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.@ScottGottliebMD has done tremendous work educating us and so this is quite a remarkable take. He is an FDA expert. I listened to whole interview as I thought the tweet might be misleading; "when history looks back," I do not think that the takeaway is the WH was failed. 1/
No one had any concept of the extent of the spread of the virus, but that was because so few governors, mayors, local public health officials (the homeland) were paying attention because the WH wasn't pushing a testing (it rejected WHO's offer), surveillance or other systems. 2/
Let's be clear here: our pandemic planning, which was shelved by the WH, has monitoring and surveillance as the primary responsbilityof a WH and federal government. The minute Trump heard of #COVID19, that system should have been up to help local efforts. 3/
