Watchdog: US officials handling of Wuhan evacuees increased coronavirus risks

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill

BY JORDAN WILLIAMS - 01/29/21 08:16 AM EST

U.S. officials’ early handling of evacuees from Wuhan, China, increased the risk of the spread of the coronavirus, according to the findings from a government watchdog.

The U.S. Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) opened an investigation into allegations that officials with the Health and Human Services Department sent workers without proper protective gear to receive Americans that were evacuated from Wuhan during the coronavirus outbreak.

The report backs a whistleblower account of the actions taken at the March Air Force Base in California.

The OSC Special Counsel Henry Kerner sent a letter to President Biden on Thursday, in which he said “the most troubling finding” was that the mission “increased the risk of infection transmission not only to deployed to ployed USG personnel but also to the American public as a whole.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/536436-watchdog-us-officials-handling-of-wuhan-evacuees-increased

[Iliyah]

1. Well well well . .

Wait for more fuck ups that shithole administration did besides the total screw up on COVID-19 in the USA. The quote that what ever t-rump touches dies ring true.

One thing I'm hopeful for is that he has totally destroyed the republican party.

[KS Toronado]

9. republican party is killing itself with no outside help, donnie doTURD has the coffin nails

My crystal ball sees overwhelming victories for us at the ballot boxes 2022 & 2024

[Turbineguy]

2. Appointees loyal to trump in charge.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. tRump does not like California. . . . nt

[cstanleytech]

3. No shit!!!!

[Baitball Blogger]

5. AND THEY DID THE SAME THING WITH THE CRUISE LINERS.

They had no safety protocols in place. Just key politicians with strings to the State Department.

[Hugin]

6. I recall reading articles at the time the passengers were loaded directly on airline planes...

and flown home.

One woman, who's husband died of COVID (she felt he'd contracted after leaving the ship), said there were absolutely no prevention protocols observed in moving people from the docks to their final destinations. By the time they arrived home, she said they were most likely saturated with the virus. There were many reports of flight crew on those aircraft subsequently becoming sick with the COVID virus. If I remember correctly there were some 800 of them. In the earliest days of the pandemic they were the highest infection rate of any profession including health care workers. Of course, any news of this were suppressed so as to 'not cause a panic'.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. What ended up being worse

was the delay in handling Americans returning from Europe because that strain ("Italian one" ) just devastated the east coast, and states with or surrounding the 13 airports where Americans were funneled.

(re-posted/edited from here - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142446993#post484)

Article for the image from here - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8111069/Americans-returning-Europe-wont-tested-coronavirus-asked-questions.html



In comparison, what it was as of 4/22/20 -

Link to tweet

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They now report cases per 100,000 -

[Ford_Prefect]

8. I felt like I was seeing a pattern then and I still feel that way now.

This seems far more than incompetence and haste. It seems more like intentional exposure to insure distribution. The kind of judgement made to help spread the disease, presumably to help those ready to profit from such disaster, but I am open to other suggestions.