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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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Trump's chloroquine push came after talk with one of his top supporters in the tech industry, Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison, source says.

nbcnews.com/politics/donal… via @nbcnews
The administration was pushing for a nationwide expanded access program that would provide chloroquine with limited physician oversight, the source said.

“Dr. Bright and his team were insisting upon a randomized controlled clinical study because there was insufficient
information on the benefit and the potential harms of the drug to patients with COVID-19," the source said. Implementing an Emergency Use Authorization to send the medication to the National Stockpile, the source said, was a compromise between the two positions.
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Important details here on how the virus strikes:
Many New Yorkers with COVID-19 waited too long to call 911. Why?

nbcnews.com/health/health-… via @nbcnews
As doctors' understanding of the disease improved, they discovered that many patients had greatly diminished lung capacity long before they displayed those serious symptoms that were supposed to make them call 911.

Klein said COVID-19 can cut lung capacity by as much as 50%
before a patient even knows it, like a form of "cryptic" pneumonia. People can feel sick but not short of breath.

"People are at home with these really low oxygen levels," he said, "and then they hit that tipping point, and it just gets beyond the point of return — in the case
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Elizabeth Warren’s oldest brother dies of coronavirus in Oklahoma

bostonglobe.com/2020/04/23/nat… via @BostonGlobe
Don Reed Herring lived with his wife, Judith Anne Hart, in Newcastle, Okla. before his death, in a small house amid wide fields.

According to information provided by his family, he had been diagnosed with cancer years ago and undergone treatment, and was hospitalized ..
for pneumonia in February. He then moved to a rehabilitation center to recover. The family did not identify the center.

Herring was moved to intensive care at Norman Regional Hospital on April 15 and died six days later. He was not on a ventilator.
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