Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
WB does it feel good citing stats that you know are low because there hasn’t been enough tests available? Or ignoring that this virus seems to have a much higher fatality rate than swine flu? It’s going to get worse because unlike other countries we’re not doing the rate of testing their doing. Seriously, you can name call all you want but I will keep holding Trump accountable for what he says and does. He’s done a lot of damage and he’s not done.


That's horseshit, M E M. The delay in the tests available (as I linked in detail in a factcheck several posts above) is because of an error by the CDC where they made a bad choice on which test kit to produce, and that caused the delay in production.
How you somehow spin that to be Trump's personal fault is absolutely demented and illogical. CDC and NIH officials have all said this, and said the testing kits should be produced in the millions by the end of this week, if not already.

And your own argument about the lack of details about the Wuhan virus puts the lie to what you allege about the "far worse" fatality rate. There are projected to be tens of thousands of cases showing very mild or no symptoms in cases worldwide, that if reported would vastly lower the alleged "fatality" rate.
And given that medical treatment is far better in the U.S. than in China or Iran, it stands to reason the fatality rate would be much lower in the U.S.

The current death rate in the U.S. (41 deaths, out of 1,758 cases) is about 2.3%, of reported cases. With all the unreported mild cases, it is estimated to be between 0.2% and 0.7%.

How you blame that on Trump, I don't know.
If you were logically to blame someone, it would be China, for deliberately hiding the outbreak until it had already spread internationally outside of China. And even then, even up till now, has not allowed U.S. medical experts in to enter China to study the virus and its origins. It was not until the epidemic spread to South Korea and their government shared information about the outbreak that we really began to learn its infectious characteristics to fight it.
You should be thanking Trump for taking the unprecedented travel-ban restrictions that contained the spread early on in the U.S.
A comparison of its spread in Italy and other European nations, and the spread from there by European visitors to the U.S., is a sharp contrast to how infection spread in countries NOT led by a President Trump. And when that became a visible source of spread, Trump implemented a 30-day suspension of European travel to the U.S.

Further, the fighting of Wuhan virus, or Swine Flu, or SARS or Ebola or whatever outbreak emerges at any given time, is not generally done by presidents. To a large degree, the preparation or lack thereof would be the same under any president, entrusted to medical experts of the CDC and NIH.
The biggest difference, the powerfully significant difference, is that Trump intervened and suspended flights from China, and now from Europe. And those moves, as NIH head Dr. Anthony Fauci said 2 days ago, made an enormous difference, as "absolutely the right move" he said, that prevented untold tens of thousands of infections in nthe U.S.