The Associated Press and “FRONTLINE” launched a seven-month investigation -- filing Freedom of Information Act requests, testing medical masks, interviewing dozens of experts from hard-hit hospitals to the White House -- to understand what was behind these critical shortages.
The lack of early testing was a major stumble. First, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s tests were faulty. Then there weren’t enough. The Food and Drug Administration raced to approve more tests, but without access to cheap, disposable swabs -- made almost entirely in Italy and now in very short supply -- they were useless. U.S. public health departments’ worst fears were quickly realized.
“And these are unacceptable deaths, each of which could have been prevented if we had had adequate supply chains in place in advance of the pandemic,” said UC Berkeley Professor William Dow. He went to the White House and told President George W. Bush, who rolled out at $7.1 billion pandemic preparedness plan. Leavitt, a Republican, spent the next three years traveling to all 50 states, warning health officials to get ready by stockpiling six to eight weeks of masks, gloves and other supplies.
The AP and “FRONTLINE” spoke with members of the Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump administrations who were responsible for pandemic preparedness. All said they had worried and warned about inadequate supply chains. But solutions were expensive, and neither Congress nor the White House made this a priority.
“There was not a lot of traction on the part of most of the people participating,” Lurie said. “One didn’t have the sense coming in that this was going to be high on the priority list.” “So many thousands of people have died needlessly, and it didn’t need to be this way,” she said. “But I think if I reflect on what’s going on here, this is an administration that had policies, procedures, tools, plans, checklists, advance warning, all of those things, and it appears to have used almost none of it.”
The story of their company, Prestige Ameritech, explains why the U.S. has failed to maintain a robust domestic medical supply manufacturing base. In 2014, a confidential presentation obtained by the AP and “FRONTLINE” from HHS warned that the U.S. supply of medical masks was “nearly exhausted” and that 5.3 billion would be needed in a pandemic.
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JulietLinderman mendozamartha frontlinepbs GlobalRepCentre I HOPE MIKE PENCE ASK WHY NOT ONE CANDIDATE TALKED ON THE ISSUE OF CHNA SHUTDOWN OR GLOBAL HEALTH EMER IN FEB DEBATES
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JulietLinderman mendozamartha frontlinepbs GlobalRepCentre Because the news media, along with the democrats, created a panic over a flu.
JulietLinderman mendozamartha frontlinepbs GlobalRepCentre Obama/Biden left the stock empty... Another way to obstruct president trumps presidency.. Evil People they are.
JulietLinderman mendozamartha frontlinepbs GlobalRepCentre Econ 101. The current supply was matching current demand to maximize profits and limit expenses. Then an event called the COVID pandemic happened causing demand to skyrocket and supply had to catch up. savedyouaclick
JulietLinderman mendozamartha frontlinepbs GlobalRepCentre Because Obama gave all our manufacturing to China
JulietLinderman mendozamartha frontlinepbs GlobalRepCentre It's called 'supply and demand', something most people learn about in their teens.
JulietLinderman mendozamartha frontlinepbs GlobalRepCentre CAUSE THEY ARE ALL SUPPLIED BY CHINA
JulietLinderman mendozamartha frontlinepbs GlobalRepCentre Same reason as toilet paper. Not hard to figure out.
JulietLinderman mendozamartha frontlinepbs GlobalRepCentre Globalists moved production from the US to China. End of story.
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JulietLinderman mendozamartha frontlinepbs GlobalRepCentre TrumpCovid19 is the answer.
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JulietLinderman mendozamartha frontlinepbs GlobalRepCentre .NYGovCuomo secretly stored them in unknown warehouses.
JulietLinderman mendozamartha frontlinepbs GlobalRepCentre Why are we Destroying our nation? Science Biden/Media wont tell you. -Median age Covid19 death in US is 78. -Average life expectancy in the US is 78 -Covid recovery rates by age group 0-19 99.997% 20-49 99.98% 50-69 99.5% 70+ 94.6%
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