On February 9,2020, using publicly available data, a senior health official from the U.S. Department of VeteransAffairs warned key senior officials that COVID-19 was more transmissible and deadlier thanH1N1 and the U.S. was only a “couple of weeks” behind the spread in China
A search fails to reveal these communications.
In its February 24, 2020supplemental funding request, the Office of Management and Budget wrote, “[t]o this point, noagency has been inhibited in response efforts due to resources or authorities.
Here is some reporting on this supplemental reporting request. But I am unable to find the funding request itself.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/24/trump-coronavirus-budget-request-117275
The Strategic National Stockpile distributed the last of its PPE held for states on April 19,2020—the same day it made the decision to begin allocating PPE based on need, not population.
I cannot find this information in other places easily.
in May 2020 when the federal governmentdecided to extend a one-year federal PPE contract to that same PPE manufacturer, the companydeclined the contract offer
Have not been able to find record of this decline.
When one domestic PPE manufacturer sent multiple warnings and requests toramp up U.S. production throughout the months of January, February, and March 2020, thefederal government declined to engage
Have not been able to find this. Which PPE manufacturer? Are these warnings published?