Harris blasts Trump's handling of pandemic during first appearance with Biden as his running matehttps://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/harris-blasts-trumps-handling-pandemic-during-first-appearance-bidensIn her remarks Harris blasted President Trump's handling of the coronavirus crisis.
"This virus has impacted almost every country," Harris said. "But there's a reason it has hit America worse than any other advanced nation. It's because of Trump's failure to take it seriously from the start — his refusal to get testing up and running; his flip-flopping on social distancing and wearing masks; his delusional belief that he knows better than the experts — all of that is reason, and the reason that an American dies of COVID-19 every 80 seconds. It's why countless businesses have had to shut their doors for good. It's why there is complete chaos over when and how to reopen our schools."
The Dem-controlled House didn't hold a hearing on Covid-19 during the whole month of January, and forced the entire Senate to waste the second half of January and several days of February with the Dems'
shampeachment.
Meanwhile, in January, Trump and his Administration:
January 6, 2020 - CDC issued a Level 1 travel notice for Wuhan, China;
https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2020/01/cdc-issues-level-1-watch-travel-notice.htmlJanuary 7, 2020 - CDC established a coronavirus incident management system;
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/videos/coronavirus/COVID-19-webinar.pdfJanuary 8, 2020 - CDC alert to clinicians to ask patients with "severe respiratory illness" whether they had traveled to Wuhan;
https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/han00424.aspJanuary 17, 2020 - The US started screening arriving passengers from China; JFK, SFO, LAX
https://www.businessinsider.com/new-disease-virus-china-us-airports-screening-cdc-2020-1 ; O'Hare and Hartsfield-Jackson
January 22, 2020 -
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/01/21/us-screenings-coronavirus-expanded-airports-atlanta-chicago/January 20, 2020 - CDC activated its emergency operations center;
https://emergency.cdc.gov/recentincidents/index.asp?cid=EPR-homepageJanuary 22, 2020 - US CDC issues a “(Travel) Watch Level 2 Alert (Practice Enhanced Precautions)†for the pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus;
https://china.usembassy-china.org.cn/health-alert-update-novel-coronavirus-in-china-3/January 22, 2020 - Pharmaceuticals company Moderna working with US government to develop vaccine;
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/22/moderna-is-working-on-a-vaccine-for-chinas-deadly-coronavirus.html ,
https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/moderna-announces-funding-award-cepi-accelerate-developmentJanuary 27, 2020 - US CDC issues highest-level travel health notice, Level 3, recommending that travelers avoid all nonessential travel to China; State Department raises its own travel advisory for all of China to Level 3 of 4, urging U.S. citizens to “reconsider travelâ€, while retaining its Level 4 travel advisory for Hubei Province;
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/s0128-travelers-avoid-china.html ,
https://china.usembassy-china.org.cn/travel-alert-level-4-do-not-travel-to-hubei/January 28, 2020 - AbCellera is mobilizing its pandemic response platform against the outbreak of Covid-19;
Since 2018, under the DARPA Pandemic Prevention Platform (P3) program, AbCellera has been leading a team of partners to establish a platform for pandemic response capable of developing field-ready medical countermeasures within 60 days of isolation of an unknown viral pathogen;
https://www.abcellera.com/news/2020-01-abcellera-mobilizing-a-response-to-novel-coronavirusJanuary 29, 2020 - White House announced the formation of the Coronavirus Task Force;
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/480627-white-house-announces-task-force-to-monitor-coronavirusJanuary 31, 2020 - Trump declared a public health emergency;
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/delta-suspends-us-flights-china-amid-coronavirus/story?id=68666037January 31, 2020 - State Department raised the travel advisory for China to Level 4, do not travel;
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-flight-ban-delta-cuts-all-flights-white-house/4620989002/January 31, 2020 - People entering the US from China forbidden; Announced January 31, effective February 2;
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/02/us/coronavirus-us-travel-restrictions/index.htmlThat is cherry-picked a bit, and doesn't include the context of China's and WHO's deception, the first of health officials of Dem-controlled cities & counties advices to continue with normal public activities, and the first of Democrats' denunciations of Trump's travel ban. Al that and much more can be found in the US timeline linked in my signature.
As for Kammy's lie about testing:
January 23, 2020 - CDC sought “special emergency authorization†from FDA to allow states to use its coronavirus test;
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-cdc-idUSKBN1ZM2XSFebruary 6, 2020 - Shipping of CDC 2019 coronavirus test kits begins;
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p0206-coronavirus-diagnostic-test-kits.htmlUnfortunately, these tests were defective. An investigation found that the CDC lab in Atlanta had screwed up in how it set up it manufacturing line, resulting in cross-contamination with other activities in the lab. To recover from this:
February 29, 2020 - Testing labs allowed to use tests whose FDA Emergency Use Authorization requests are still pending;
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-issues-new-policy-help-expedite-availability-diagnosticsAll in all, the Dems'
Trump-Did-Nothing narrative is easily shown to be false. And in a couple of months the release or impending release of one or more fully tested vaccines will force Dems to answer (or dodge), "Where did that come from?" questions. And if they try to claim the vaccines are untested, they'll have multiple companies defending their products with facts in addition to responses from the Trump Campaign.
