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In mid-Feb, the WHO warned that global demand for medical safety gear was 100 times higher than normal, prices were 20 times higher, stockpiles were depleted, and there was a 6 month backlog. Despite this, the US government made no effort to submit orders. apnews.com/6d9382c1e8ee36…
Trump's trade policies haven’t helped. Tariffs on medical supplies made them more expensive, and they were only lifted on March 5, even though health care associations asked the Trump administration LAST YEAR to exempt items like masks, gloves, and gowns.
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Polly Sigh
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Cut the bullshit. No one is claiming that Rand Paul went to the gym *after* learning his test results, but that he we spreading his coronavirus germs all over the gym, pool area, and god knows where else, while waiting for his results –– which is a major dick move.
Rand Paul's Chief Strategist, @dougstafford, on March 16: "So people can’t eat out but can go to the gym where they expel bodily fluid and touch things other people just touched. Ok."
.@RandPaul got tested SIX OR SEVEN DAYS AGO but continued going to Senate lunches, the Senate gym, the Senate pool, and wherever the hell else he hangs out, exposing staffers, security guards, waiters, coffee baristas, and god knows who else to coronavirus.
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Polly Sigh
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Sen. Rand Paul has tested positive for the coronavirus.

Rand Paul was the only senator to vote against a bipartisan $8B deal to provide emergency coronavirus funding earlier this month.axios.com/rand-paul-coro…
Rand Paul, who has tested positive for coronavirus, attended the GOP Senate lunch on Friday.

He was asymptotic, so I wonder how many GOP Senators came in close contact with him without realizing they could be infected?
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Polly Sigh
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NEW: US intelligence agencies were issuing ominous, classified warnings in Jan and Feb about a likely global coronavirus pandemic as Trump and GOP lawmakers called the virus a hoax and failed to take action that might have slowed its spread and saved lives.washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
By January, “the system was blinking red” but “Trump’s advisers struggled to get him to take coronavirus seriously.”

Azar spoke to Trump about the virus on Jan 18 but “Trump interjected to ask when flavored vaping products would be back on the market.”
“US intel reports painted an early picture of a virus that showed characteristics of a globe-encircling pandemic that required governments to take swift actions to contain it.

But Trump continued to play down the threat coronavirus posed to Americans.”washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
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Eric Umansky
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Read this paragraph.

In mid-Feb, the WHO warned that shipments of personal protective equipment was seriously lagging. There was a months-long backlog.

And yet:”Federal contracting data shows there was no big effort at that point to submit orders.”

apnews.com/6d9382c1e8ee36…
A window into what the admin *is* doing:

Last week, Pence said construction firms should donate masks to hospitals.

So a group called the WH for deets.

First they couldn't get through.

Then they were told that they *shouldn't donate to hospitals*

propublica.org/article/white-…
The admin also put out a general request *last week* for manufacturers to help. It didn't give any specifics on what companies can do.

"This is seems like the wrong scale of effort by orders of magnitude,” one expert told us.

propublica.org/article/white-…
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🚨 #Safety #culture tweet thread 🚨

Invited by @SafetyClubUK on behalf of @SaRSociety (thanks teams !) I’ve just had a thought provoking day thinking about all aspects of safety culture, across #healthcare #aviation #defence #transport #nuclear
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#Medical #AI researchers: badly performed/described cross-validation is the most common reason I recommend major revisions as a reviewer.

CV can be used to tune models and to estimate performance, but not on the same data. See this diagram for doing both.

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