How would President Clinton have handles C-19 differently
Although she is not president, despite winning more votes we can take an educated guess on how she would respond.
1/ she would not have fired the pandemic response team. Because of that the US would be ahead of the curve instead of "flattening the curve"
2/ She would not have eliminated the USA infectious disease specialist position embedded in the China CDC.
As a result of NOT doing those 2 things, we would have been watching when this started. We would have had a whole team of CDC specialists working on this last year. <- this is important. Because the US was caught flat footed; conspiracy theories abound and disinformation runs rampant, creating a panic.
3/ she would have accepted the WHO test kits ASAP. As a stop-gap until we could create our own. if we hadn't already.
By doing this the infection rate would be lower. Asymptomatic carriers would have been found and quarantined. Symptomatic people would be found and treated before their symptoms became severe, saving lives.
4/ She would not been on TV everyday inciting panic, with lie after lie.
5/As for needed supplies? She would have known the comfort ships were in dry dock for maintenance. She would have either not promised their delivery until ready or hastened their preparedness.
6/ She would have given updates based on facts and science. Calls for unity and strength. Asking Americans to stand up to meet the common goals, while consoling those who are affected.
7/ While you can't prove a negative, I suspect the stock market would not be in total collapse as they are now. Strong leadership and a proactive instead of a reactive government creates calm, not chaos.
In the absence of a strong leadership, you get what we have today. 4 months in and still no test kits, shutdowns across the USA, free-fall on Wall St. People holding their breath for 10 seconds as a self test, people ignoring quarantine guidelines, white supremacists planning to infect the police and responders, and so on. We have become a 3rd world country in 3 years.
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