<div dir="ltr">Higher funding for the CDC may very well have ameliorated the quality control issues they had with the test kits that did get sent out.<div><br></div><div>It would probably *not* have helped with the policy and process issues that restricted local authorities from testing on their own initiative. That was a failure in leadership and organizational culture that I fear is entirely bipartisan.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 4:24 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 5:55 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> <i></i></span><i>The assumption is that a CDC funded with more money could have done better. That isn’t clear to me at all, and is based on a number of speculative assumptions. I keep hearing we didn’t have enough test kits and so forth, but</i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i> </i>[...]</span></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">I'm not surprised you keep hearing that, nor am I surprised you added a "but". So you're right and every <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">epidemiologist in the country is wrong when they insist that early testing is vitally important.</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span></font></div><div> </div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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