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merci ! ce qui est remarquable aussi c’est que les pays « most prepared » sont parmi les premiers touchés et ceux qui merdent le plus : outre les USA, on a les Pays-Bas, la Suède, le Royaume-Uni, la France.

#indicateurs

According to a survey of its members by an association representing 42,000 New York nurses, around 85 percent have already come into contact with COVID patients, but almost three-quarters do not have access to sufficient protective clothing.

Trump [...] claimed on Jan. 26 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, "We have it under control, it’s going to be just fine.”

Nothing could have been further from the truth. At the time, the CDC decided to develop its own test for the coronavirus rather than using a functioning one from the WHO. The test quickly turned out to be faulty, and as a result, weeks went by without anyone being able to determine how widely the disease had already spread in the U.S.

In early February, some state governors began requesting help from Washington, mainly in the form of protective clothing and ventilators from the Strategic National Stockpile. The national reserve was set up in 1999, overseen by some 200 employees at several secret locations. But the reserve has never been properly replenished since the H1N1 pandemic, the swine flu of 2009.

In one particularly disastrous move, [Trump] abolished the pandemic task force in the National Security Council that President Barack Obama set up after the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

Both have tried to sign up for the Cares unemployment program relaunched by Congress to help people make ends meet over the next few months, “but the website keeps crashing,” says Karlin, "everything is totally overloaded.” They’ve also been trying to get through on the telephone hotline, but they’ve had no luck there either. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are going through similar experiences right now. They’re sitting at home in front of their computers trying to figure out what to do with their lives now that they are unemployed.

►https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-american-patient-how-trump-is-fueling-a-corona-disaster-a-024a5cc9-2c07-

After Anonymous Tip, 17 Bodies Found at Nursing Home Hit by Virus
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27 janvier 2020, Forbes : The Countries Best And Worst Prepared For An Epidemic [Infographic]
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►https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/01/27/the-countries-best-and-worst-prepared-for-an-epidemic-infographic

COVID-19 gives the lie to global health expertise - The Lancet
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Et non seulement l’épidémie est la plus forte chez eux du fait de leur incurie criminelle, mais ils maintiennent leur embargo criminel contre les pays récalcitrants les empêchant de recevoir le matériel médical qui leur permettrait de mieux faire face à l’épidémie de covid-19,

As the #coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak began spreading in Europe and the USA, a chart started circulating online showing ratings from the 2019 Global Health Security Index, an assessment of 195 countries’ capacity to face infectious disease outbreaks, compiled by the US-based Nuclear Threat Initiative and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health’s Center for Health Security. The USA was ranked first, and the UK second; South Korea was ranked ninth, and China 51st; most African countries were at the bottom of the ranking.

Things look different now. The US and UK Governments have provided among the world’s worst responses to the pandemic, with sheer lies and incompetence from the former, and near-criminal delays and obfuscation from the latter. Neither country has widespread testing available, as strongly recommended by WHO, alongside treatment and robust contact tracing.1 In neither country do health workers have adequate access to personal protective equipment; nor are there nearly enough hospital beds to accommodate the onslaught of patients. Even worse, by refusing to ease #sanctions against Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba, the US has crippled the ability of other countries to respond, continuing to block medical supplies and other humanitarian aid. 2