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Did you ever consider that the CDC guidelines for masks were intended to prevent hoarding so that those treating patients on the front lines could access them?

I'm sorry, I'll hold back next time.

The US has the most ICU beds per capita among all countries. Germany is a close second.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/03/12/the-co...

It's important to note the 1.2% case fatality rate includes all patients, including the 80% or so who do not require hospitalization.

This study was performed on a group requiring hospitalization, so a 1.2% mortality rate would appear extremely promising in that context.

The lack of a control group is frustrating, but the comparison to outcomes in untreated groups documented in China still makes me feel this treatment holds promise:

"For all other patients in this cohort of 80 people, the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin resulted in a clinical improvement that appeared significant when compared to the natural evolution in patients with a definite outcome, as described in the literature. In a cohort of 191 Chinese inpatients, of whom 95% received antibiotics and 21% received an association of lopinavir and ritonavir, the median duration of fever was 12 days and that of cough 19 days in survivors, with a 28% case-fatality rate (18). The favourable evolution of our patients under hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin was associated with a relatively rapid decrease in viral RNA load as assessed by PCR, which was even more rapid when assessed by culture."

The Communist Party enjoys the luxury of dissent being a punishable offense. The media, the citizenry, the private sector are all held hostage by the absolute authority of the Party.

I'm not sure why, but the media seems so eager to accept the official CCP narrative and take the lack of clear dissent from within China to mean China should be held up as a model Nation worthy of praise while simultaneously ignoring all the restrictions and brutality that force silent those who otherwise might have much to complain about.

Deference to China by naive journalists and other useful idiots must be checked.

My question was rhetorical. I was responding to the headline.

How can you claim we have a testing failure when we now have more weekly testing capacity than any other nation on Earth?

Sure we were slow to start, but saying we failed implies that's the end of the story.