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Okay, I can see why he had to put that plan on hold. Though I'm sure if he had just a few more months he would have come up with something fantastic......the best plan ever.
Instead, he has been working on solving the testing problems the US has been having ever since the CDC distributed those contaminated test kits.
Given that the wedding ring on his finger is the only qualification the Prince had to head up the WH response to improve testing it isn't all that surprising the 3.5M test kits he helped acquire, at a cost to taxpayers of $52M, were similarly contaminated. "According to documents obtained by Vanity Fair, they were examined in two separate government laboratories and found to be “contaminated and unusable.”
So......not off to a great start. But the goal of the plan was indeed laudable. Rather than have states fight each other for scarce diagnostic tests and limited lab capacity, the plan would have set up a system of national oversight and coordination to surge supplies, allocate test kits, lift regulatory and contractual roadblocks, and establish a widespread virus surveillance system by the fall, to help pinpoint subsequent outbreaks. Great idea, but it never came to pass.
But, the task was daunting. "The group’s collective lack of relevant experience was far from the only challenge it faced. The obstacles arrayed against any effective national testing effort included: limited laboratory capacity, supply shortages, huge discrepancies in employers’ abilities to cover testing costs for their employees, an enormous number of uninsured Americans, and a fragmented diagnostic-testing marketplace."
As it turns out, the plan was never executed on for a variety of reasons. One being.........................."Most troubling of all, perhaps, was a sentiment the expert said a member of Kushner’s team expressed: that because the virus had hit blue states hardest, a national plan was unnecessary and would not make sense politically. “The political folks believed that because it was going to be relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy,” said the expert."
In a nutshell, despite some organizational shortcomings and the inexperience of the people recruited by Jared to work on the plan it was well intentioned and likely would have saved lives if acted upon. Alas, politics got in the way..........as it has so many times with a prez more concerned about himself than anything else in the world.
How Jared Kushner’s Secret Testing Plan “Went Poof Into Thin Air”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/202...728f2e-7f71-4174-b36e-472f56ffd512_popular4-1
Instead, he has been working on solving the testing problems the US has been having ever since the CDC distributed those contaminated test kits.
Given that the wedding ring on his finger is the only qualification the Prince had to head up the WH response to improve testing it isn't all that surprising the 3.5M test kits he helped acquire, at a cost to taxpayers of $52M, were similarly contaminated. "According to documents obtained by Vanity Fair, they were examined in two separate government laboratories and found to be “contaminated and unusable.”
So......not off to a great start. But the goal of the plan was indeed laudable. Rather than have states fight each other for scarce diagnostic tests and limited lab capacity, the plan would have set up a system of national oversight and coordination to surge supplies, allocate test kits, lift regulatory and contractual roadblocks, and establish a widespread virus surveillance system by the fall, to help pinpoint subsequent outbreaks. Great idea, but it never came to pass.
But, the task was daunting. "The group’s collective lack of relevant experience was far from the only challenge it faced. The obstacles arrayed against any effective national testing effort included: limited laboratory capacity, supply shortages, huge discrepancies in employers’ abilities to cover testing costs for their employees, an enormous number of uninsured Americans, and a fragmented diagnostic-testing marketplace."
As it turns out, the plan was never executed on for a variety of reasons. One being.........................."Most troubling of all, perhaps, was a sentiment the expert said a member of Kushner’s team expressed: that because the virus had hit blue states hardest, a national plan was unnecessary and would not make sense politically. “The political folks believed that because it was going to be relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy,” said the expert."
In a nutshell, despite some organizational shortcomings and the inexperience of the people recruited by Jared to work on the plan it was well intentioned and likely would have saved lives if acted upon. Alas, politics got in the way..........as it has so many times with a prez more concerned about himself than anything else in the world.
How Jared Kushner’s Secret Testing Plan “Went Poof Into Thin Air”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/202...728f2e-7f71-4174-b36e-472f56ffd512_popular4-1
