'No more bickering': Surgeon general slams
media for 'finger-pointing' at Trump
administration over coronavirus response
Washington Examiner,
by
John Gage
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
3/14/2020 3:59:03 PM
Surgeon General Jerome Adams ripped into reporters during a White House press conference, telling them they should stop blaming the Trump administration for their response to the coronavirus outbreak."We really need you all to lean into and prioritize the health and safety of the American people," Adams said at the Saturday press conference. "No more bickering. No more partisanship. No more criticism or finger-pointing."The comment comes as the United States remains far behind many other countries in testing response. Top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci admitted America was "failing" when it came to coronavirus testing.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
planetgeo 3/14/2020 4:11:11 PM (No. 346349)
Well what the heck has the CDC been doing other than providing cushy jobs? Wouldn't the so called Center for Disease Control be a place whose very mission is to control diseases, and especially those that become epidemics? If the current leadership there isn't doing its job then start firing them until you get people in there who are serious about their mission and can in fact have resources, protocols, and infrastructure ready to control such epidemics.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jntsrgn 3/14/2020 4:14:59 PM (No. 346351)
Testing changes nothing. Treats nothing. Cures nothing. The obsession with it is a waste of resources.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Bmoc 3/14/2020 4:15:16 PM (No. 346352)
The Surgeon General says we are behind "in testing response."
We are far and away ahead of the rest of them in the very real response of taking steps to stop its spread. Ask Italy how that went for them.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
AmericaYes 3/14/2020 4:30:47 PM (No. 346368)
Shame on the Examiner.
The SG didn't "slam" anyone. The quote is out of context. The SG was asking the media to be a part of the team to inform/ help Americans. He was saying that the time of divide needs to be over. He said if they would help, it will aid in keeping the the damage done by the virus down. It was a very positive message.
The Examiner and its "reporter" didn't get the message. Maybe they didn't want to. Either way, they misinformed the public and added to the divide.
And the media wonders why Americans have lost all respect for and trust in them. What an ugly bubble they live in.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 3/14/2020 4:41:06 PM (No. 346373)
Deep down, the RATS and their media whores (or maybe it's the other way around) know this isn't as serious as they're making it, and this allows them to stay partisan because it's really not a true crisis in the sense that we all need to come together or die. Some of them would be partisan even if it WAS, I know.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
greggojo 3/14/2020 4:41:24 PM (No. 346374)
These reporters are disingenuous and evil. For people who are not elderly nor with compromised immune systems, the symptoms of the coronoavirus are relatively mild or non-existent (so we would need about 330 million test kits and the ability to evaluate all 330 million tests in order to test everyone for the virus). Currently, there is no treatment for coronavirus, only the symptoms can be treated. Mass testing would help us to isolate people with the virus from the elderly or immune system compromised individuals. A greater value in mass testing is that we would have a better idea of the number of cases, which is now being understated. This in turn will lower the mortality rate (mortality rate = # of deaths / # of cases) which in turn will lower public anxiety. And given the nature of these reporters, they would work to keep the lower mortality rate hidden from the public.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Gallo3 3/14/2020 4:55:03 PM (No. 346384)
You pull the 'DEM' out of 'Pandemic', you get 'PANIC'.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Harlowe 3/14/2020 5:05:23 PM (No. 346393)
Like most journalists, their sins of omission and/or commission contribute to the growing lack of respect for their profession due to such reporting being inadequate or, depending on which “sin” is being committed, false reporting—hoax reporting. For example, in this news account, the journalist wrote: “Top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci admitted America was a ‘failing’ when it came to coronavirus testing.” While that was and remains a true statement made by Dr. Fauci on 3-12-20, at the coronavirus task force press conference on 3-13-20, Dr. Fauci clarified his 3-12-20 statement by explaining that the inherited rules, regulations and specifications from a different time were not meant for the kind of event this country is facing now. Changes have been made to embrace the private sector that will provide a better response to future challenges such as exists right now. To not know about an updated explanation by someone being quoted is understandable; however, if an updated explanation is known and not reported honestly, it is a disservice to the profession of journalism, a betrayal to the country’s citizens, and a disgrace to the journalist.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bighambone 3/14/2020 5:05:43 PM (No. 346394)
The leftist and liberal Democrats and the liberal media are doing everything they can think of to create a panic among the general public thinking that will hurt President Trump’s re-election chances, but in reality they are hurting the country!
The media has been presenting the American people with a 24/7 pandemic information overload, interviewing many different medical practitioners, and political figures, some highly partisan, getting all sorts of opinions from them all over the country, and then using their differences of opinion to create controversy, some of it doomsday opinion or highly partisan opinion. The result being many in the general public don’t know what to think.
The reality is that the country is facing a highly dynamic situation, that is changing daily, and what the President said a couple of days ago may not be what he believes today based upon the most recent advise of his medical and other scientific advisors. Just because statements from days ago are different then statements put out today by authoritative government and scientific sources does not mean that the media should rightly be using the differences in those statements to create controversy to confuse the general public.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MDConservative 3/14/2020 5:22:24 PM (No. 346408)
More and more this "pandemic" is looking and smelling like a "crisis" that won't be wasted by anyone. This appears to be "politics" about to distribute ginormous bucks that a hysterical public is willing to toss with both hands at a public health "emergency" to provide "security" to a frightened public, no different than what was done post-9/11. Starts with that "testing" at $150 a pop...accomplishing nothing in the process. Come back and we can test again tomorrow...ka-ching!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 3/14/2020 5:23:17 PM (No. 346409)
"The system does not — is not really geared to what we need right now — what you are asking for. That is a failing."
I can pretty much assure you that Trump did not design or hamstring the system. It has probably been this way for a while and if the people in it did not make the case for rapid response testing then that is on them. This is an issue for an after the fact review, SHOULD we have this capability? Maybe its a foolish expectation. There are a lot of things that would be beneficial to have when different types of crises come but the cost of preparing for all of them is simply absurd. Nor do you know WHICH one to prepare for. Should we be totally prepared for a hurricane, tornado, flood, blizzard, volcanic eruption? We know Yellowstone is likely to erupt at some point. If it did in five years, we "won't be prepared" for it. We can't be fully prepared for every possible problem that might develop.
Also, as others have mentioned, testing is a bit of a misleading issue. It is not going to identify new, unknown cases. It will help CONFIRM those we already suspect are exposed or sick. It will not cause a change in treatment or quarantine. Negative testing results are not definitive. Italy's patient zero has NOT been identified and THAT may have more to do with the spread of the virus in that Country. By the time they discovered patient 1, it probably had already been spread around and gotten outside any type of net that could have helped to contain it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
judy 3/14/2020 5:37:20 PM (No. 346414)
The news media is out of control...please place them in quarantine
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
davew 3/14/2020 6:02:57 PM (No. 346438)
The original testing protocol developed and implemented by the CDC was based on the standard medical practice of using tests to confirm a physician's diagnosis. The additional testing that is being distributed to commercial labs and drive-through stations still requires that the patient talk to a physician to confirm that they actually need a test based on symptoms and not just want to be tested because they are afraid. If this is not done the number of tests available will be depleted just like what is happening to toilet paper and disinfectant wipes at every store in America.
We don't have an infinite number of tests or respirators so the resources need to be distributed in a prioritized way that meets a real need and not first-come-first-served.
Still under development are Point of Care (POC) tests that would be based on a blood draw and could quickly detect antigens in the sample that indicate exposure to the virus. These would still need a physician's order but the turn around time of hours or minutes would allow for a greater volume of testing without clogging the pipeline for the people who need it. Just being negative for one test doesn't mean you won't contract it later if you are exposed in the future so we won't address the critical problem of not overtaxing the healthcare system.
Even if we had all the tests in the world we still need to use social separation and aggressive hygiene to prevent uncontrolled spread of the virus to vulnerable persons. The objective is to slow the rate of spread to a level that will fit within the finite limits of the available medical resources like respirators and ICU units. As long as the critically ill people can all get the critical care they need the death rate will be minimized. We also need to minimize the rate of infection so that the number of doctors and nurses and police officers and truck drivers and train engineers and air traffic controllers and electric generation engineers etc. that must stay home because they are infectious does not get out of control.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 3/14/2020 6:06:38 PM (No. 346439)
I watched him and cheered and stood and applauded!
He was awesome.
If only those little bastids would STFU!
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