Warning over supply shortages for decades.

It seems supply shortage concerns for situations like this have been out there for sometime.
Federal agencies warned of ventilator shortages for nearly two decades | Fox News
From YOUR link

The Trump administration was also warned, as a June 2017 CDC report discussed the agency-managed Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) of ventilators, stating that “SNS ventilators might not suffice to meet demand during a severe public health emergency.”
I didn't absolve the Trump administration of their slow response not surprised that is where your mind went though. There are two points to the thread that you so clearly missed first when situations like this come to light they rarely if ever start with the President currently in office second it shows how ineffective the government buraeaucracuy can be in getting things done. You should really consider taking those partisan glasses you look at everything through off now and then.
 
Bottom line...you showed that this was a problem brought up to Trump nearly 3 years ago.
 
Bottom line...you showed that this was a problem brought up to Trump nearly 3 years ago.
This was a problem that was brought up to Bush for almost two terms and Obama for two terms and they did not deal with it either. Trump did not deal with it either when it was brought to him but it did not start with him as you and so many like you want to believe. This is the bottom line accept it or don't.
 
It seems supply shortage concerns for situations like this have been out there for sometime.
Federal agencies warned of ventilator shortages for nearly two decades | Fox News
Engineering teams already came up with 3D printed designs to maximize production of emergency supplies, also airbags that can substitute (UTMB doctors, Rice U students, among others), and doctors facing current shortages hooked up multiple tubes to the same Ventilators in order to treat 4 patients at a time or up to 9 as one doctor managed in Canada.

This sudden escalation caught everyone off guard, but given 1-2 months we could create jobs producing more cost effective equipment.

The real test is whether medical science can develop ensured immunity and a way to test if viral residue is infectious or not.

At worst, we would create greater demands and jobs in constant medical supervised care and response teams, and still build an entire economy around that!
 
As a nation we tend to react to a crisis instead of being proactive you can pnly prepare for so much even so we tend to wait till the shit hits the fan before getting into high gear doesn't seem to matter which party is in charge.

Great and Trump still spent weeks twiddling his tiny thumbs. Sure, China travel ban, then what?

 
As a nation we tend to react to a crisis instead of being proactive you can pnly prepare for so much even so we tend to wait till the shit hits the fan before getting into high gear doesn't seem to matter which party is in charge.

Great and Trump still spent weeks twiddling his tiny thumbs. Sure, China travel ban, then what?


Thank you for the standard partisan response I'm sure you felt the same about the response by the President during the H1N1 virus.
 
States ignored it as well. Other countries same.

Lead in water .......nobody cared until it reached up and bit them in the ass...........are the old lead pipes being replaced now..........at a greater rate than before ..........Nope.........

Are cities increasing the size of sewage lines as they can no longer hold the capacity and when it rains goes into the drain water system and push sewage into rivers.....

BP bribes States to allow a chemical to be used to sink oil and make tar balls.........Then we wonder ......WHERE DID THIS FLESH EATING BACTERIA COME FROM........

Ventilators...........IF it hits the fan.............NAH.........we will wait til it bites us in the ass.
 
Thank you for the standard partisan response I'm sure you felt the same about the response by the President during the H1N1 virus.

And this is why these things never get better or fixed, we are too busy as a country throwing our poop at the other side like a bunch of monkeys at the zoo.

We all know how I feel about Trump and there were some miss opportunities early on by this Admin, but the problem goes back far beyond this current crisis.

But we can never fix them once the current crisis is dealt with because are too damn busy hating the other side
 
As a nation we tend to react to a crisis instead of being proactive you can pnly prepare for so much even so we tend to wait till the shit hits the fan before getting into high gear doesn't seem to matter which party is in charge.
Trump administration sent protective medical gear to China while he minimized the virus threat to US

Concerns about a dwindling supply of PPE are not new. Back on February 7, the World Health Organization sounded alarm bells about "the limited stock of PPE," noting demand was 100 times higher than normal for this equipment.
Yet the same day as the WHO warning, the Trump administration announced that it was transporting to China nearly 17.8 tons (more than 35,000 pounds) of "masks, gowns, gauze, respirators, and other vital materials." As Secretary of State Mike Pompeo noted in the press release announcing this shipment, "These donations are a testament to the generosity of the American people."
 
As a nation we tend to react to a crisis instead of being proactive you can pnly prepare for so much even so we tend to wait till the shit hits the fan before getting into high gear doesn't seem to matter which party is in charge.

Great and Trump still spent weeks twiddling his tiny thumbs. Sure, China travel ban, then what?


Thank you for the standard partisan response I'm sure you felt the same about the response by the President during the H1N1 virus.


No, I have a much different response when I'm faced with competence.
 
Prior to Covid-19, Trump was Spending More than Any President in US History & FAILED to Keep US Safe!!! Just like Bush who ignored his PDBs. Trump had 3 months warning to prepare, China had none. Covid-19 has killed more US citizens than 9/11 & Pearl Harbor attacks. Now we are 6 times the infection rate of China & 3 times their death rate! Now Trump's Spending & FAILURE are unhinged! Republicans love to allow disasters to happen so they "never allow a good crisis to go to waste!" That way they can throw massive $ trillions tax dollars out to all their friends.
 
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IN 2016, AFTER years of effort and millions of dollars in government investment, a team of Texas scientists finally developed a promising vaccine for SARS, the deadly strain of coronavirus that had infected over 8,000 people worldwide in the early 2000s. But the outbreak that triggered the research had begun and ended, and no one was contracting new cases of the disease anymore. Private industry and governments responded to the request to fund the human clinical trials with unanimity: not interested. And so the SARS vaccine was shelved. “If investments had been made previously, we potentially could have a [coronavirus] vaccine ready to go now,” lead scientist Dr. Peter Hotez told Congress earlier this month.


In August 2010, prompted by the vaccine problems from H1N1, President Barack Obama’s team of science advisers released a report outlining ways the government could speed up production in the future. This had come a year after Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, successfully stripped $870 million in flu pandemic preparation money out of the 2009 stimulus. The administration recommended spending roughly $1 billion per year for the next several years to implement its ideas, which included developing faster potency tests and better machines to do vial-filling. This joined a separate 2010 HHS review, which had concluded that the U.S. “lacks the domestic manufacturing capacity to rapidly produce and package a vaccine for the American public in the face of a pandemic.”

But many of those Obama-era proposals were never fully executed, and four new vaccine manufacturing sites the federal government did invest in beginning in 2012 have barely been utilized to respond to Covid-19.
 
Good thread.

The next crisis may be one where the shortage is saline solution, insulin, or erythromycin. You cannot war-game for every scenario.
Would you think what the taxpayer shells out there would be enough reserve supplies of most products.
 
Good thread.

The next crisis may be one where the shortage is saline solution, insulin, or erythromycin. You cannot war-game for every scenario.
Would you think what the taxpayer shells out there would be enough reserve supplies of most products.
Back in my day when I did emergency response, the Feds had two distinct and separate pools of supplies.

The SNS or Strategic National Stockpile which was the basic stuff you’d need for any hazard. In this there would be gloves, masks, pens, clipboards, etc. it was about 250,000 pounds all together and could be deployed in 12 hours.

Then there was threat-specific VMI or Vendor Managed Inventories. These were quantities the vendors agreed to keep on hand for emergency use before selling them. Ansell, for example, would agree to keep 800,000 units of large nitrile gloves on hand that Uncle Sam could poach whenever it wanted. The 800K would change over time due to spoilage or expiration dates but they would produce and house it.

I’m not sure what the plan is now as far as resources go.
 

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