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👉Dr. Desai hammered these facts:

--US/S. Korea saw 1st coronavirus case same day: Jan. 20.
--US/S. Korea had *same* data from China at *same* time.

*US and S. Korea responded v differently w different results*
Of course, Dr. Desai & other medical experts appear frustrated:

"The delayed and chaotic testing in the United States will cost lives, potentially including those of doctors and nurses, many medical experts predict."

reuters.com/article/us-hea…
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The government had 20 years to prep for a pandemic, and still failed

nbcnews.com/politics/natio… via @nbcnews
No large volunteer medical reserve corps
Did not build surplus hospital capacity, or
Create system to quickly produce & deploy virus tests.

"Public health has been a stepchild in American healthcare for probably 30 or 40 years, and we have undernourished it and underappreciated
it," said Michael Leavitt, a former Utah governor who served as secretary of Health and Human Services in the Bush administration.
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How Did the U.S. End Up with Nurses Wearing Garbage Bags?
"What they did not foresee was that the federal government might never come to the rescue."

newyorker.com/news/letter-fr… via
The first large U.S. government order to the big U.S. producer 3M, for a hundred and seventy-three million dollars’ worth of N95 masks, was not placed until March 21st.
...

All of this was predicted. On February 13th, the Center for Global Development, a nonpartisan Washington
think tank, warned in a report about the “urgent but closing window” for the U.S. government to prepare, , including specifically recommending an immediate review of the P.P.E. supply chain;
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NEW from Gallup:
Conservative only vs. liberal only "news media diet"
-57% vs 28% blv COVID no more deadly than flu. (FALSE)
-71% vs 28% blv media paying too much atten.
-94% vs 11% blv Trump doing great job.

conserv: Fox, Breitbart, OAN, Nat Review
liberal: MSNBC, NYT, CNN, Vox
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