dose followed by a second “booster” dose 56 days later. The second vaccine is also designed to protect against only the Zaire ebolavirus species of Ebola.
Regarding COVID-19:
February 24, 2020
By James Hamblin
...The Harvard epidemiology professor Marc Lipsitch (click here) is exacting in his diction, even for an epidemiologist. Twice in our conversation he started to say something, then paused and said, “Actually, let me start again.” So it’s striking when one of the points he wanted to get exactly right was this: “I think the likely outcome is that it will ultimately not be containable.”...
...Within the past two weeks, the CDC said it would start screening people in five U.S. cities, in an effort to give some idea of how many cases are actually out there. But tests are still not widely available. As of Friday, the Association of Public Health Laboratories said that only California, Nebraska, and Illinois had the capacity to test people for the virus.
With so little data, prognosis is difficult. But the concern that this virus is beyond containment—that it will be with us indefinitely—is nowhere more apparent than in the global race to find a vaccine, one of the clearest strategies for saving lives in the years to come....
There was absolutely no coordination or cooperation when Americans returned from Japan. Decisions as to where they would land and be quarantined was still undecided as the jet was in mid-air to the USA from Japan.
There is no leadership and when mistakes are made and things fall through the cracks the resolve by Trump is, "Your fired," after the fact. There is not enough qualified staff with this administration. Decisions are made without facts. It is like a air traffic control tower without air traffic controllers.
February 20, 2020
By Lena H. Sun, Lenny Bernstein, Shibani Mahtani and Joel Achenbach
..."It was like the worst nightmare,” (click here) said a senior U.S. official involved in the decision, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations. “Quite frankly, the alternative could have been pulling grandma out in the pouring rain, and that would have been bad, too.”
The State Department won the argument. But unhappy CDC officials demanded to be left out of the news release that explained that infected people were being flown back to the United States — a move that would nearly double the number of known coronavirus cases in this country.
The tarmac decision was a pivotal moment for U.S. officials improvising their response to a crisis with few precedents and extraordinarily high stakes. Efforts to prevent the new pathogen from spreading have revealed the limits of the world’s readiness for an unprecedented public health emergency. In the worst-case scenario, covid-19, a flulike respiratory infection, could become a full-blown global pandemic....
