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Elizabeth Warren has a plan for this, too

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  1. skybrian
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    From the article: [...] Note: she doesn't explain her original plan accurately. If you read the January plan, it doesn't mention masks, though there is a big picture of a mask at the top. Nor does...

    From the article:

    In January, Sen. Elizabeth Warren was the first presidential candidate to release a plan for combating coronavirus. In March, she released a second plan. Days later, with the scale of economic damage increasing, she released a third. Warren’s proposals track the spread of the virus: from a problem happening elsewhere and demanding a surge in global health resources and domestic preparation to a pandemic happening here, demanding not just a public health response but an all-out effort to save the US economy.

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    Elizabeth Warren

    Let’s start with the fact that if you want to get something done, you ought to have a plan. Back in January, I put out a plan that really focused on the importance of getting ready: making sure that we had all the masks and the gowns and the respirators and all the things health care professionals need, and opening up centers to help people if the health care system got overwhelmed. It was also focused on testing because the testing is crucial. We need enough test kits not just to test people who are showing raging symptoms, but enough test kits to be able to test people who appear to be healthy, so you can keep detecting it in the population and identify hot spots.

    Note: she doesn't explain her original plan accurately. If you read the January plan, it doesn't mention masks, though there is a big picture of a mask at the top. Nor does it mention respirators. For testing, it talks about side issues like ensuring that tests are representative of the entire population and prohibiting national labs from testing "novel viruses".

    It would be astonishing if she got all that right in January. But, why claim it now when it's so easily checked?

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