Even if you completly overlook the dumb tweets and claims DJT and buch of his inner circle was spreading. Someone realy should have taken the damn phone off DJTs hands.
Altough its true CDC budget for domestic work was not cut ,thats only because admin proposals did not got trough the congress
In 2018 80% of the CDC funding to combat global pandemics abroad was cut ,The funding support, which went to training local health professionals and bolstering emergency response across 49 countries, was reduced to just 10 nations. China wasn’t included in the revised list.
''Resoults for first tests took 4 days after a delayed response for requests for disease testing from the CDC, according to medical staff at UC Davis Medical Center in California. They blamed the center’s narrow specifications for distributing coronavirus testing kits; the organization allegedly took days to approve the medical center’s request.''
''In 2018, the National Security Council’s global pandemic director left his
post abruptly; then his entire team was disbanded by former national security adviser John Bolton. The Trump administration has yet to refill any of those positions, leaving huge vulnerabilities in US global pandemic preparedness. ''
''October 2019 the Trump Administration
opted to discontinue a Bush-era program expanded under Obama—called “Predict”—that monitored the threat of animal-born diseases to humans, the
possible origin point of the novel coronavirus. The program was behind the discovery of more than 1,000 viruses, including an Ebola strain.''
''During a standoff on a tarmac in Japan, the State Department
pushed to allow 14 coronavirus-infected Americans to board a pair of flights back to the United States. The CDC fought back back, arguing that bringing them back—especially considering the planes carried 300 other passengers who’d tested negative for the disease—would pose an unnecessary risk and more than double the number of infected in the country. In the end, the State Department got its way.''
''As the crisis unfolded
one-third of the coronavirus task force took time off to speak at the
Conservative Political Action Convention.''
''When a CDC
–distributed coronavirus test kit incorrectly gave a negative result,
an infected patient was allowed to leave a San Diego hospital. The patient, who was flown back to the US from China, rejoined the quarantine tank of repatriated citizens for an entire day, before being brought back to the hospital. ''
For all intents and purposes no one will care about the dates CDC started preparng all that will be remebered when time push things fell apart like in some 3d world country and that was weeks after most of the world already started own battle.
