Company Taking Over COVID Data May Not Be Up To The Task

Due to a Trump administration order earlier this month, thousands of hospitals will now bypass the CDC and instead funnel their COVID-19-related data to a Pittsburgh-based private technology firm that some experts say could be ill-equipped for the task.


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And what percentage of said firm does the Trump Crime Family own?

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Little-Known Company Taking Over COVID Data From CDC Might Fall Short, Experts Fear

The winner for the understatement headline of the decade!!

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I suspect falling short is the point.

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Company Taking Over COVID Data May Not Be Up To The Task

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Whoops, sorry

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So what patient specific information will this company have access to?

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Will be a first ballot selection into the Hall Of Fame of INTENTIONAL STUPIDITY beating out …

“Boxer announces he will train for big fight by eating nothing but Oreo Cookies and Pork Rinds!”

“Research Rocket to study the Sun will travel at night to avoid the Heat.”

“Donald Trump to start institution of higher learning - to call it Trump University”

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My guess is that there were two requirements for choosing this company.

  1. Have they donated to the Dotard’s campaign?
  2. Will they foul this up so that no one has any idea what is happening?
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Little-Known Company Taking Over COVID Data From CDC Might Fall Short*

It’s a feature, not a bug.

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… the best … only the very best …

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The more ill-equipped they are, the happier Trump will be.

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This is INSANE! Why aren’t we out on the streets protesting this? Everywhere? All over the country! Demanding that the CDC NOT be destroyed for political purposes.

Do not destroy the CDC and the NIH for political reasons. We need them! WTF?

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There’s obviously no good reason for doing this. Plenty of bad ones come to mind.

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Ill equipped? That’s the point, right?

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So when precisely did the Trumps and Kushners invest in this company?

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Trump said he would only hire the “best”?

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Besides the obvious suspicion of typical Trump corruption, the other possibility that arises is that Trump and his people don’t want the data to be reported on the assumption that if the bad news isn’t available at election time, then there’s really no pandemic - so, problem solved.

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I read somewhere that the company has a connection to Peter Thiel. Can’t find the reference now.

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Ah…well, that would explain much…

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