How Jared Kushner’s Secret Testing Plan “Went Poof Into Thin Air” | Vanity Fair vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/h…
Shouldn’t we be screaming abt this at the top of our lungs?
The solutions it proposed weren’t rocket science—
But no nationally coordinated testing strategy was ever announced.
— like everything else w this administration—
We are just wks away from dangerous & controversial 🏫 reopenings & the looming fall 🤒 season,...
Without systematic testing, “We might as well put duct tape over our 👀, cotton in our👂🏼, & hide under the 🛌,” ...
Tho #traitorTrump likes to trumpet America’s sheer number of tests, that metric does not acct for the speed of results or the response to them, said Dr. June-Ho Kim
With no bankable nat’l plan, the effort to create 1 has fallen to a network of high-level civilians & nongovernmental organizations.
“We know what has 2b done: broad & ubiquitous testing tied to broad & effective contact tracing,”
Kushner’s brain trust incl’d Adam Boehler, his summer college roommate who now serves as CEO of the newly created US Int’l Dev Finance Corp, a gov devmt bank
A Morgan Stanley banker w no notable health care exp, Jason Yeung took a leave of absence to join the task force
The group’s collective lack of relevant exp was far from the only challenge it faced. The obstacles arrayed against any effective national testing effort included:
..got it
So where’s #ourstockpile ?
As it evolved, Kushner’s grp called on the help of sev top diagnostic-testing experts. Together, they worked arnd the ⏰, & thru a forest of WhatsApp messages.
Kushner’s team hammered out a detailed plan, which Vanity Fair obtained. It stated, “Current challenges that need to be resolved incl uneven testing capacity
The plan called for the fed gov to coordinate distribution of test kits,
SO IN OTHER WORDS, #GrifterInChief lost interest & didnt care
?¿? Srsly? This is EXACTLY what we thought was happening!!
SO IF Kushner HAS any friends left in NY, HERES what he 💭 of u!
On April 27, Trump stepped to a podium in the Rose Garden, flanked by membs of his coronavirus task force & leaders of America’s big comm testing labs...
It soon became clear that ceding testing responsibility to the states was a recipe for disaster, not just in Democratic-governed areas but across the country.
IM 😡 AS HELL AND I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!
THIS MOTHERFUCKER NEEDS TO BE PUT IN JAIL!!!
THIS IS A MAJOR DEAL! THIS NEEDS TO BE TALKED ABOUT! Where the HELL is @maddow when you need her! @JoyAnnReid @NicolleDWallace @AliVelshi @Lawrence i guess we need to count on y’all to talk abt it!
Phoenix found itself in a catch-22, which the city’s gov relations mgr explained to lawyers in an April 21 email obtained by Vanity Fair thru a publ records request:
Gallego’s own staff members were waiting 2 wks to get back test results, a period in which they cld have bn unwittingly transmitting the 🦠.
By July 5, Gallego was out of patience.
We were told they’re moving away from that, which feels like they’re declaring victory while we’re still in crisis mode.”
On April 21, the Rockefeller Foundation released a detailed plan for what it described as the “largest public health testing prog in American history,” a massive scale-up from roughly 1M tests a wk at the time to 3M/wk by June & 30M by the fall.
An FDA spokesperson told Vanity Fair the tests may have bn rendered ineffective bec of how they were stored when they were shipped from the ME.
Although officials w FEMA and HHS wld not acknowledge that the tests even exist, stating only that there was no official gov contract for them, the UAE’s records are clear enuf.