It's disappointing when you don't read the original source
You were "ranked number one" but I'm sure that's not your fault so much as the fault of shoddy Breitbart reporting.
The study created 3 tiers which the us and I think 10 other countries are in.
Did you see this little potato?
ranks 175????
That puts you in the company of Third world countries.
And yet South Korea has been far more successful in dealing with this. They've been more rigorous when it comes to making sure everyone is tested, done more testing than we have overall and far more when you take into account the different sizes of our population.
If USA was the best prepared then why is USA leading the world as having the most confirmed Covid-19 cases 21 days after having 100 cases?
Infection Trajectory: See Which Countries are Flattening Their COVID-19 Curve
It seems USA has not taken enough measures to contain the spread of the disease. Every other country that has reached 21 days after having 100 cases has done better than USA.
I think Singapore, Japan, Kuwait, Bahrain can take bragging rights. I think USA should just keep quiet.
Here is what I was looking for.
Trump team failed to follow NSC’s pandemic playbook
He did not follow the NSC playbook.
Unfortunately Americans are notorious for their independent spirit. "The government can't tell me what to do." Most times that's great, but now not so much.
This from the article.
An NSC official confirmed the existence of the playbook but dismissed its value. “We are aware of the document, although it’s quite dated and has been superseded by strategic and operational biodefense policies published since,” the official said. “The plan we are executing now is a better fit, more detailed, and applies the relevant lessons learned from the playbook and the most recent Ebola epidemic in the [Democratic Republic of the Congo] to COVID-19.”
In a subsequent section, the playbook details steps to take if there’s evidence that the virus is spreading among humans, which the World Health Organization concluded by Jan. 22, or the U.S. government declared a public health emergency, which HHS Secretary Alex Azar did on Jan. 31.
Under that timeline, the federal government by late January should have been taking a lead role in “coordination of workforce protection activities including… [personal protective equipment] determination, procurement and deployment.” Those efforts are only now getting underway, health workers and doctors say.
No. It has to do with access to healthcare. I don't think all of the 174 countries doing better than you all have socialized medicineYeah thats because we don't have socialized medicine. If we bought into socialized medical medicine we would be very high in that area.
Travel restrictions versus expansive testing. I guess that's why it's America First, South Korea not.The US imposed travel restrictions and South Korea didnt, even though Doctors asked them too on multiple occasions.
Yeah, I'm not trusting the commies on that.Reportedly Italians were of the same attitude about a month ago.
On a related note, the U.S. is now showing the most cases of COVID-19, having just passed China.
Nope. Ideology can blind people to the most obvious facts.Where I do agree is that at some point Americans are going to realize there are a lot of stupid countrymen and women who really don't care about you at all.
Some won't care and make you sick; some will just say it's okay if you die if I need to make money.
We would have too if the testing hadn't failed. You can hardly blame the president or the plan for that.
This is a problem with all Western styled nations.Unfortunately Americans are notorious for their independent spirit. "The government can't tell me what to do." Most times that's great, but now not so much.
When I compare that to the daily briefing by my own Prime Minister, well, I'm very thankful that I am not a USA person and not in the USA right now.
Nearly every case here in Australia came from the US, so I don't think so. Meanwhile, the US leads the world with the most cases of the virus. Not exactly an advertisement for 'best prepared'. How the Coronavirus Became an American Catastrophe
They are not mutually exclusive. It takes both. The problem with testing in america is due to flawed CDC tests due to some kind of manufacturing problem, and also CDC and FDA regulations put in place before Trump.Travel restrictions versus expansive testing. I guess that's why it's America First, South Korea not.
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