Going along with US NOW, FORMER BALTIMORE
Wellbeing COMMISSIONER, DR. LINA
NGUYEN.
DR. NGUYEN, A LOT OF PEOPLE
WATCHED THAT TRUMP SPECTACLE ON
SATURDAY, A LOT OF PEOPLE HAD
Various REASONS FOR WATCHING.
AS A PUBLIC HEALTH SPECIALIST,
Master, YOU'RE WATCHING IT WITH
A PRISM OF, IS THIS A DISASTER
Really taking shape IN TERMS OF PUBLIC
Wellbeing.
AS YOU WATCHED IT, WHAT DID YOU
THINK?
>> WELL, I SAW PEOPLE WHO WERE
STANDING SHOULDER TO SHOULDER,
NOT WEARING MASKS, IN CLOSE
Nearness FOR A PRONG PRO LONGLO
Timeframe.
Also, I THOUGHT ABOUT ALL OF THESE
People, SOME OF WHOM ARE
More established, SOME OF WHOM PROBABLY
HAVE CHRONIC MEDICAL CONDITIONS.
HOW THEY COULD BE INFECTED
THEMSELVES, GO BACK TO THEIR
HOME COMMUNITIES AND INFECT
THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS AND
Every other person AROUND THEM.
What's more, I ALSO THOUGHT ABOUT HOW
OVERBURDENED OUR PUBLIC HEALTH
Framework ALREADY IS.
As of now, WE DON'T HAVE THE
CONTACT TRACERS THAT WE NEED IN
Request TO CONTAIN THIS INFECTION,
Or on the other hand FRANKLY, THE TESTING THAT WE
NEED TO CONTAIN THIS INFECTION,
Also, HOW AS A RESULT OF THIS ONE
Occasion, WE'RE GOING TO OVERBURDEN
OUR PUBLIC HEALTH SFRURTINFRASTR
Considerably MORE.
>> SO THE QUESTION OF WHETHER
TRUMP ACTUALLY TOLD THE
Organization TO SLOW DOWN
TESTING OR NOT.
YOU KNOW, THEIR CLAIM THAT IT
WAS JUST A JOKE.
I'M NOT SURE HOW THEY COULD
Conceivably THINK IT WOULD BE FUNNY
TO BE JOKING ABOUT SUCH THINGS
WHEN 120,000 AMERICANS
ARE DEAD FROM COVID-19.
Once more, AS A PUBLIC HEALTH
MATTER, TALK ABOUT BOTH SIDES OF
THIS, RIGHT?
In the event that HE ACTUALLY DID TELL THE
Organization TO SLOW DOWN
TESTING, WHAT ARE THE
Ramifications OF THAT?
Also, SECOND, IF HE DIDN'T, AND
HE'S JUST JOKING ABOUT THAT,
WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS OF
THAT FROM A PUBLIC HEALTH
Master?
>> WELL, TESTING IS THE REASON
THAT WE'RE IN THE DISASTER THAT
WE ARE IN NOW, OR FRANKLY, LACK
OF TESTING IS HOW WE GOT HERE.
On the off chance that WE WERE ABLE TO DO TESTING
BACK IN JANUARY, WE HAD A CHANCE
TO CONTAIN COVID-19 AND PREVENT
THE 120,000 DEATHS THAT WE'RE
Verging on HAVING HERE IN
THE U.S.
For all intents and purposes EVERY PUBLIC HEALTH
Master AGREES THAT WE NEED FAR
Additional TESTING.
THAT WE NEED A NATIONAL STRATEGY
FOR IDENTIFYING EVERY CASE OF
Person WHO HAS COVID-19,
CONTACT TRACING, AND IDEALLY,
REIGNING IN THE INFECTION AT
THAT POINT.
WE HAD A CHANCE TO STOP THE
Disease.
WE STILL HAVE A CHANCE TO
Distinguish CLUSTERS BEFORE THEY
BECOME OUTBREAKS.
Episodes BEFORE THEY BECOME
Pandemics.
TESTING IS KEY TO THAT.
Furthermore, IT REALLY DEFIES SCIENCE, IT
Challenges PUBLIC HEALTH, AND FRANK
IT DEFIES COMMON SENSE AS TO WHY
WE WOULD WANT TO DO SOMETHING
Purposefully TO REDUCE TESTING,
WHILE ALL ALONG WE'VE BEEN
SAYING WE NEED A NATIONAL
Methodology, A COORDINATED EFFORT
SO WE CAN GET FROM HUNDREDS OF
A great many TESTS A DAY, WHICH
IS WHERE WE ARE NOW, TO MILLIONS
OF TESTS.
TESTING IS THE KEY TO REOPENING
OUR ECONOMY AND GETTING SCHOOLS
BACK OPEN AND WE FEED TO SEE THE
PRESIDENT SPEAK THE TRUTH ABOUT
WHAT ACTUALLY HAS BEEN HAPPENING
HERE.
>> THINK ABOUT SPEAKING THE
TRUTH.
TWO SENIOR ADMINISTRATION
Authorities, PETER NAVARRO AND
LARRY KUDLOW, YESTERDAY, ON CNN,
NAVARRO SAID WHEN ASKED ABOUT
Regardless of whether THE ADMINISTRATION IS
Planning FOR A SECOND WAVE
AFTER COVID-19, HE SAID, OF
COURSE WE'RE PREPARING FOR IT.
KUDLOW THIS MORNING ON CNBC
SAYS, THERE IS NO SECOND WAVE
COMING.
SO THESE ARE TWO SENIOR
Organization OFFICIALS SAYING
Oppositely OPPOSED THINGS
ABOUT WHAT ARE HAPPENING AND THE
Desires GOING FORWARD.
HOW DISCONCERTING IS IT TO YOU
THAT THERE'S THAT MIXED MESSAGE
COMING OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE,
Furthermore, WHAT'S YOUR SENSE, WHICH OF
THOSE TWO IS THE PRESUMPTION
THEY'RE OPERATING UNDER
At present?
>> TO YOUR FIRST QUESTION,
CLEAR, DIRECT MESSAGING IS
EVERYTHING.
THAT'S WHAT WAS KEY TO
CONTAINING COVID-19 IN OTHER
Nations THAT HAVE SUCCESSFULLY
Battled IT.
General HEALTH DEPENDS ON PUBLIC
TRUST.
What's more, YOU CAN'T HAVE GOVERNMENT
Authorities WHO ARE POLITICIZEING
THIS TRAGEDY AND COMPLETELY AT
Chances WITH THE SCIENTIFIC
Network.
IN TERMS OF WHERE WE ARE, WE ARE
NOT ANYWHERE CLOSE BEING FAST
THE FIRST WAVE OF COVID-19.
WE'RE AT THE STEADY STATE NOW OF
Many DEATHS A DAY.
What's more, THIS IS INCREASING.
WE'RE SEEING SURGES ACROSS THE
SOUTH AND THE SOUTHEAST.
WE'RE SEEING HOSPITALS GETTING
FULL, ICUS ACTUALLY GETTING FULL
IN PARTS OF TEXAS, ALABAMA,
FLORIDA.
Truly CONCERNING TRENDS.
What's more, THAT'S BEFORE WE EVEN HIT
THE FALL.
At the point when WE'RE GOING TO GET THE
Juncture OF INFLUENZA AND FLU
SEASON ON TOP OF COVID-19, TOO.
SO WHAT WE REALLY SHOULD BE
SEEING RIGHT NOW IS PREPARATION
FOR IF SOMETHING LIKE THAT WERE
TO HAPPEN.
WE NEED A NATIONAL STRATEGY
AGAIN FOR TESTING.
WE ALSO NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT
WE DON'T RUN OUT OF PPE.
THE MASK AND GOWNS AND OTHER
THINGS THAT WE DID LAST TIME.
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