This is our chance to show we won't be broken. This is our chance to defeat our enemies.
Trump is right, we need to fill our churches on Easter.
What a stupid thread.
All the experts say social distance is the way to beat this.
Listen to the experts.
Not the science denying dumb-ass squatting in the Whitehouse.
Honey, he stated he hopes by Easter, hut said if not then we will take it week by week.
oh my-
Medical experts have found that a series of rapid but conservative decisions by federal officials worked out better than many had dared hope.
www.nytimes.com
For example, in the early days, they ignored advice to close the Mexican border and pre-emptively shut school systems. They released part of the national Tamiflu stockpile, but did not give it to millions of healthy people prophylactically, as Britain did. They ordered vaccine made with a 50-year-old egg technology rather than experimental methods. They bought adjuvants chemical “boosters” that could have stretched the first 25 million vaccine doses into 100 million, but did not use them for fear of triggering a backlash among Americans made nervous by the messages of the antivaccine movement.
To alert the public without alarming it, a stream of officials from doctors in the navy blue and scrambled-eggs gold of the Public Health Service to a somber President Obama in the White House offered updates, at least twice a week for months.
by the way-
Because of vaccine production delays, the government has backed off initial, optimistic estimates that as many as 120 million doses would be available by mid-October. As of Wednesday, only 11 million doses had been shipped to health departments, doctor's offices and other providers, according to the federal
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The White House says the declaration allows medical treatment facilities to better handle a surge in flu patients by waiving federal requirements on a case-by-case basis.
www.foxnews.com
Wow, like deja vu, but now backwards-
April 30, 2009— -- Democrats hustled to temper
Vice President Joe Biden's comments today that he would advise his family to avoid flying or being in confined spaces because of concerns about
swine flu, a comment that drew criticism from the travel industry.
At a news conference Wednesday evening, President Obama said Americans who may be sick should avoid airplanes and "any system of public transportation where you're confined," but the vice president today took it one step further.
"I would tell members of my family -- and I have -- I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now. It's not that it's going to
Mexico in a confined aircraft where one person sneezes, that goes all the way through the aircraft,"
Biden said on NBC's "Today" show.
"That's me," he said.
"I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation, suggesting they ride the subway," he said. "From my perspective, this relates to mitigation. If you're out in the middle of the field and someone sneezes, that's one thing. If you're in a closed aircraft, a closed container, a closed car, a closed classroom, that's another thing."
Biden's comments came just hours before
the White House announced that a Department of Energy official who had traveled to Mexico City with Secretary Energy Chu exhibited flu-like symptoms upon his return, but tested negative for the swine flu. However, his wife, son and nephew tested positive for the virus, and have now recovered.
The White House shot down concerns that
the president or any other immediate members of his staff may be impacted. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the individual did not come within six feet of Obama but was present at a dinner with him and did come into contact with Chu.
Gibbs added that about 10 staffers who were on the Mexico City trip with Obama consulted doctors for flu-like symptoms, but none of them tested positive for the swine flu.
Biden's remarks drew the ire of
the travel industry. The U.S. Travel Association immediately released a statement countering Biden's remarks, and advised people to listen to medical experts.
"Americans should heed the advice of medical experts when determining how best to manage health concerns during the ongoing swine flu outbreak. According to the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and countless other experts, swine flu should not discourage people from traveling to or within the United States," Roger Dow, president and chief executive of the association, said in the statement.
"Elected officials must strike a delicate balance of accurately and adequately informing citizens of health concerns without unduly discouraging travel and other important economic activity," he said.
Vice President Biden's comments, saying he would advise his family to stay away from airlines and confined spaces, drew the ire of the travel industry.
abcnews.go.com
Even
Dr. Peter Palese, a leading virologist at Mount Sinai Medical School, who can be a harsh critic of public policies he disagrees with, called the government’s overall response “excellent.”
About 10,000 people had died by mid-November, the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated; the pandemic seems unlikely to reach even the lower end of a forecast of 30,000 to 90,000 deaths made in August by the
President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology.
The virus and the vaccine cooperated. While the former proved highly transmissible in children, it was only rarely lethal, remained susceptible to drugs and has not thus far mutated into an unpredictable monster. Vaccine supply was a problem, but one small dose was enough.
Medical experts have found that a series of rapid but conservative decisions by federal officials worked out better than many had dared hope.
www.nytimes.com