{"id":6881,"date":"2020-05-15T04:55:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T04:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/?p=6881"},"modified":"2020-05-15T04:55:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T04:55:13","slug":"us-still-lacks-virus-plan-americans-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/2020\/05\/15\/us-still-lacks-virus-plan-americans-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"US still lacks virus plan, Americans at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON, May 14: — Despite White House claims, the U.S. still lacks a comprehensive battle plan against the coronavirus in critical areas including masks, testing, treatments and vaccines, whistleblower Rick Bright warned Thursday in testimony before a House committee. \u201cOur window of opportunity is closing,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n

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The nation could face \u201cthe darkest winter in modern history\u201d if the virus rebounds, the government vaccine scientist told lawmakers. Bright\u2019s appearance came after his ouster last month as head of a Health and Human Services biodefense agency, an action he alleges was retaliation by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

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“We need still a comprehensive plan, and everyone across the government and everyone in America needs to know what that plan is, and what role they play,\u201d he told the House Energy and Commerce Committee. \u201cThere are critical steps that we need to do to prepare … we do not still have enough personal protective equipment to manage our health care workers … we still do not have the supply chains ramped up for the drugs and vaccines, and we still don\u2019t have plans in place for how we distribute those drugs and vaccines. We still do not have a comprehensive testing strategy.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

At the White House, President Donald Trump said Bright looked like an \u201cangry, disgruntled employee,\u201d and Bright\u2019s boss, HHS Secretary Alex Azar, said, \u201cEverything he is complaining about was achieved.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

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“So this is like somebody who was in a choir and is now trying to say he was a soloist back then,\u201d Azar added.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Trump, said later, at a Pennsylvania medical equipment distributor, that the U.S. is ramping up production of COVID-19-related items and that his goal \u201cis to produce everything America needs for ourselves and then export to the world, including medicines.\u201d (AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON, May 14: — Despite White House claims, the U.S. still lacks a comprehensive battle plan against the coronavirus in critical areas including masks, testing, treatments and vaccines, whistleblower Rick Bright warned Thursday in testimony before a House committee. \u201cOur window of opportunity is closing,\u201d he declared. The nation could face \u201cthe darkest winter in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,47,44,1,53,51,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6882,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881\/revisions\/6882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}