Donald McNeil, science and health reporter for the New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about why the failure by the United States to effectively test and isolate people infected with the novel coronavirus is likely to result in a higher rate of infections and deaths. Aired on 03/18/2020.
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Failure To Identify, Isolate Coronavirus Infections Puts U.S. On Dark Path | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
Trump: “I take no responsibility at all. Taking responsibility is not my deal in life. I admit that I take many things, but responsibility isnt one of them. And for the record, I was never a big fan of testing, because I like the numbers where they are right now. So when the number of infection cases goes up because of more testing, don’t blame me. I take no responsibility for any of this, and the reason why is because everyone knew I was fundamentally unfit intellectually, morally, temperamentally, emotionally, and psychologically to be president. Someone as mentally unstable and divorced from reality as I clearly am, should have NEVER been allowed anywhere near the White House. So again, don’t blame me, blame the people who voted for me. Blame republicans in Congress who aided, abetted, and pardoned my crimes. Blame people like Lindsey Graham who continues to defend me. I’m the same person that I’ve always been, an unethical con-man and a sociopath, but you already knew that.”.
TDS is full blown with this one
@Andy504 nah its not long enough for this bufoon
@Dorafan73′ the genetic sequence was identified in 15th of January. It’s time to walk out of your inmaginated reality.
@leebog31 During a Feb. 28th campaign rally in South Carolina, Trump likened the Democrats’ criticism of his administration’s response to the new coronavirus outbreak to their efforts to impeach him, saying “this is their new hoax.” During the speech he also seemed to downplay the severity of the outbreak, comparing it to the common flu. And look where we are now. Thats your “DEAR LEADER”. A complete joke and moron that doest listen to his advisors and experts until its too late. Just like now. Trump’s ego is so HUUUGE, he thinks he knows more than the scientists and even Dr Fauchi who were all telling him a month ago to take this seriously but instead he was making jokes as he usually does. Total incompetence.WAKE UP!
This guy can’t take responsibility for anything, he’s not a grown-up.
America you are about to witness how incompetent the American Government and Donald Trump truly are! Theirs no excuse for this type of stupidity!
@Andy504 Yes, so did your mother.
@Nathan I would have called him the same….his record of racist statements & behavior speaks for itself. If it’s a HOAX created by the media & just a flu, why then ban Chinese from entering? Can you see the disconnect? The experts say this one is worse than the seasonal flu…..that’s why we do not do the same for the seasonal flu every year for the past hundred years. Did you miss that part at Fox News? If the seasonal flu was just as bad as COVID 19 it would be handled accordingly……Are you really that misinformed & clueless? Americans are already weak having a president who’s an anti-vaccine advocate who has gutted/under-funded the CDC, FEMA & other agencies responsible for confronting the current public health emergency. He’s a clear & present danger. Educate yourself.
@Adventure54 i never said it was a hoax.
I do think its not as bad as everyone is making it out to be.
Can you give me some examples of Trumps history of racist comments?
@Adventure54 The experts say covid19 is worse. They also say the flu has killed over 20,000 people just in the US since October 2019 vs the ~120 covid19 has.
Hilary would have been magically prepared?
Bernie?
No.
They wouldn’t, especially when the Democratic party called banning and avoiding Chinese racist….
No no one was prepared
Yes in south korea , they designated hospitals for only CORVID patients.
@Abcd K I believe your opinon is as credible as your name! Nuff said?
@Paul E. Esther Thanks for making fun of my name 🙄
@Abcd K no problem you’re very welcome!
Can we purchase test kits from South Korea
@xinyiquan666 Nope, we developed our own test kits based on Covid”19″ RNA, that from your first patient. We may copy your diseases but not treatment itself and strategic outbreak solution – solely authentic made of KOREAN
Also in South korea, all public places , they still checking temperature and hand sanitizers are everywhere and thoroughly disinfect all public places regularly.
And they wear FACE MAKS
i heard that south korea also used isolation areas. unused conference rooms, hotels, offices, etc.
Hi! Argentina began quarantine. With 128 cases, 3 deaths and no cases of social circulation, the mandatory quarantine began in Argentina. It started with applause for health personnel across the country as a sign of support, emphasizing that the measures are taken on time as it is still in the containment phase, Argentina defined the situation as “war”. Due to the measures taken quickly by citizens, it is currently highlighted that the virus does not yet have social circulation. Video of applause for Argentine and world health personnel before the Argentine president decreed mandatory quarantine. ALL TO PRAY !. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ljkXWS57zQ
у нас тоже короновирус
Brad Smith You don’t meet Coronavirus everyday do you? And people move wherever they like to live a everyday life.
Trump university: Do the math…
Trump: don’t do the testing, I don’t want the numbers going up…
@catalinacurio not concerning as Obama’s H1N1 which infected 60 million Americans and which no one is allowed to talk about.
Fear fear fear …talk about the economy tanking and the Rothchilds who lost control of the cash
@Diarrhea Latte HEY BROWNEY. President is THE best leader citizens have had since the first sponge crossed the southern border. Why do you think your funny? you’re NOT.
The tests were tainted and not giving proper results and who knows what else.
There were boxes and boxes thrown out. You can find this out on internet.
This is why Prez Trump keeps calling out China. They were also shipping over medical
necessities and turned the ship back to China. He doesn’t say anything about
Chinese people. It’s that they are not ‘our friend’. Thus war is what China wants
to start with the US. Prez trump wants world peace. There are reporters on CNN,
Morning Joe, Cuomo , Cali Newsome who are praising him for the job he’s doing,
China wants to take over the world. They use shipping containers to traffic
children – google Ray Chandler bigger operation than Epstein! They send over
adrenochrome from Wuhan as well. Google it and who takes it. Prez Trump’s
very first EO was to stop all child trafficking. At this point watch JoeM’s
video on the plan to save the world. It’s knowledge that’s very hard to swallow!
His EGO OVER LIVES!
We’re screwed.
That’s the spirt defeat before you try. I’m cleansing, quarantine, down at home, have tons of chores that need to be done.
YUP!
You don’t, you have trump
THE END IS NEAR!!!!!!!!!!
I’m not. I’m being smart about this.
Sad to see so many people have been put in dangers just because the government got too much ego to learn from other countries that have successfully got the epidemic under control.
Only one country has this under control.s Korea still spreading, Japan too.
I live over here
Some European countries gave up UK, and others spring break, college best and brightest, still parting catch and release back home genius!
Sad to see you so triggered by Trump….
@rocketmrv C The President loves YOOOOOU
Partisan pride, national pride, defense of ego…you got it right, they have become huge problems in the US.
@Andy504 And I’ll try my best to love the President back. And you.
The first and last priority is to test the people. If you don’t have test kits how do you know who’s infected to be isolated to protect others.
@Truthfears Guilty Trump and his administration knew US already had alot of infected people. That’s why he refused the WHO test kits as it will release the incredible amount of victim which will send news across the globe and Wall Street will crash immediately. That’s why no test, no escalation on paper for the situation.
@Crypto Man It was not a pride issue, it was a stock market issue. You think Trump care if people die as in so many people die in US in one way or other?
@Cut the crap, lets be real
he will answer to every single one suffering and gone!
Germany produced the 1st testing kit Jan 17, just a week after China published openly the genome sequence Jan.10.
@Jon Nelson I think they refused it because who knows what was that weird surge of vaping illness 6 months ago.
Wuhan was dealing with the virus before Italy. The US had plenty of warning, the virus started in China, December of last year.
“People tell me that this isn’t real!” Am worry about my family country, How can the U S A don’t what’s needed!” Hopefully citizens will step in for all
Gates foundation and Obama administration and the Chinese at UNC under Obama administration. Designers of a so called antivirus …You poor ignorant commoncore. Look it up.or just stay stupid like them.
@ABC DEFG So you are saying if China pays for this, the problems in US will suddenly be sovled? Wake up dude! And do some freaking research, not only from media but those journals, articles, presentations made by experts! Judge things by logic and science not political ideology!
@chi sox Still, Wuhan’s lockdown in Jan should give trump enough time to prepare, what did he do?
US is one of the first country evacuated its citizens from Wuhan and forbad the entrance of Chinese to US, how could Trump gov didn’t know anything? They just don’t care about people’s life
We should all give thanks to medical staff who voluntarily work in the ‘dirty’ teams to deal with the virus.
thanks === $$$ they deserve it, those on the front line of this scourge.
We need to keep them safe so that they can keep us safe. 💙
Thank you.
I heard they are drafted. That alot of them aren’t choosing to work. They are legally forced to
@Kayla D It’s our fcking job! So many of my counterparts signed on to be doctors and nurses for the job security and pay. However, never thinking they would actually have to put themselves in danger to save others. Well, “man -up” cupcake, the real world does not always operate as hoped.
This health expert is unbiased and factual, he needs to be heard
@Fiona O’Keefe RK keeps telling himself “fake News!” until it disappears from his false reality SMH
@RK Its sure acts like one. Just look at all deaths and how fast its spreading all around the world. Wake up and educate yourself and learn instead of being a brainwashed dimwit. Even Fox News acknowledges all the deaths in Italy and the rest of the world. You really are that stupid I see you rather choose ignorance rather than knowledge SMH
@Anti thug Society oh screw you
@Anti thug Society well you’re special alright…last time I checked… Italy wasn’t knocking down doors with medical break throughs. In fact there not far off from being 3rd world themselves.
@Rob Roy So whats your point? That has nothing to do with Trump’s incompetence
If we’re following the Italian model that is the worse news I’ve heard so far. Looks like we didn’t learn what we needed to from earlier outbreaks.
I am Italian, I live here in NYC and have been telling everyone for at least one month. NO one believed me….I
Where you been past 2 weeks?
That’s why is called pandemic
Vince ,sorry to be the one to tell you We’re all going to die.
Vince Reynolds : America did, Because President Obama set a Pandemic plan in PLACE! trump closed it down!
Now you do n’t get the Italian mode
Got even worse. American mode
I’m stunned that they have not separate covid & non-covid hospitals. Even a layman knows to do that. no federal directive required.
@Empire Co Hi I’m in Arizona. Actually we have beds and it’s quiet. Truthfully I think they are telling ppl to stay at home so more people aren’t infected e.g. healthcare workers, other patients, and visitors. I’m a conspiracy theorist and I thought oh no big problem, but behind the scenes there is a big problem! I told ppl to stay home unless on your death bed…no need to get infected for a simple cold.
@Box Jabber I understand basic math. Something your public education failed you.
@Tami Pe 2,600 healthcare workers in Italy have tested positive for COVID-19….you can’t take them out of action but they continually infect other patients…catch-22 unless proper protocols are established early on i’m afraid
@Tami Pe Hi Tami Pe from down under,admire your logic in these unsettling times. More caring,compassionate people like you are like oil on troubled waters. Tree by its fruit. Good fruit.
Phaedra sorry I can’t let you get away with your sexist remark ( lay man) the correct pronoun is lay person , in times like this I feel it’s important not to let hard won achievements slide,
Italy lost 500 ppl in one day. The US will fair way worse since your leader was calling it a hoax just days ago. Scary times.
@wildcatter63 If you’re being sarcastic and people don’t pick up on it, that means you are ineffective in your sarcasm. The entire first paragraph of your comment is something a Trump Supporter would say and nobody is going to waste time reading the rest of your rhetoric, you need to work on your online commenting because you don’t seem to understand what “TLDR” means. If a comedian fails to make people laugh then it’s the comedian’s fault….sarcasm works the same way. Sarcasm should be revealed in the first or second sentence in the online world, so now you know. Your best option is to avoid using sarcasm on the web in the first place because you’re missing a key component– which is tone and inflection. Don’t treat social situations on the internet the way that it applies in real life, the rules are different here and people only skim Youtube comments, everybody knows that..
@wildcatter63 Trump said it would go away by April..”Like a Miracle”.These are facts
@wildcatter63 During a Feb. 28th, campaign rally in South Carolina, Trump likened the Democrats’ criticism of his administration’s response to the new coronavirus outbreak to their efforts to impeach him, saying “this is their new hoax.” During the speech he also seemed to downplay the severity of the outbreak, comparing it to the common flu.
That’s why many Americans got infected, like Trump some of us believed that it was just a hoax made by the opposition but lol look at what in tarnation we’re in rn no more Trump in the next elections
You have no idea how many country have people like you sit there just blaming government. SK president got 1.5 mili impeachment petitions for early misjudgment. Japan, all Europe, it is difficult and confused situation . It was always easy to pick up on someone after the break out.
The major thing that Asia did…..was get EVERYONE FACE MASKS AND MANDATE THAT EVERYONE WEAR ONE!!!!! I don’t understand…it’s a cheap, low tech, barrier.
Aside from someone on a crowded transit coughing on you, masks are primarily for psychological comfort. This thing is transferring via long surface transfers. Touch this, touch that and 🦠🥵🦠🥵
My parents are in China, it was hard for them to get masks for at least two months,so they didn’t go out for almost three months now. But the community administrative officers have been taking care of everyone in the blocks that they are in charge of. They take your shopping lists and coordinate with the local supermarkets to deliver the groceries. They also monitor the residences’ health standards and give the daily consumed medications to the elderlies. Then the delivery guys will not only deliver takeouts from restaurants, but also fetch and mail the parcels and letters, or even feed cats and dogs stranded at home with no masters. It’s these heros that really ensure that our lives are not that much disturbed during this incredibly harsh period. Salute to them!
@Kristi Actually the production capacity of masks in China is almost oversupply now, maybe it is time to import them from China.
@Wenbo Zhan who told you that the masks are almost oversupply ? stop saying nonsense
@Ken Sun 我肯定知道啊，我有自己的渠道了解，当然不会胡说八道，而且我说的是almost
History teaches us that mankind never learns from history
Asians learned from SARS. The West, not so much.
@Guest Informant we don’t,but we have the courage to face it,both the social system and the people. American need a strong leeder and take strict action immediately. God bless you
Because Asia is where China is, and US is anti-China, how stupid
You nailed it.
American pride will be their downfall
China is anti-US
@TheGuerillapatriot
China is not anti US. They are pro China just like US is pro US
Man! I could not believe it! Chinese has shared the data with US and WHO on first week of January and today you guys are still struggling to choose which way to follow??? Don’t u think it’s a bid too late for us?
chagiRenee the virus can be transfer between humans were confirmed on 20th/1 by the expert from central government. At that point about 500 total cases were reported. Also worth to mention that Trump withdraw US expert team from China after 2016, They had lost/blocked their own channel since the beginning otherwise they may have updates few days earlier, but to be honest, few days earlier won’t change anything, half of the Americans and European wouldn’t take seriously and believe it’s flu, still don’t like wearing mask until they saw what’s happening in Italy. To be fair China is not innocent but you cannot blaming her for everything!
chagiRenee TBH though, fully believing whatever a foreign government said is a sign of incompetence. And if we could act as quick as China did, that is, initiating testing and lockdown on Feb, we would have a way better situation.
Trump is a murderer with blood on his hands! Orange man bad orange man bad. Lmfao. Schiff and pelosi are angels. TDS is real. such fools
@DJ Shitz yes and now here you are Democrats vs Republican, a country so divided.
@chagiRenee you can still fly but quarantine and test need to be done and USA didnt have that measure in place so ban flights will be their natural decision to make.
no, no, no, this is too much work. Lets blame China. Every thing will be solved. Easy!
Ok, let’s find patient zero, and why wuhan waited a month to identify this virus and responded to the early pneumonia clusters before we blame anybody.
@chagiRenee Explain why U.S. flu has killed 24,000 people
China CHOSE NOT to tell the world. Wuhan has been the source for three major plagues in the past due to either their bio lab or their wet markets. Tue or false? China also has no problem hauling people out of their home and if they resist they simply shoot the person. We have a thing called Human rights in America
@chagiRenee maybe this are not something we can explain easily, we are all ordinary people, the bottom of pyramid, no matter how hard we discuss we never know the truth, but the fact the situation is so bad in USA really worrying. we should work together as human being instead of fighting among states/provinces/countries, work together and dont do dumb things. All we know is what people want us to know or they want to tell us, and those voices are not from ordinary people like us but higher part of the pyramid, even we die we still dont know wt f happened. We need to solve problem as a community. A lot of people suspect the virus is man-made while they dont have that knowledge, neither me or you or him know so whats the point zzz. We may spreading the false information without we realize and thats scary and we all know how serious can this be.
@DW – “When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
― Socrates
West: bla bla bla
East: action action action