Former Obama CDC Director Says NY Death Toll Could have Been 80% Lower if State Acted Sooner

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Former Obama CDC Director Says NY Death Toll Could have Been 80% Lower if State Acted Sooner
 By Steve Straub
Published April 10, 2020 at 8:40am

Former CDC Director under President Obama said that New York state and New York City coronavirus deaths could have been dramatically lower had the mayor and governor acted sooner to impose social distancing and other measure.

This totally explains why De Blasio has been so insistent on blaming President Trump for the number of NYC deaths, it’s to hide his own culpability.

Via NY Upstate:

“The former director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says New York could have reduced the number of deaths from coronavirus by up to 80% if it acted sooner.

Tom Frieden, who also previously served as commissioner of the New York City Health Department, tells The New York Times that the Empire State should have closed schools and non-essential businesses two weeks earlier than it did and begun social distancing at the beginning of March.

“Flu was coming down, and then you saw this new ominous spike. And it was COVID. And it was spreading widely in New York City before anyone knew it,” Dr. Frieden told the newspaper. “You have to move really fast. Hours and days. Not weeks. Once it gets a head of steam, there is no way to stop it.”

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https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/former-obama-cdc-director-says-ny-death-toll-80-lower-state-acted-sooner

[dfwgator]

Would have been even lower if the CDC under Obama had focused on things other than fighting Climate Change, and applied the lessons learned from the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Not just New York....


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[Right_in_Virginia]

In hindsight, we should have locked down NY's airports, bridges and trains ---

[musiclady]

Would have been even lower if the CDC under Obama had focused on things other than fighting Climate Change, and applied the lessons learned from the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic.

Amen!  And replenished the supplies deleted by H1N1.

DiBlasio and Cuomo should be fired on the spot, but the Dems who elected them are too stupid to realize it.

[Gemmarose]

In hindsight, we should have locked down NY's airports, bridges and trains ---

The wise say hindsight is 20/20 I find it fitting that it is happening in the year 2020 as well but I am a numbers person