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This is no longer a joke.

Republicans’ response to the Zika threat takes an offensive turn

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/republicans-response-the-zika-threat-takes-offensive-turn

Now the Speaker of the House says the president is politicizing the virus.

Dr. Thomas Frieden, the director of the CDC, told the New York Times yesterday, “This is no way to fight an epidemic. Three months is an eternity for control of an outbreak. There is a narrow window of opportunity here and it’s closing. Every day that passes makes it harder to stop Zika.”

Under the current GOP plan, it may be “well into the summer, or even longer” before Congress approves an inadequate final bill to address the Zika virus.

Ironically, in February, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) declared, “We need to get out in front of the Zika virus.” It’d be hilarious if the public-health threat weren’t so serious.