Joanne Kenen, the executive editor of POLITICO’s health care coverage, walks us through the COVID-19 outbreak and America’s slow response
As the coronavirus pandemic has grown across the country, Joanne Kenen has spent these last few weeks like many Americans: phoning old friends, trying to entertain bored children, convincing her elderly mother to stock up on food and stay in. Then, of course, comes the demands of her day job — which at this moment, has become a day-and-night-every-day-and-every-night job — as the executive editor at the helm of POLITICO’s health care coverage.“I realized in January it was a huge story.
It's hard to measure what isn't happening. Do we know whether social distancing is "flattening the curve," making fewer people get sick at once, which allows our hospitals to cope with the people who are sick? I think it's probably working, but trying to get to a degree, trying to get data on something thathappen is hard.
In a pandemic year, I looked it up [for] 1957. And if I'm remembering the number correctly, something like 119,000 Americans [died]. A few weeks ago, I thought that's what we were looking at as a worst-case scenario. Now we know from the public health people, the worst-case scenario — and we may not get the worst-case scenario, it looks like it won't be — but it would be way more than 100,000 dead.
President Trump is saying it's the fault of the prior administrations tying their hands. No. Whether the test worked or not has nothing to do with whether you can quickly get another test. Germany developed tests, South Korea developed tests, China developed tests, the WHO was sending its tests out to something like 60 countries by February, and we decided not to use that.a test. If you wanted to develop the perfect, gold-standard test, fine.
I was more worried about the worst-case scenario a few days ago than I am right now, which doesn't mean I'm optimistic or I don't think it's going to be bad. I do think it's going to get bad.
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