Politico: Obama Team's Briefing to Trump Regarding Pandemic, Which Was Ignored

[TomCADem]

It is amazing how accurate President's Obama's briefing was with respect to what might happen in the event of a flu-like pandemic, and how differently the Trump administration chose to act, which includes dismantling the team that established to respond to pandemic threats.

With Ebola in 2014, the U.S. took a lead international role in limiting the spread of Ebola in African, so it did not get here, which is what Joe Biden mentioned during his debate with Bernie, about the need to get representatives on the ground at the initial foreign outbreak. Instead, Trump said close the board and call it a day.

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000170-e50c-d588-ab77-ed5ff3310000

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/trump-inauguration-warning-scenario-pandemic-132797

Seven days before Donald Trump took office, his aides faced a major test: the rapid, global spread of a dangerous virus in cities like London and Seoul, one serious enough that some countries were imposing travel bans.

In a sober briefing, Trump’s incoming team learned that the disease was an emerging pandemic — a strain of novel influenza known as H9N2 — and that health systems were crashing in Asia, overwhelmed by the demand.

“Health officials warn that this could become the worst influenza pandemic since 1918,” Trump’s aides were told. Soon, they heard cases were popping up in California and Texas.

The briefing was intended to hammer home a new, terrifying reality facing the Trump administration, and the incoming president’s responsibility to protect Americans amid a crisis. But unlike the coronavirus pandemic currently ravaging the globe, this 2017 crisis didn’t really happen — it was among a handful of scenarios presented to Trump’s top aides as part of a legally required transition exercise with members of the outgoing administration of Barack Obama.

[uponit7771]

1. K&R, and to this day we still don't have nationwide unrestricted testing. We're hunkering down with

... sick people or people we don't know who are sick.

[TomCADem]

3. Trump said he wants to keep passengers on the ship so numbers don't go up

I think there is a reason why testing is limited long after the first cases appeared.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-keep-passengers-on-grand-princess-cruise-ship-coronavirus-2020-3

The Grand Princess cruise ship hangs in limbo off the coast of San Francisco after 21 of its passengers and crew members tested positive for the new coronavirus.

It is unclear what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plan to do next, or whether the California state government will allow the ship to dock. In the meantime, the 2,422 passengers onboard have been asked to stay in their rooms. The ship also holds 1,111 crew members, many of whom continue to bring meals to passengers' rooms.

During a tour at the CDC on Friday, President Donald Trump said that the experts he consults, including Vice President Mike Pence, want to take people off the ship. However, Trump said that he didn't want the passengers raising the total case count in the US.

"I like the numbers being where they are. I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault," Trump said in a Fox News interview.

[uponit7771]

4. This is so disgusting ... just so disgusting

[bullwinkle428]

2. You mean like when the Shrub administration was warned about Bin Laden by outgoing

members of the Clinton team, and more or less blew off the information?

[Drunken Irishman]

5. Reminds me of Clinton warning Bush about bin Laden.

[captain queeg]

6. I remember a picture of Obama talking with Trump

The imbecile was sitting there with his arms crossed looking away. Obviously tuning everything out.