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The CDC screwed us is why.
The CDC massively overpromised and massively underdelivered.

In Jan & Feb the CDC said they had tests completely in hand.
The CDC said it would produce the most and the best tests in the world.

Fauci, the NIH, Johns Hopkins, and every US pandemic "expert" told Trump the CDC was the world's premier agent in dealing with a pandemic. They told him to trust the CDC.

Are you intimating Trump should have ignored every US pandemic "expert", shut out the CDC, shut out US labs the CDC (inappropriately) called to question, and instead relied on internationally manufactured CV19 tests?

Pretty convenient revision of U.S. Government. The CDC is a sub-division of the Health & Human Services (HHS), a cabinet-level department of the current Presidential Administration.

Trump, the moron taking up air in the Oval Office as the current elected U.S. President, oversees and names the director of the HHS. A previous office for infectious diseases and bioterrorism under Obama was dismantled by former Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly under orders from Trump. The responsibilities of that office - formerly under the National Security Council - was moved to the HHS' authorities.

Trump worked since day one as President to cut funding and staffing of the CDC. His Administration oversaw:

The reduction from 47 to 14 American CDC staff at the Beijing CDC Office over the last 2 years, including a major medical epidemiologist expert who was a trainer of Chinese field epidemiologists who were deployed to the epicenter of outbreaks to help track, investigate and contain diseases. This CDC expert, Dr. Linda Quick, left her post in July 1999.

Separately, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the global relief program which had a role in helping China monitor and respond to outbreaks, also shut their Beijing offices on Trump’s watch. Before the closures, each office was staffed by a U.S. official.

In addition, the U.S. Department of Agriculture(USDA) transferred out of China in 2018 the manager of an animal disease monitoring program.

The CDC's handling of the development of the contaminated initial COVID-19 tests have been investigated by the FDA, and they found the supervision and leadership of the flawed manufacturing processes that violated the CDC's own standards, was non-existent.

All of this were the major building blocks for the foundation of the United States' slow and studdering response and preparation for the COVID-19 spread throughout the nation. The Captain of that ship was always Donald Trump.

And even today, late in this pandemic, Trump is still out there stumbling about. Still out there with little to no effective plan in regards to dealing with COVID-19, and getting the nation back on it's feet. The most effective plans have come from state leadership. Trump has been left to being effectively some idiot on the sidelines eating popcorn and cheering on the game. We have an armchair QB for our U.S. President. There will be a reckoning....

This post was edited on 4/25/20 at 6:05 am