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The reason few COVID 19 cases have been found in the US? Only 445 have been tested for it as of Friday, Feb. 28. WHY?

There were few test kits available. Of those some had flaws.

There were only 5 test labs who could process them
There will be 40 labs soon

So the apprearance of no problem in the US is deceiving. We don't have the information we need to make that assessment. As testing occurs more cases will be discovered. Meanwhile the infection is spreading.

Why is the US caught so flatfooted?
Dumb don gutted programs and departments that were set up to deal with pandemics

Posted - March 3, 2020
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  • 11367
    Canada has tested over a 1000 people and our population is way less then the US so I can't see how Trump can say that the US is more prepared then any other Country in the World. Cheers!
      March 3, 2020 9:37 AM MST
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  • 34982
    It was not President Trump who made the claim.  He was sighting the Global Health Index which lists the USA as #1 in overall readiness for combating a pandemic outbreak. Canada is 5th on their list. 

    https://www.ghsindex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019-Global-Health-Security-Index.pdf
      March 3, 2020 9:48 AM MST
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  • 13395
    Trump is all fake stuff.
      March 3, 2020 12:01 PM MST
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  • 34982
    No that would be CNN and MSDNC. 
      March 3, 2020 12:45 PM MST
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  • 13395
    Have they made up 16,000+ false claims and misinformation?
      March 3, 2020 1:07 PM MST
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  • 34982
    Yes Daily. How long did they claim Trump was a Russian agent/traitor???? All day and night for years.  
      March 3, 2020 1:21 PM MST
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  • 7280

    Turned out they were right too.

     

      March 3, 2020 1:25 PM MST
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  • 13395
    Trump seems to make servere sanctions against Russia but maintain close relationship with Putin. How does that figure? This post was edited by Kittigate at March 3, 2020 2:15 PM MST
      March 3, 2020 1:36 PM MST
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  • 7280
    I get your point.

    And just for myself and others that may have paused for a moment while reading your comment: From Wikipedia

    The dissolution of the Soviet Union[a] was the process of internal disintegration within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), also referred to as the Soviet Union, which began in the second half of the 1980s with growing unrest in the national republics and ended on 26 December 1991, when the USSR itself was voted out of existence by the Supreme Soviet, following the Belavezha Accords. Declaration number 142-Н by the Supreme Soviet resulted in self-governing independence to the Republics of the USSR, formally dissolving the USSR.[1] The declaration acknowledged the independence of the former Soviet republics and created the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), although five of the signatories ratified it much later or did not do so at all.

    On the previous day, 25 December 1991, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev–the eighth and final leader of the USSR–resigned, declared his office extinct and handed over its powers—including control of the Soviet nuclear missile launching codes—to Russian President Boris Yeltsin. That evening at 7:32 p.m., the Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin for the last time and replaced with the pre-revolutionary Russian flag.[2]
      March 3, 2020 1:48 PM MST
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  • 13395
    Wow!! Thanks. Guess I should have said Russia;  not USSR. This post was edited by Kittigate at March 3, 2020 1:57 PM MST
      March 3, 2020 1:55 PM MST
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  • 7280
    USSR did cause me pause, but it's an easy "misspeak" to make.
      March 3, 2020 1:58 PM MST
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  • 34982
    It is ok. Everyone knows what you meant. 

    Yes. Many sanctions against Russia and Russian citizens.  Russians removed from the USA. Trump has been tougher on Russia than any President since Reagan and USSR. 
      March 3, 2020 2:01 PM MST
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  • 13395
    I donno  why Trump and Putin seem to be having such a nice relationship. 
      March 3, 2020 2:14 PM MST
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  • 34982
    What is so nice about it?  He sanctions them. He removes their citizens. He tells other countries not to buy their oil. 

    Obama sold him USA uranium. He and Hillary had them push a mistranslated "reset button"....Obama told him to wait until after the election and he would be free to negotiate on defense agreements.  Why was Obama's relationship so good. 
      March 3, 2020 2:19 PM MST
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  • 13395
    That was just.temporary. 
      March 3, 2020 5:04 PM MST
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  • 34982
    Oh. Didn't Obama make fun of Romney for mentioning Russia in the 2012 debate? "The 1980s called and they want their foreign policy back." So it was still going on then...

    Sanctions put into place by Trump are still in effect.


      March 3, 2020 6:23 PM MST
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  • 113301
    :):):)
      March 4, 2020 2:32 AM MST
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  • 113301
    :):):)
      March 4, 2020 1:45 AM MST
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  • 113301
    :):):)
      March 4, 2020 1:46 AM MST
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  • 113301
    More talking out of his a** not his mouth via a brain which if he had one we wouldn't be in this mess Nanoose!  He keeps lipsticking the pig and his peeps BELIEVE him. Thank you for your reply and Happy Wednesday m'dear! :)
      March 4, 2020 1:43 AM MST
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  • 34982
    There have been NO CUTS to the CDC. 


      March 3, 2020 9:54 AM MST
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  • The only problems that we see up front with the CDC, is that they have joined the growing chorus of those who have politicized this problem as if the disease can distinguish between ideologies.
      March 3, 2020 11:00 AM MST
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  • 7280
    Trump released his fiscal year 2020 federal budget proposal in March, recommending huge cuts across the federal government, including a 12 percent cut to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and a 10 percent cut for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    At CDC, a reduction of that magnitude equates to a $750 million spending cut over fiscal year 2019. APHA member John Auerbach, MBA, president and CEO of Trust for America’s Health, said the proposed CDC cuts not only threaten federal public health capacity, they would have a “devastating” impact on state and local public health departments, which depend heavily on CDC dollars flowing down to the community level.
      March 3, 2020 1:29 PM MST
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  • 34982
    NO cuts took place. Budget for CDC was actually increased....Trump signed the bills increasing the CDC budget. 

    https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/feb/28/michael-bloomberg/did-donald-trump-fire-pandemic-officials-defund-cd/
      March 3, 2020 1:56 PM MST
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