Dr. Birx Pops Media's Coronavirus Panic Balloon

During the coronavirus taskforce briefing on Thursday, Dr. Deborah Birx rebuked much of the media's panic reporting about the number of estimated deaths related to the coronavirus and the state of America's medical supplies. Despite clamorous reports about a shortage of medical supplies in New York, Dr. Birx said her colleagues in the state have reassured her that ICU beds are still readily available and more than a thousand ventilators remain unused. Dr. Birx then took the press to task for their hysterical reporting. "Please, for the reassurance of people around the world," Dr. Birx begged the press corps, "to wake up this morning and look at people talking about creating DNR situations, do not resuscitate situations for patients, there is no situation in the United States right now that warrants that kind of discussion."

Dr. Birx said the coronavirus cases are currently concentrated in urban areas and the focus should be on getting medical resources into those areas from nearby parts of the state that are unaffected by the virus or from other places in the United States. Nearly 40 percent of the country, 19 out of 50 states, have reported early cases of the Wuhan coronavirus but, despite continued testing, are maintaining extraordinarily low numbers of infections, according to Dr. Birx. About 86 percent of people presenting with "significant symptoms" continue to test negative for the virus. On Thursday, the U.K. readjusted a report that initially claimed some 500,000 people would die from the coronavirus in the U.K. and some 2.2 million would perish in the United States. The number for the U.K. was adjusted down to 20,000 deaths, a mere 4 percent of the original estimate, to account for the public health interventions that have since been put in place. U.S. officials are looking into the adjustment in greater detail to understand the reasons for the sharp decline, Dr. Birx announced at the briefing.

The doctor said data on the ground in China, South Korea, and Italy does not match the prediction of the models used to forecast the coronavirus. Dr. Birx said either a large number of asymptomatic people exist in order to account for the discrepancy or the experts have the transmission data completely wrong. "Models are models," Dr. Birx cautioned.

Dr. Birx has repeatedly tried to educate the press about the dire projections often touted in the media's apocalyptic reporting. Projections that 50 or 60 percent of all Americans could become infected with the coronavirus often fail to disclose that such estimates assume that no preventative measures will be taken (they already have) and those estimates include three cycles of outbreaks. Dr. Birx is focused on the current cycle, not the one this Fall or the one in 2021 when vaccines and treatments currently being tested and developed will hopefully be readily available.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2020/03/26/dr-birx-pops-medias-coronavirus-panic-balloon-n2565818

New Orleans Mayor Blames Trump for Not Shutting Down Mardi Gras over Coronavirus

Mayor LaToya Cantrell of New Orleans refuses to take responsibility for her decision not to call off Mardi Gras over concerns of the Wuhan coronavirus. That decision has caused New Orleans to become the epicenter of coronavirus cases in the state of Louisiana, according to medical experts. So who exactly does the Democratic mayor blame for not canceling Mardi Gras in her own city? Donald Trump. In an interview with Wolf Blitzer, Cantrell said she didn't take the threat of the virus too seriously because President Trump didn't take it seriously. She then gave herself credit for canceling other events in her city subsequent to Mardi Gras, like the St. Patrick's Day parade.

"When it's not taken seriously at the federal level, it's very difficult to transcend down to the local level in making these decisions," Cantrell argued. But it was taken seriously at the federal level, as even Mr. Blitzer pointed out. Center for Disease Control Dr. Nancy Messonnier said on Feb. 12, "we can and should be prepared for this new virus to gain a foothold in the United States."

President Trump also announced travel restrictions on China in late January, and states and local governments have tailored their response to help slow the spread of the coronavirus in their own communities. Perhaps the mayor didn't know a virus could easily spread when you pack a million-plus people to party in the streets of New Orleans.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2020/03/26/new-orleans-blames-trump-for-her-decision-not-to-shut-down-mardi-gras-over-wuhan-virus-n2565814

>>8581219

In 100% agreement, no matter what he does or doesn't do the narrative is usually the complete opposite.

Internal Emails Show How Chaos at the CDC Slowed the Early Response to Coronavirus

''The CDC fumbled its communication with public health officials and underestimated the threat of the coronavirus even as it gained a foothold in the United States, according to hundreds of pages of documents ProPublica obtained''

On Feb. 13, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent out an email with what the author described as an “URGENT” call for help. The agency was struggling with one of its most important duties: keeping track of Americans suspected of having the novel coronavirus. It had “an ongoing issue” with organizing — and sometimes flat-out losing — forms sent by local agencies about people thought to be infected. The email listed job postings for people who could track or retrieve this paperwork. “Help needed urgently,” the CDC wrote. This email is among hundreds of pages of correspondence between federal and state public health officials obtained by ProPublica through a records request in Nevada.

During the period in which the correspondence was written, from January to early March, health officials were trying to stay ahead of the coronavirus outbreak underway in China. By mid-February, when the CDC job postings email went out, the virus had a toehold in the United States, where there were already 15 confirmed cases. In another two weeks, the first case of community transmission would be reported in California, followed shortly by cases in Washington. The documents — mostly emails — provide a behind-the-scenes peek into the messy early stages of the U.S. response to the coronavirus, revealing an antiquated public health system trying to adapt on the fly. What comes through clearly is confusion, as the CDC underestimated the threat from the virus and stumbled in communicating to local public health officials what should be done.

The same week the CDC sent out the email about the job openings, the agency sent Nevada officials alerts about 80 potential coronavirus patients to monitor, documents show. Four were not Nevada residents. A state epidemiologist, in each instance, corrected the agency, informing the CDC that the person was from New York, not Nevada. (The CDC then redirected each report to New York, the documents show.) The confusion sometimes went both ways. On March 4, a program manager in the Nevada Health Department reached out to the CDC to ask about congressional funding for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. “There seems to be a communications blackout on this end,” the program manager wrote, wondering if funds would be distributed based on the number of cases in each state or by population. “Unfortunately, there is no clear answer to your questions,” responded a CDC staffer, apologizing for the lack of information. “We are hearing all of the rumor mills as well.” “Thank you,” the Nevada program manager replied. “It’s good to be confused together.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/internal-emails-show-how-chaos-at-the-cdc-slowed-the-early-response-to-coronavirus

>>8581554

Thinking there are many prongs to this scenario..have a look here as well, talks about CDC dropping the ball.. >>8581480