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To: RetiredNow who wrote (1211003)	3/20/2020 10:38:56 AM
From: Wharf Rat	2 Recommendations Recommended By pocotrader rdkflorida2 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578444

How The Trump Administration Turned The Coronavirus Into A Pandemic Coronavirus: Trump's botched response, explained - Vox From insufficient testing to a lack of coordination, Trump’s Covid-19 response has been a disaster years in the making. By German Lopez @germanrlopez german.lopez@vox.com Updated Mar 14, 2020, 12:25pm EDT President Donald Trump’s failure to respond to the coronavirus pandemic didn’t begin with the administration’s inability to send out the millions of test kits experts say are needed to tackle the crisis. It didn’t start with Trump’s bungled messaging downplaying the crisis even as it’s worsened. It began in April 2018 — more than a year and a half before the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the disease it causes, Covid-19, sickened enough people in China that authorities realized they were dealing with a new disease. The Trump administration, with John Bolton newly at the helm of the White House National Security Council, began dismantling the team in charge of pandemic response, firing its leadership and disbanding the team in spring 2018. The cuts, coupled with the administration’s repeated calls to cut the budget for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other public health agencies, made it clear that the Trump administration wasn’t prioritizing the federal government’s ability to respond to disease outbreaks. That lack of attention to preparedness, experts say, helps explain why the Trump administration has botched its response to the coronavirus pandemic....

To: RetiredNow who wrote (1211003)	3/20/2020 12:54:08 PM
From: Thomas M.	4 Recommendations Recommended By locogringo longnshort RetiredNow Winfastorlose Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1578444

I'm reading House testimony on Coronavirus and had NO IDEA how ballsy Trump's decision to ban travel from China was! Apparently, the bureaucrats ran academic models on the scenario & those concluded travel should not be banned. Cuccinelli recommended ban travel anyway, but told Trump what modeling said. Trump banned travel from China and saved untold number of lives. Tell me any Democrat would have made that call!! twitter.com Tom