Heather Cox Richardson - March 2, 2020 - Letters From An American

[applegrove]

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com


"SNIP......

America now has 6 COVID-19 fatalities, and today, a spokesperson for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) abruptly canceled a press briefing about the coronavirus. A White House spokesperson later said the CDC would brief Vice President Mike Pence on the coronavirus response. Today information about how many people in the U.S. had been tested for the virus was taken down from the CDC website, presumably because it is such a scandal that we have tested so few people when other countries have tested widely. The website now lists only the number of confirmed cases (43, as of this afternoon).

Trump met with the leaders of ten pharmaceutical companies today to see how they could speed up production of a vaccine. Unfortunately, the tests needed to make sure vaccines work and are safe cannot be rushed, and experts say we’re still 12-18 months away from one (which is actually remarkably fast—usually they take at least two years). Trump’s understanding of vaccines seems shaky: he asked the attendees if the flu vaccine would work on the novel coronavirus.

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[abqtommy]

1. And yet citizens of the U.S. continue to die in various other ways. Sure, COVID-19 is a threat

but it's not the only one. Let's keep it real... don't have a panic attack but attack the panic.