The United States was ranked as the best-prepared country for a pandemic in late 2019 by a Johns Hopkins study.
The United States was ranked the best-prepared country in the world to face a global pandemic in a study released by the Nuclear Threat Initiative and Johns Hopkins Center for Health and Security in late 2019. The findings, detailed in the 2019 Global Health Security Index, appear to challenge the claims made by Democrats in recent weeks that the Trump administration left the country ill-prepared and dangerously vulnerable to the spread of the novel coronavirus.
That’s what happens when the Democrats spin up a Narrative in support of their politics instead acknowledging that some things are better here in the US.
To produce the findings, researchers analyzed 195 countries around the world, working with “an international advisory panel of 21 experts from 13 countries to create a detailed and comprehensive framework of 140 questions, organized across 6 categories, 34 indicators, and 85 subindicators to assess a country’s capability to prevent and mitigate epidemics and pandemics. The six categories were prevent, detect, respond, health, norms, and risk.
BUT, of course, they “spanked” our system of health delivery at 175th out of 195 countries because “NOT SOCIALIST MEDICINE!”. Doesn’t matter that we have more hi-tech equipment, cutting edge procedures, and that the high and mighty and rich will almost ALWAYS make their way to the US to be treated. That anyone coming to an ER MUST be treated (EMTALA) regardless of ability to pay. That we have programs, at the State and Federal levels, to ensure that healthcare insurance is available to the aged and infirm.
If the sign doesn’t say “Single Payer” or “National Healthcare” (regardless of actual outcome), it’s a time for the BAD COUNTRY flag to be thrown.
BUT!
…the U.S. ranked at the top in the health category as a whole due to high scores in health capacity, medical countermeasures, communication, infection control, availability of equipment, and the capacity to test.
(H/T: The Blaze)
