BREAKING: House Overisght Committee reports that FEMA officials told them this week that only 9,500 ventilators are in the national stockpile and only 3,200 more will be there by April 13.
Bulk of 100K ventilators promised by Trump won’t be there until June. pic.twitter.com/760qjehg6K— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) April 2, 2020
It’s FUBARs all the way down!
Just few months before the novel coronavirus likely began spreading in Wuhan, the Trump administration ended a program aimed at…detecting novel coronaviruses.
They were working with a lab in Wuhan. https://t.co/dHpOorsrEp
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) April 3, 2020
One takeaway from Jared Kushner briefing: we did not start active response phase of dealing with this crisis until 13 days ago.
13 days!
— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) April 2, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: Army briefed ***two months ago*** that coronavirus could kill 150,000 Americans. Yet another warning ignored. https://t.co/XgeXeIYBMG
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) April 2, 2020
Against the advice of health experts, the Trump admin wants to send new rapid coronavirus tests to rural GOP states with few cases instead of blue cities and states with lots of cases. https://t.co/vyj8Q08WrF
— Jason Fagone (@jfagone) April 2, 2020
This is, what, the third CYA story this week about NSC and coronavirus? https://t.co/XN3WBKF3Sd
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) April 3, 2020
Trump — who said “I don’t take responsibility at all” — alternately has blamed China for first spreading the virus, Gov. Cuomo for being slow to contain it, governors generally for requesting help, hospital workers for hoarding supplies, and the media https://t.co/i3xl8JByxe
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) April 3, 2020
Health experts say they now believe nearly one in three patients who are infected are getting a negative test result. https://t.co/MngtrVKcon
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) April 2, 2020
Once more: The president pushed back against the suggestion of suspending domestic plane and rail travel by saying passengers on planes and trains are getting tested twice, before departure and after arrival.
They are not being tested at all: https://t.co/p8CUsRkxs2
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 3, 2020
More than 100,000 Americans are expected to die after a slow initial government response to the coronavirus pandemic and the first person to be fired is … the aircraft carrier captain who pleaded for help for his stricken crew. @ckubeNBC https://t.co/guDOImfekb
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) April 2, 2020
CDC before: Don't hoard masks. You don't need them.
CDC now: Maybe you should have a mask. But not the good ones. Just make whatever you want. It doesn't matter. It's to make you feel better. But don't hoard the life saving ones. Can I redo this? What, this is live?
— Nathan Jensen (@NateMJensen) April 3, 2020
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