Differing state responses a "major weakness" in US response, says Fauci

[DonViejo]

Source: CNN

From CNN's Amy Woodyatt

Differences in how individual US states have responded to coronavirus are a "major weakness" in the US' handling of the pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci has said.

"The states are very often given a considerable amount of leeway in doing things the way they want to do it, as opposed to in response to federal mandates, which are relatively rarely given," the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases told BBC Radio 4 in a segment that aired Monday.

"Although that works well for certain things, when you’re dealing with a pandemic, which doesn’t know the difference between the border of New York and New Jersey, or Florida and Georgia, or Texas and Oklahoma ... you have to have a degree of consistency in your response," he said, referencing shutdowns and reopening guidelines.

"What we’ve had was a considerable disparity with states doing things differently in a non-consistent way. There have been a lot of factors that have led to the fact that, unfortunately for us, the United States has been the hardest hit country in the world, but I believe that disparity among how states do things has been a major weakness in our response," he said.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-12-28-20/index.html

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The Hill is also running the story, based on the above article:

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/531787-fauci-states-differing-responses-a-major-weakness-in-fighting-coronavirus

[Eugene]

1. Dr. Fauci is being diplomatic.

It is one of the defining features of a cluster----.

[beachbumbob]

2. captain obvious, why any pandemic REQUIRES a national plan if you want to control outcome

to be a POSITIVE

[machoneman]

3. Hardest hit country in the world? Nah, it's fake news.

So, so easy to deny the facts.

[apnu]

4. This is the exact reason why we have a Federal government

To normalize national things when states can’t or won’t agree.

The Republican party is responsible here. Their jihad to destroy central government brought us here.

[PSPS]

5. Exactly. And it didn't help that we had a confederate president actively obstructing it.

[KPN]

6. But we got "FREEDOM!"

F'ing MAGAt morons ...

[IronLionZion]

7. The Federal government could have easily ramped up production of PPE, ventilators, cold storage

tests, screening of travelers, contact tracing, etc.

And issued guidelines to states to encourage as much consistency as possible. I get that we have states' rights but there is plenty the federal government can still do within their constitutional power once we have competent people in office to do their jobs correctly.

The Trump administration chose a do nothing approach on the assumption that mostly big cities and blue states would be impacted. They underestimated how stubbornly their own supporters would spread it around rural areas and red states. Assholes.

[BigmanPigman]

8. Wilson did the same thing during WW1

He didn't want to deal with it, he was focused on the war. Anti-mask protests and businesses in cities like Phila and San Francisco pressured the local govt to stay open or to open too early. We didn't learn and are repeating the same mistakes 100 years later.

[MichMan]

9. So, Cuomo, Whitmer, and Newsom needed Donnie to order them what to do?

Do we really want Federal officials usurping red state governors? Trump to prohibit any shutdowns for instance?