Incompetent Trump: Special Report: How Korea trounced U.S. in race to test people for coronavirus

[BeckyDem]

Chad Terhune, Dan Levine, Hyunjoo Jin, Jane Lanhee Lee

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SEOUL - In late January, South Korean health officials summoned representatives from more than 20 medical companies from their lunar New Year celebrations to a conference room tucked inside Seoul’s busy train station.

One of the country’s top infectious disease officials delivered an urgent message: South Korea needed an effective test immediately to detect the novel coronavirus, then running rampant in China. He promised the companies swift regulatory approval.

Though there were only four known cases in South Korea at that point, “we were very nervous. We believed that it could develop into a pandemic,” one attendee, Lee Sang-won, an infectious diseases expert at the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told Reuters.

“We acted like an army,” he said.

A week after the Jan. 27 meeting, South Korea’s CDC approved one company’s diagnostic test. Another company soon followed. By the end of February, South Korea was making headlines around the world for its drive-through screening centers and ability to test thousands of people daily.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-testing-specialrep/special-report-how-korea-trounced-u-s-in-race-to-test-people-for-coronavirus-idUSKBN2153BW?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=twitter

[bullwinkle428]

1. I heard the first case in each country was diagnosed on the SAME DAY.

And how many times has Pence used the phrase "private-public partnership" in his daily briefings? It's like he gets extra pats on the head and another Milk Bone from Trump on each occasion. South Korea produced a perfect blueprint for how this kind of partnership should work. So why aren't we using it?

[BeckyDem]

2. We have had no good luck with Trump. His own kids and grandkids could be infected and

instead of being aggressive to combat the virus, he fucking denies and tweets.

[bullwinkle428]

3. Didn't he attempt to deny health insurance coverage to his own nephew, who

is a special-needs patient? What kind of human garbage would do something like that?

[BeckyDem]

4. I'm not aware of that one. ugh if true.

[dalton99a]

6. Yep. He admitted doing it out of revenge:

https://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/trumps-bitter-battle-nephew-ailing-baby-caught-middle-article-1.888562

INSIDE TRUMPS' BITTER BATTLE
Nephew's ailing baby caught in the middle
Even when it comes to a sick baby in his family, Donald Trump is all business. The megabuilder and his siblings Robert and Maryanne terminated their nephew's family medical coverage a week after he challenged the will of their father, Fred Trump. "This was so shocking, so disappointing and so vindictive," said niece Lisa Trump, whose son, William, was born 18 months ago at Mount Sinai Medical Center with a rare neurological disorder that produces violent seizures, brain damage and medical bills topping $300,000. The Trump family feud has come to light in recent days as the dispute over Fred Trump's estate is being played out in Queens Surrogate Court. The patriarch left between $100 million and $300 million, according to different family estimates.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/donald-trumps-cruel-streak/501554/
Donald Trump's Cruel Streak

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/trump-files-donald-sick-infant-medical-care/
The Trump Files: When Donald Took Revenge by Cutting Off Health Coverage for a Sick Infant

[dalton99a]

5. Time is of the essence, and we are still in a clusterfuck