Coronavirus response delayed despite health officials' private alarm
By mid-February, some of the nation’s top health care officials were privately expressing alarm over evidence that the coronavirus was spreading from patients without symptoms in a chain of emails obtained by USA TODAY.
The agencies they help lead failed to translate the information into rapid action, leaving cities and counties to forge their own containment strategies.
Since then, more than 12,000 Americans have died from the virus.
The email thread was called “Red Dawn Breaking” – a riff on a 1980s movie. In their candid notes, some of the nation’s leading infectious disease experts and most powerful health care officials traded critical information as the threat mounted.
On Feb. 23, Dr. Robert Kadlec, assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the Department of Health and Human Services, highlighted flaws in the government’s approach in an exchange with dozens of high-level federal officers and outside experts, according to the previously unreported emails.
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But it's Obama's fault - Donny Dotard.
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