The filing, which was seen by the Washington Post and New York Times, was submitted by a senior official in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) who said she was improperly re-assigned after raising her concerns and threatened with being fired if she did not comply.
According to the two newspapers, the incidents were in relation to two California air force bases, Travis and March. More than a dozen workers were sent to each site. AFP
As cases of COVID-19 continue to spike around the world, the CDC warned on Tuesday that Americans should prepare for the likelihood that the coronavirus
will eventually spread here. Amid escalating outbreaks outside of
China, it’s clear that there has been undetected transmission of the
virus from countries with which the U.S. has not restricted travel.
While there has not been a corresponding spike in cases within the U.S.,
many health experts are warning the coronavirus may already be here.
That remains an unknown though — in no small part because the U.S. has
done very little testing for the virus. And thanks to problems at the
CDC, including the distribution of a faulty test kit for the
coronavirus, it’s not clear when the country’s testing capacity will
improve.
“We’re testing everybody that we need to test,” President Trump insisted on Wednesday during his first press conference on the coronavirus. He’s almost certainly wrong....
According to the CDC, 445 people have been tested for the virus as of February 25, resulting in 15 confirmed coronavirus infections, including two cases resulting from person-to-person spread, and one case of unknown origin. Those totals only include cases detected and laboratory-tested inside the U.S.....NY Intelligencer
The above comments from two American media sources said something very typical of the USA, the accidental country. They are fumbling along with the way they are handling the Covid19 pandemic. bad gear, bad protocol, bad test kits, no test kits and a disinterested attitude in testing Americans for infection by the Covid19.
But all will turn out well like in the past in this accidental country. Luck is on their side....question is for how long. The USA has been thrusted to become the most powerful and richest country in the world for nearly a century. When would their luck run out and bring them down on their knees as they fumbled along from accident to accident and coming up on top?
If the end of the Empire is near, this Covid19 could be an accident too far. The numbers of affected cases in the USA is low, only 60 plus, not because it is low but because they were not testing them, just like H1N1. They still did not know the truth and the truth could be very ugly. And recent cases in the USA are indigenous, with no known contact with imported cases.
Or maybe their tidak apa attitude is due to the fact that they already have the vaccine and have no cause to be alarm and to panic.Or is it that they know the virus is all over the USA and it is better not to test, better not to know?
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Scientists have identified different strains of the Covid-19 virus, expressed in layman terms: the grandpa, grandma, father, son.
The strain found in Wuhan is the “son” only whereas the strains found in Taiwan and Australia are two (which two not announced).
Now Italy has found the Covid-19 virus strain in her patient not to be from Wuhan (refer to link:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1249449/Coronavirus-news-scientists-isolate-Italy-strain-COVID19-latest-coronavirus-update).
Some TV program said all the four strains are found in US. This has led them to say that the source of Covid-19 could well be US, not China Wuhan!
And, more people in US could have died of Covid-19 but were mistaken as H1N1 since there have been no test of those patients before they died.
A certain TV program also highlighted that in Oct last year there was a military event in Wuhan and two US Army guys were sick with fever before they return home at the end of the event end Oct last year.
Draw your own conclusion.
The scientists in China have discovered that the corona-virus in Wuhan did not originate from Wuhan Wild Life market as suggested earlier. The virus was imported from somewhere else. This fact has now been established.
The fingers must now point back at those who were quick to point a finger at China in order to demonize China and the Chinese.
New research has shed fresh light on the origins of the deadly coronavirus.
Coronavirus did not originate in Wuhan seafood market, Chinese scientists say.
Analysis of genomic data from 93 samples of the novel coronavirus suggests it was imported from elsewhere.
The busy market then boosted its circulation and spread it to the whole city, research shows.
The novel coronavirus that has claimed the lives of more than 2,400 people did not originate at a seafood market in the central China city of Wuhan as was first thought, according to a new study by a team of Chinese scientists.
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was instead imported from elsewhere, said researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Institute for Brain Research.
The team, led by Dr Yu Wenbin, sequenced the genomic data of 93 SARS-CoV-2 samples provided by 12 countries in a bid to track down the source of the infection and understand how it spreads.
What they found was that while the virus had spread rapidly within the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, there had also been two major population expansions on December 8 and January 6.
According to the study, which was published on the institute’s website on Thursday, analysis suggested that the coronavirus was introduced from outside the market.
“The crowded market then boosted SARS-CoV-2 circulation and spread it to the whole city in early December 2019,” it said.
Earlier reports by Chinese health authorities and the World Health Organisation said that the first known patient showed symptoms on December 8, and that most of the subsequent cases had links to the seafood market, which was closed on January 1.
The research went on to say that based on the genome data it was possible that the virus began spreading from person to person in early December or even as early as late November.
“The study concerning whether Huanan market is the only birthplace of SARS-CoV-2 is of great significance for finding its source and determining the intermediate host, so as to control the epidemic and prevent it from spreading again,” the research team said.
The scientists said also that although China’s National Centre for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Level 2 emergency warning about the new coronavirus on January 6, the information was not widely shared.
“If the warning had attracted more attention, the number of cases both nationally and globally in mid-to-late January would have been reduced,” they said.
Meanwhile, Xiang Nijuan, a researcher at the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, said in an interview with state broadcaster CCTV on Saturday that people infected with the new coronavirus were contagious two days before they showed any symptoms.
Therefore anyone who had been in close contact with someone within 48 hours of them being confirmed as infected should put themselves in isolation for 14 days, he said.
@ ALL
America is the longest running human experiment,so they'll always be "fumbling along" die-die doing things their way, resulting in monumental success, EPIC failures and a whole lot of Nothing Burgers.
One thing is for sure, their government consistently fails in everything from domestic policy to foreign policy. And so the cuntry keeps "fumbling along" and the experiment is still going strong despite massive cock-ups, expensive failures, unforseen "knock-on effects (negative externalities).
so it won't be any surprise to me if Mike Pence and his team fuck up massively dealing with the coronvirus outbreak.
The reason America can mitigate the negative effects of inept Federal Governments is because a significant number of Yanks don't trust their govt. and will act INDIVIDUALLY to counter, or to create new opportunities to PROFIT from the cock-ups of The State.
And so these individuals evolved a huge PRIVATE SECTOR which produces everything, and supplies everyone---including the Federal Govt.
The American private sector is extremely ROBUST. Massive failures have failed to derail the free enterprise system. GM, Enron, Lehman, Authur Andersen, Savings & Loan...and many others have failed spectacularly, with widespread devastation...and yet, the free enterprise system keeps on producing wealth.
Back in the 1980's some fella wrote a book called "Dow Thirty Thousand". Everyone thought this guy was nuts and he was widely ridiculed.
This week a lot of people shat their pants, whilst others bought up big when the Dow fell below 30,000. Will it get back and go higher?
I think so! Will the govt cock up dealing with the coronavirus? Of course it will!
Error: The book mentioned was
"Dow 36,000" by Glassman & others, and is ridiculed as one othe WORST investment books ever written
matilah
I'm surprised to see that you are still healthy.
I thot you would have met with a terrible car accident by now.
WSJ : China is the real sick mam of Asia. Peter Navorro : China is a disease incubator. Karma has a way of settlimg scores. And when this hit the fan in US, guess who should be laughing though I don't think they will
Perhaps they are already prepared - the antidote is secretly anticipated and ready, to fit the crime. Don't let anyone know, otherwise the cat is out of the bag!
Trump is no stranger to failure. Six times bankrupt and yet he can become POTUS. One time bankrupt is excusable and probably due to circumstances, but six times makes you wonder whether that is really by circumstances or by choice.
If China had that kind of President, can you guess what the MSM of the West will say?
@ 1052, buay tahan arsehole kena pluck:
>> These white bastards would keep pointing fingers at China and many stupids would eventually believe in their white lies. <<
Eh, kotek. The West has plenty of hard evidence to back up many of their claims lah.
I'll agree that they hantam a little here and there, but their analysis of three situation is a good approximation...good enough to paint a reasonable picture so everyone can get a reasonable idea to make their reasonable choices.
You view is one-sided and not backed up by JACK SCHITT lah.
@ Virgo
>>Draw your own conclusion.<<
Yah right. Draw an "accurate conclusion" from a certain TV program.
No wonder ignorant people die sooner.
Why go to school or University or the library? What for... Just watch TV, Especially a "certain TV program" and you'll have all the knowledge and wisdom.
Fucking ignorant kotek.
The fact that you all are here TCSS is SOLID PROOF that PAPies have done an OUTSTANDING JOB in managing this virus. Otherwise you'll be too busy trying to maintain your jobs and going for panic supermarket runs to even turn on your handphone browser app.
By Aug when this virus thing becomes UNIMPORTANT NEWS, the PAPies can expect to be getting 75% in the next GE.
As for US, their local govt & local official apparatuses are too fragmented & under-funded. Each state & each city & each county are operating & doing things on their own or their own way. There is limited central policy for infection controls & procedures. Own time own target. They will trial & error they way through. But 1 thing is that they learn fast & adapt those things that work. And each state & each city will copy quickly from others that work.
In a way this virus is a blessing to the US CDC --- Trump totally gutted it when he became president by slashing its budget & getting rid of many scientists and researchers there. They will get big budget boost for the next 3 years at least.
Yah, right. Going to get out of the elite uncaring face from today. Not worth my time to come here and TCSS so that shameless people can use this to claim that they are doing a good job fighting the virus.
Aiyo..anon 102.. we here tcss cos we dare not step outside to go geylang n hotel 81 la.. your fucking 2c worth of opinion doesn't gel with ground reality..
....))))
TV programe is the News Reporting of the Real Happenings lah kotek!
You think a friction story?
Hi Anon.
Thought one video of a car accident in AussLand of a Pariah with one thigh leg on the side of grass verge and another on the main road and a head of a CCheng fully severed in the car with the body on top of car bonnet. Cannot see them two ding dongs. Maybe already eaten by the wombats.
This is not Matilah?
Cheers
Matilah is ah neh . . .
Yes, you are right. Matilah is ah neh, chap cheng.
This blog is now dominated and taken over by an ah neh who talks cock all the time in order to influence your thinking.
And if you are critical or disagree or expose his wayward behaviour, he will resort to smearung you with his usual vulgarities and low-life adhominium attacks, and labelling you with insulting names and remarks.
It is sad that this has happened here. Why? How? When? Who?
Australians are the most shia suay on Earth to small-boy CCS?
Coronavirus 'panic buying' hits Australia. Experts urge the public to remain calm as some supermarkets are stripped of essential items. They even hoard toilet papers and one lorry-load just go burnt by angry mobs.
See here:
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-australia-51702409/coronavirus-panic-buying-australians-clear-supermarket-shelves
All those who fled from Spore to Perth in the 70s, the same time as this Matilah Singapura are either chap cheng or ah nehs. So it is not far from the truth to say this twit is a chap cheng or ah neh.
Remember the saying, between an ah neh and a snake, which to kill first? One ah neh told me China cannot be trusted, ie all Chinese cannot be trusted. What about the snake and the ah neh?
Fox News host Jesse Watters blatantly asked the Chinese for "a formal apology" because "this coronavirus originated in China."
His cohost asked, "What if the outbreak had started here [the US]?"
Watters asserted that the epidemic started in China. He even stated in his show, "They are very hungry people. The Chinese communist government cannot feed the people, and they are desperate. This food is uncooked. It's unsafe, and that is why scientists believe that's where it originated."
The Communist Party of China "cannot feed the people" so that Chinese have no choice but to eat "raw bats and snakes." Is this how a popular American host sees China?
Watters' complete and utter nonsense on the TV show makes people wonder how distorted US public opinion is against China. It seems that if one scolds China, he does not need to beat his brains or use common sense at all; he can talk as tough as he wants of China without being held accountable.
Imagine that a Chinese host demanded a formal apology from the US people on a TV show after the 2009 H1N1 flu spread to the world from the US, or after AIDS, a disease reportedly first tracked in North America, became a global epidemic.
When would the white American bastards be struck down by lightning? White God will protect them in their evilness.
Matilah would agree with the Fox's idiotic racist cunt and claim that it is freedom of expression, even as a news provider telling lies over the air.
@ RB
That's exactly right.
Freedom of speech/ expression is the freedom so say whatever the fuck you want. Unless you're under contract to tell the truth, you can lie your ass off.
You are free to be an asshole. And others are free to judge you and choose to associate or shun you.
That's exactly right.
Freedom of speech/ expression is the freedom so say whatever the fuck you want, even lies. And if you're under contract to tell lies, you can lie your ass off.
Matilah, this should be your version of truth and freedom of expression.
@ Redbean,
Don't give up your day job. 😎
Nathan Rich's reply to that Dotard Jesse Watters.
https://youtu.be/HNWOhzNI060
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