two sides of America's c****av***s response
Aug 14, 2020 08:28:48 #
A short but accurate piece on America’s bungled c***d19 response.
“”” America's bungled political and social response to the c****av***s exists side-by-side with a record-breaking push to create a v*****e with U.S. companies and scientists at the center.
Why it matters: America's two-sided response serves as an X-ray of the country itself — still capable of world-beating feats at the high end, but increasingly struggling with what should be the simple business of governing itself.
What's happening: An index published last week by FP Analytics, an independent research division of Foreign Policy, ranked the U.S. 31st out of 36 countries in its assessment of government responses to C****-**.
That puts it below developed countries like New Zealand and Denmark, and also lower than nations with fewer resources like Ghana, Kenya and South Africa.
The index cited America's limited emergency health care spending, insufficient testing and hospital beds and limited debt relief.
By the numbers: As my Axios colleague Jonathan Swan pointed out in an interview with President Trump, the U.S. has one of the worst per-capita death rates from C****-**, at 50.29 per 100,000 population.
Yes, but: Work on a C****-** v*****e is progressing astonishingly fast, with the Cambridge-based biotech company M*****a and the National Institutes of Health announcing at the end of July that they had begun Phase 3 of the clinical trial.
Their efforts are part of a global rush to a v*****e, and while companies in the U.K. and China are jockeying for the lead, U.S. companies and the NIH's resources and expertise have been key to the effort.
Anthony F***i has said he expects "tens of millions" of doses to be available by early 2021, a little over a year after the novel c****av***s was discovered.
If that turns out to be the case, "the C****-** v*****e could take a place alongside the Apollo missions as one of history’s greatest scientific achievements," epidemiologist Michael Kinch recently wrote in STAT.
So which is the real American response to C****-**? The bungled testing policies, the politically driven rush to reopen, the tragic racial divide seen in the sick and the dead? Or the warp-speed work to develop a v*****e in a year when most past efforts took decades?
Be smart: It's both.
The U.S. is a country that has far and away the top elite universities in the world — yet ranks in the middle of the pack internationally when it comes to educating its high school students.
The best U.S. hospitals are the best in the world — yet U.S. life expectancy has plateaued and falls years below comparable countries like the U.K, Canada and Japan.
Peruse a list of the richest people in the world, and you'll find it mostly populated by Americans — yet more than 43 million Americans live in poverty, a number sure to grow as the p******c rages on.
The bottom line: It can often feel as if there are two Americas, and not even a v***s that has spread around the world seems capable of bridging that gap.
https://www.axios.com/florida-c****av***s-deaths-daily-record-2c4d8f1f-0125-4346-8fd5-1c58700fc7b7.html
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https://www.axios.com/us-c****av***s-v*****e-testing-science-b656e905-67d1-4836-863e-c91f739cfd1e.html
“”” America's bungled political and social response to the c****av***s exists side-by-side with a record-breaking push to create a v*****e with U.S. companies and scientists at the center.
Why it matters: America's two-sided response serves as an X-ray of the country itself — still capable of world-beating feats at the high end, but increasingly struggling with what should be the simple business of governing itself.
What's happening: An index published last week by FP Analytics, an independent research division of Foreign Policy, ranked the U.S. 31st out of 36 countries in its assessment of government responses to C****-**.
That puts it below developed countries like New Zealand and Denmark, and also lower than nations with fewer resources like Ghana, Kenya and South Africa.
The index cited America's limited emergency health care spending, insufficient testing and hospital beds and limited debt relief.
By the numbers: As my Axios colleague Jonathan Swan pointed out in an interview with President Trump, the U.S. has one of the worst per-capita death rates from C****-**, at 50.29 per 100,000 population.
Yes, but: Work on a C****-** v*****e is progressing astonishingly fast, with the Cambridge-based biotech company M*****a and the National Institutes of Health announcing at the end of July that they had begun Phase 3 of the clinical trial.
Their efforts are part of a global rush to a v*****e, and while companies in the U.K. and China are jockeying for the lead, U.S. companies and the NIH's resources and expertise have been key to the effort.
Anthony F***i has said he expects "tens of millions" of doses to be available by early 2021, a little over a year after the novel c****av***s was discovered.
If that turns out to be the case, "the C****-** v*****e could take a place alongside the Apollo missions as one of history’s greatest scientific achievements," epidemiologist Michael Kinch recently wrote in STAT.
So which is the real American response to C****-**? The bungled testing policies, the politically driven rush to reopen, the tragic racial divide seen in the sick and the dead? Or the warp-speed work to develop a v*****e in a year when most past efforts took decades?
Be smart: It's both.
The U.S. is a country that has far and away the top elite universities in the world — yet ranks in the middle of the pack internationally when it comes to educating its high school students.
The best U.S. hospitals are the best in the world — yet U.S. life expectancy has plateaued and falls years below comparable countries like the U.K, Canada and Japan.
Peruse a list of the richest people in the world, and you'll find it mostly populated by Americans — yet more than 43 million Americans live in poverty, a number sure to grow as the p******c rages on.
The bottom line: It can often feel as if there are two Americas, and not even a v***s that has spread around the world seems capable of bridging that gap.
https://www.axios.com/florida-c****av***s-deaths-daily-record-2c4d8f1f-0125-4346-8fd5-1c58700fc7b7.html
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You can find tgevunderlinedvhyoerlinks in the linked article below
https://www.axios.com/us-c****av***s-v*****e-testing-science-b656e905-67d1-4836-863e-c91f739cfd1e.html
Aug 14, 2020 08:47:51 #
The people listed as living in poverty in our country would not be listed as living in poverty in other countries...I just read an article putting Stockholm's infection rate as the same as London's. Yet Stockholm didn't lock down their population like London did... What that tells me is that the lockdowns are not as effective as what many believe...
Aug 14, 2020 09:44:20 #
Screamin Scott wrote:
The people listed as living in poverty in our country would not be listed as living in poverty in other countries.
I don’t get you point there . Poverty “levels” as you say are unique to each country. But the percent of us based on that country’s data . So what
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..I just read an article putting Stockholm's infection rate as the same as London's. Yet Stockholm didn't lock down their population like London did... What that tells me is that the lockdowns are not as effective as what many believe...
..I just read an article putting Stockholm's infection rate as the same as London's. Yet Stockholm didn't lock down their population like London did... What that tells me is that the lockdowns are not as effective as what many believe...
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Many people are trying to bake something of this with knowing the facts..
Trying to compare Sweden to us. Is apples and oranges.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/24/franklin-graham/fact-checking-swedens-c***d-infection-rate-without/
https://globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12992-020-00588-x
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