Biden-Harris Announce Members of the COVID-19 Response Team

[NRSKarenRN]

President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris Announce Members of the COVID-19 Response Team
 

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...As part of today’s announcement, the president-elect and vice president-elect named coordinators for three crucial aspects of the COVID-19 response strategy: supply chain management, vaccinations, and testing.

Tim Manning-- The Supply Coordinator will coordinate the federal effort focused on securing, strengthening, and ensuring a sustainable pandemic supply chain, working with departments and agencies to ensure there is sufficient PPE, tests, vaccines, and related supplies and equipment.

Bechara Choucair, MD --The Vaccinations Coordinator will focus on making sure vaccines turn into vaccinations by coordinating the timely, safe, and equitable delivery of COVID-19 vaccinations for the U.S. population, in close partnership with relevant federal departments and agencies, as well as state and local authorities.

Carole Johnson --The Testing Coordinator will coordinate the federal effort to expand COVID-19 testing and the use of testing for an effective public health response, with an emphasis on expanding and targeting testing for schools, nursing homes, other at-risk populations, and communities hardest hit by the pandemic. The Coordinator will chair the National Pandemic Testing Board, which will work to ensure equitable test allocation, identify bottlenecks, and overcome barriers to access....

 

[MunoRN, RN]

I might just stay up here. Permanently.

 

 

[herring_RN, ASN, BSN]

2 hours ago, MunoRN said:

I'm skiing and get minimal reception so this is the only site that loads.  So what's going on again?

 

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

Woman who was shot, confirmed died per NBC

Atter this tweet,  Biden went live TV  telling Trump he needed to get on TV to tell his followers to STOP- --so he produced a new Twitter video stating election was rigged but they needed to stop violence --unable to link to this video.

 

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

1 hour ago, NRSKarenRN said:

so he produced a new Twitter video stating election was rigged but they needed to stop violence --unable to link to this video.

Twitter, facebook, and Youtube all took it down, and I’m hearing he’s on a 12 hour lockout for Twitter

[Beerman, BSN]

5 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

While you are defending Trump's corrupt incompetence, his angry mob has just pushed past the capital security and both chambers of Congress are in recess and lockdowns. To force congress to install Trump as president. 

Trump was responsible for the entirety of the federal pandemic response.  The buck stops with the chief executive. 

Deflection.  Still, what would have been different?

"His angry mob" isn't representative of half the country.  And, if I were you I wouldnt assume those who did storm the Capitol are who the left wing propagandist media say they are.

[toomuchbaloney]

4 minutes ago, Beerman said:

Deflection.  Still, what would have been different?

"His angry mob" isn't representative of half the country.  And, if I were you I wouldnt assume those who did storm the Capitol are who the left wing propagandist media say they are.

Leadership would have been different.  How is that not obvious? 

Who said the mob represented half the country? Who is assuming and what left wing propaganda are you referencing? Provide an example so that I understand exactly what you mean, please. It was quite clear that Trump's invited devotees stormed the capital.  

But we expect people to blame others. That's how Trump support works. 

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

1 hour ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Leadership would have been different.  How is that not obvious? 

Leadership matters even if it would have ravaged us.  France, Spain, Italy all of them are having 2nd wave and struggling despite all their best efforts.

Given we are some of the most unhealthy and obese people in the industrialized world we still probably would worse off than most countries regardless of leadership.

Still, even though he did some things right to start out the pandemic with immediate distrust in the fake news media, that it was overblown "new hoax" of the Democrats to take him down, to make a mockery of experts, to promote medication that has proven to not work (one he didn't take while he was sick), to act likes it's not a big deal, on and on and on the vacuum of leadership was there.  

If nothing else he could have gotten the states together and fostered a spirit of "we're in this together" and been bipartisan, imploring people to be careful and safe, wear masks and role model good behavior acted like he cared about the dying, instead of alienating Democrat run states.

Outcomes would have been awful, but he could have been seen as a true leader him a time of crisis and would have easily won the election.

This is why even though Biden won't be able to stop the ravages of Covid, people are giddy at getting rid of Trump.

[nursej22, MSN, RN]

Here's how it would have been different: 

The CDC would have been allowed to create an overall plan and to craft messaging, including regular, fact-based updates. Instead, experts like Dr. Messonnier were silenced, or fired like Dr. Rick Bright. Toadies like Dr. Redfield would be replaced with actual leaders. 

The National Defense Production Act would have been implemented to produce the necessary PPE and testing supplies, rather than telling states they needed to compete with each other and be subjected to price gouging. 

An actual travel ban with a rational plan to test and quarantine returning citizens would have been put in place. 

States would have the funding and supplies they needed to effectively test and conduct contact investigations. 

The CARES act would have been directed at ordinary citizens and not giant corporations looking to boost their bottom line. 

These are just a few off the top of my head. 

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

5 hours ago, nursej22 said:

Here's how it would have been different: ...

 

These are just a few off the top of my head. 

Agree 100% with your sentiments.

[toomuchbaloney]

I'm beginning to wonder if conservatives can't even imagine what competent leadership might  look like in this era of Trumpianity. 

[subee, MSN, CRNA]

On 1/6/2021 at 2:05 PM, Beerman said:

Still not hearing how it would have been better  if someone else was President.

Even your opinion article focuses on the entire US leadership at the Federal level as well as local.

You would be more credible if you hadn't spent 4 years blaming everything under the sun on Trump and while never ever acknowledging something that has been done well under his administration. 

 

 

 

Trump failures:  1.  Alex Azar skill set - former pharmaceutical executive in charge of health.   Just the optics alone of appointing another businessman-grifter to a platform that has to solve the drugs too expensive to use dilemma, he was the worst person to lead that war. 2.  Mike Pence "Head" of the Pandemic Task Force - the fly on his head did  more "heading" than Pence who bungled the response to the HIV crisis in Indiana and then did NOTHING for this one except to nod and bob at the back of Trump's head.   To say nothing of all the revolving tools who arrive with no knowledge of their assigned department,  decimated  the civil workers who have the institutional knowledge and history and then, poof!, they are gone because they did something to make the manchild president angry.  Described by aides as "gleeful" over the riots and there is video footage of the family watch the monitors as if they were a festive activity.  Wanted Saudi Arabia in the "peace" accord.  It's a business deal to sell more fighter planes to a government unworthy of spit balls.  I can't sit here long enough to enumumerate the immodest failures of this man.  OK.  After 4 years an epi pen is affordable for the middle class if they only have to buy 1 a year.  

 

[londonflo]

On 1/4/2021 at 6:59 PM, Beerman said:

 The best way to combat the virus is a rapid development of a safe and effective vaccine.

It is one way but other strategies can be as helpful -- washing hands, masking, social distancing and figuring out how these virii develop. Only seeing the vaccine as a way out is like saying since we have antibiotics we should have no fear of bacterial infections.