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Thursday, March 26, 2020

Apple 9M Masks And Readiness

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Apple donating 9M coronavirus masks:
(may have to copy-paste link into browser to view fox article)
Vice President Mike Pence said Apple is donating 9 million N95 respiratory masks during a Tuesday press briefing on the novel coronavirus.
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Thank You Apple for this major and generous donation!
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Apple has 80,000 Apple employees and accounts for 2,000,000  Jobs across all 50 states
Question: why did Apple have Nine Million N95 masks in the first place?  Interesting!
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US was more prepared for pandemic than any other country, Johns Hopkins study found  ----  Really?
“The United States was ranked the best-prepared country in the world to handle a pandemic in late 2019 by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (JHCHS) -- an assessment seemingly at odds with claims by Democrats that the Trump administration left the country vulnerable to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.”
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How does this Johns Hopkins assessment compare to the results in South Korea?
South Korean CoronaVirus Success To Date
The South Koreans are having significant success in fighting and limiting the CoronaVirus.
It appears they were quick to identify the risk and had tools, assets and processes in-place that was quickly deployed.
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And relative to readiness responsibility:
It appears that Medical Facility Certificate-of-Public-Need (CON) Laws are a country-wide process based on national health programs like ObamaCare and Medicare; therefore:
It’s Not clear who is really ‘responsible’ for medical facility availability and capacity but it looks like a State Committee based on Business As Usual case loads and clearly not peak epidemics no less pandemic crisis.
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