Tuesday, December 15, 2020

CDC in July: If you wear masks Covid will be “under control” by September…CDC in September: If you wear masks Covid will be “under control” by December

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CDC in July 2020:

7/14/20: Redfield said by mid-September at most, virus would be “under control” if people wore masks: “I really do believe if the American public all embraced masking now…I really do think over the next four to six, eight weeks, [mid Sept.] we can bring this epidemic under control,” Redfield said.”…COVID-19 could be controlled in 1-2 months if people wear masks: CDC Director Robert Redfield," ABC News, Emily Shapiro

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CDC in Sept. 2020:

9/17/20, It’s mid September, everyone took Redfield at his word and wore their masks, but instead of thanking Americans for believing him and wearing masks, Redfield moves the goal posts. Now he says it’ll all be over in December if you wear masks:

“The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention again urged Americans to wear face masks as much as possible and stressed their effectiveness in containing the spread of the coronavirus….“These face masks are the most important, powerful public health tool we have, and I will continue to appeal for all Americans, all individuals in our country, to embrace these face coverings. I have said if we did it for six, eight, 10, 12 weeks, we would bring this pandemic under control, CDC Director Robert Redfield said during a Senate hearing on Wednesday. “We have clear scientific evidence they work and they are our best defense.” [No link or source for this alleged “scientific evidence.”]  Redfield went on to speculate that masks may even be more effective than a COVID-19 vaccine, particularly for people who don’t respond to a vaccine.”…"CDC Director: Masks Are ‘The Most Important, Powerful Public Health Tool We Have’,” HuffPost, Marina Fang

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Added: NY Times, 4/16/20, Sloppy laboratory practices at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention caused contamination that rendered the nation’s first coronavirus tests ineffective, federal officials confirmed on Saturday.”…CDC sent disease laden test kits to 100 state and local public health labs. US lost a month of testing because nobody was in charge of CDC tests:

Those practices made the tests sent to public health labs unusable because they were contaminated with the coronavirus.…Forced to suspend the launch of a nationwide detection program for the coronavirus for a month, the C.D.C. lost credibility…and the country lost ground....It was just tragic.…All that time when we were sitting there waiting,here we were at one of the most critical junctures in public health history, and the biggest tool in our toolbox was missing.“…Mr. Becker said that public health laboratories started receiving the C.D.C. kits on Feb. 7, and by the next day members were already calling him to report that the test was not working accurately.”

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4/18/20, C.D.C. Labs Were Contaminated, Delaying Coronavirus Testing, Officials Say,NY Times, Sheila Kaplan (page A5, Sun., 4/19 print ed.)

Sloppy laboratory practices at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention caused contamination that rendered the nation’s first coronavirus tests ineffective, federal officials confirmed on Saturday.

In a statement on Saturday, a spokeswoman for the F.D.A., Stephanie Caccomo, said, “C.D.C. did not manufacture its test consistent with its own protocol.”

The F.D.A. confirmed its conclusions late this week after several media outlets requested public disclosure of its inquiry, which assuredly is part of a larger federal investigation into the C.D.C. lab irregularities by the Department of Health and Human Services.

Dr. Robert R. Redfield, the director of the C.D.C., and other health experts have long suggested that contamination in the labs might have been the culprit. But even as several officials at the F.D.A. late this week cited contamination as the cause, a spokesman for the C.D.C., Benjamin Haynes, asserted that it was still just a possibility and that the agency was still awaiting the formal findings of H.H.S.

In a statement, however, he acknowledged that the agency’s quality control measures were insufficient during the coronavirus test development. Since then, he said, “C.D.C. implemented enhanced quality control to address the issue and will be assessing the issue moving forward.”

Initially, the C.D.C. was responsible for creating a coronavirus test that state and local public health agencies could use to diagnose Covid-19 in people, and then isolate them to prevent the spread of the disease.

“It was just tragic,” said Scott Becker, executive director of the Association of Public Health Laboratories.“All that time when we were sitting there waiting, I really felt like, here we were at one of the most critical junctures in public health history, and the biggest tool in our toolbox was missing.”

Mr. Becker said that public health laboratories started receiving the C.D.C. kits on Feb. 7, and by the next day members were already calling him to report that the test was not working accurately. He alerted both the C.D.C. and the F.D.A., which regulates medical devices, including laboratory tests.

“This is consistent with what we said was plausible when we found the problem at the beginning,” Mr. Becker said. “When we found the problem, it seemed to our community that it was a contamination issue that would cause a problem to this extent.”

The F.D.A. concluded that C.D.C. manufacturing issues were to blame and pushed the agency to shift production to an outside firm. That company, I.D.T., accelerated production of the C.D.C. test and says no more issues were reported.

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Added: As of April 17, 2020, only 29 people were in NY City hospitals for virus:

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