Members Of CDC Advisory Panel Slammed Trump Admin Move To Divert COVID Data | Talking Points Memo

Current and former members of a committee that advises the Centers for Disease controlled slammed the decision last month to divert the collection of COVID-19 hospital data away from the CDC and to a private company.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1325700

More insane every day.

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By design.

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Nobody makes these kinds of changes on short notice for good reason. Normally you plan, test, run the systems in parallel, and announce the switchover far in advance. Pure corruption.

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It really doesn’t make sense, to go system wide without a test run from a few states first.
Plus it seems to show that Alex Azar had no idea of the time it took for the hospitals to compile the info to send.

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Because someone loves their pandemic numbers to be low…
Better yet, that someone wants to magically disappear or ignore those pandemic numbers to win re-election!

AND

https://twitter.com/jgeltzer/status/1293639631016206340

When Trump doesn’t like COVID numbers, he stops testing.
When Trump doesn’t like census numbers, he stops counting.
When Trump doesn’t like vote tallies, he stops the mail from delivering them.
& when Trump doesn’t like intelligence, he stops listening:

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“We are extremely concerned about this abrupt change in COVID-19 reporting,” the health experts said. “Retiring NHSN’s COVID-19 surveillance system will have serious consequences on data integrity.”

Well then, exactly how do you expect Trumpty Dumpty to improve his numbers?
You expect him to be truthful?
You expect him to take honorable action to directly address the pandemic?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
:rofl:

The Dotard does not care if there are 15, or 15,000 or 15 million infected.
The number of dead are of no importance to him.
The only reason he wants tinier numbers is to reduce the noise about the numbers.
He takes no responsibility for any of it and he’s doing a perfectly masterful job.
It’s all your fault. Every one of you.
After all, you’re all the filthy people who are getting sick.
Therefore he deserves reelection.
Because it’s all your fault.

Because you elected him in the first place.
It’s the logic of a madman.

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Reported coronavirus deaths yesterday:
• France: 0
• United Kingdom: 0
• Canada: 4
• Germany: 6
• Italy: 6
• United States: 1,450https://t.co/ZqucXYl6sT pic.twitter.com/OzRNvFsE7P

— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) August 12, 2020
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Breaking News: UN-Linked Biotech Expert Claims COVID-19 Is Man-Made Bio-weapon From Chinese Military Lab

Professor Giuseppe Tritto, an internationally known expert in biotechnology, nanotechnology, and the president of the World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies (WABT), an institution founded under the aegis of UNESCO in 1997, is alleging that COVID-19 was man-made from a Chinese military-led experiment.

He also claims that it is extremely unlikely that a successful vaccine will be invented.*

Never mind the fact that these allegations have been repeatedly debunked by many experts both within and outside the U.S. Your post if off topic, so I’d like you to address exactly how this particular “knowledge” of alleged bio-warfare justifies the White House moving the collection of COVID-19 hospital data away from the CDC and to a private company that has minimal prior experience dealing with massive data collection of this specific nature, especially when considering that the CDC has a very long history of correctly handling the collection of massive data of this specific nature. Please do expound.

The link you provided is to “The National Pulse” website. “The National Pulse” is a right-wing website owned and operated by Raheem Kassam, who is a British political activist, a former editor-in-chief of the well-known right-wing rag the “Breitbart News” and is also a former chief advisor to former UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage. You may recall that Nigel campaigned very hard for Great Britain to leave the European Union, which is something that aids in the degradation of NATO and therefore assists Russia. It’s very interesting that Nigel Farage has met many times with and is very well known to both Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, so they obviously have a great deal in common.

I hope your IRA is doing well. Tell us about the weather in St. Petersburg this time of year.

From what I understand they provide the ‘best low numbers’ your money can buy. Except in this case it’s our money doing the buying, which of course is SOP for Trump, he tries to never spend his own.