The Sheer Relief of a President Who Takes COVID Seriously
54 years, 11 months ago

The Sheer Relief of a President Who Takes COVID Seriously

Slate  

After being sworn in as president of the United States on Wednesday, before a sparse, spaced-out crowd and a mall filled out with American flags instead of people, Joe Biden will sign an executive order requiring everyone to wear masks and social distance on federal property. I’ve typed out sentences like that so many times over the course of the past several months that the former president’s disdain for basic safety measures has became almost boring, despite its profound and distressing absurdity. Even imagining that the incoming president might ask folks to wear masks in his new home felt novel, let alone that he will take steps to encourage the rest of the country to do the same. * To encourage Americans in general to wear masks, he will launch a “100 Days Masking Challenge,” which, yes, sounds slightly hokey, but that is who Joe Biden is and frankly, it is great that the president is encouraging people to wear masks.

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Trump’s botched COVID response has been largely forgotten, but it's crucial we remember
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Trump’s botched COVID response has been largely forgotten, but it's crucial we remember

Salon  

At a campaign event in Allentown, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, former President Donald Trump asked the crowd a question Ronald Reagan also asked voters in the 1980 election against Jimmy Carter, and one many presidents before have asked. “People are still framing questions like that as if where we were four years ago was not in the early stages of a …

5 Things COVID Experts Personally Won't Do Right Now In This Latest Surge
1 year, 3 months ago

5 Things COVID Experts Personally Won't Do Right Now In This Latest Surge

Huff Post  

andreswd via Getty Images Here's how infectious disease experts are managing their COVID-19 risk. “As I have gray hair, I’m in a higher-risk group just on the basis of age, so I’ve been wearing my mask at indoor events continuously,” Schaffner said. “My wife and I are major caregivers for a family member who is receiving cancer chemotherapy, so we’re …

President Joe Biden ends US Covid emergency status after 3 years
1 year, 8 months ago

President Joe Biden ends US Covid emergency status after 3 years

India Today  

The US national emergency to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic ended Monday as President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan congressional resolution to bring it to a close after three years — weeks before it was set to expire alongside a separate public health emergency. The public health emergency — it underpins tough immigration restrictions at the US-Mexico border — is …

President Biden to end COVID-19 emergencies on May 11
1 year, 10 months ago

President Biden to end COVID-19 emergencies on May 11

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden informed Congress on Monday that he will end the twin national emergencies for addressing COVID-19 on May 11, as most of the world has returned closer to normalcy nearly three years after they were first declared. Then-President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar first declared a public health emergency on Jan. 31, …

Biden administration to end COVID public health emergency in May
1 year, 10 months ago

Biden administration to end COVID public health emergency in May

Al Jazeera  

The move would restructure federal response to treat the virus as an endemic public health threat, ending some government support. United States President Joe Biden has informed Congress that his administration will formally end two national emergencies declared to address the COVID-19 pandemic on May 11, restructuring the federal response to the virus as an endemic public health threat. “An …

President Biden to end COVID-19 emergencies on May 11
1 year, 10 months ago

President Biden to end COVID-19 emergencies on May 11

LA Times  

President Biden talks with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Monday, after returning from an event in Baltimore. Then-President Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar first declared a public health emergency on Jan. 31, 2020, and Trump later declared the COVID-19 pandemic a national emergency that March. “An abrupt end to the …

Biden said the pandemic is over, but the pandemic won’t cooperate
1 year, 11 months ago

Biden said the pandemic is over, but the pandemic won’t cooperate

LA Times  

Three years after the United States logged its first case of COVID-19, the pandemic has slipped off the front pages and seemingly out of public consciousness. “We’ve reached what I would call a level of détente with the virus,” said Jay Varma, an infectious disease specialist at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. “I would say there’s a lot …

Biden administration extends COVID public health emergency
2 years, 2 months ago

Biden administration extends COVID public health emergency

LA Times  

White House COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha speaks during the daily briefing at the White House on Oct. 11. The Biden administration said Thursday that the COVID-19 public health emergency will continue through Jan. 11, as officials brace for a spike in cases this winter. The public health emergency, first declared in January 2020 under the Trump administration and renewed …

COVID is Here to Stay In a Milder Endemic Form, So Will Masking and Vaccination
2 years, 7 months ago

COVID is Here to Stay In a Milder Endemic Form, So Will Masking and Vaccination

News 18  

On my long flight to the US a couple of weeks ago, I had plenty of time to think about the COVID pandemic and ponder how things were last year this time, how it is now and how would it be a year from now. All these measures helped us considerably in facing the third wave, which came on the …

COVID leaves lasting scars as Biden marks first year in office
2 years, 11 months ago

COVID leaves lasting scars as Biden marks first year in office

Al Jazeera  

Victims’ families say they are still grappling with deep pain as US President Joe Biden vows to keep fighting the coronavirus. “For many of us, it’s been too much to bear,” Biden said during a news conference at the White House on the eve of his presidency’s official one-year mark on Thursday. “We’re in a very different place now, though; …

Biden's major COVID speech on Tuesday will NOT be about 'locking the country down'
3 years ago

Biden's major COVID speech on Tuesday will NOT be about 'locking the country down'

Daily Mail  

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that President Biden's planned Tuesday address is 'not a speech about locking the country down,' but will focus on a drive for vaccinations. Psaki said that Biden on Tuesday will 'absolutely' address frustrations Americans feel about a lack of testing availability across the country Cars wait in line at a COVID-19 drive-through testing …

New wave of coronavirus infections next autumn seems unavoidable, experts say
3 years, 1 month ago

New wave of coronavirus infections next autumn seems unavoidable, experts say

NL Times  

Medical experts told NOS that a spike in coronavirus infections next fall is likely despite an increasing number of people fully vaccinated against Covid-19. Extra measures, such as face masks, to stop the spread of the coronavirus will continue to be part of daily life, the experts said. Yet, the experts said that additional measures to prevent the spread of …

Relaxing Covid measures too soon could be disastrous: Acute Care boss
3 years, 4 months ago

Relaxing Covid measures too soon could be disastrous: Acute Care boss

NL Times  

If the coronavirus measures are relaxed too soon, the number of infections will spike - with the Delta variant and the still too low herd immunity, maybe to 10 thousand per day, Ernest Kuipers, head of the national acute care network LNAZ, said to Nieuwsuur. "We take growth into account when there is more mobility: people go back to work, …

Analysis: The pandemic may be better, but it’s not over
3 years, 5 months ago

Analysis: The pandemic may be better, but it’s not over

CNN  

CNN — Four days after President Joe Biden declared the darkest days of the pandemic over, America is facing a burst of challenges that indicate Covid-19 is far from releasing its grip. “It is hard to imagine we are going to be able to immunize 200 to 300 million people every year to this,” Dr Zeke Emanuel, a former health …

Trump was personally terrified of Covid and thought Boris Johnson was going to die, new book claims
3 years, 5 months ago

Trump was personally terrified of Covid and thought Boris Johnson was going to die, new book claims

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Former President Donald Trump believed that Prime Minister Boris Johnson …

COVID-19 Stories: How US 2020 elections distracted me from the pandemic
3 years, 6 months ago

COVID-19 Stories: How US 2020 elections distracted me from the pandemic

Hindustan Times  

Farah Adil lives in Chicago. Their value system aligned with what I believed in and I campaigned my heart out making phone calls, writing postcards, and even creating a video to target Indian Americans to vote for our current President. I’ve been a writer and a journalist and while going to every protest since Trump became president feels rewarding, it …

It’s ‘premature’ and ‘unrealistic’ to think COVID-19 will end soon, WHO warns
3 years, 9 months ago

It’s ‘premature’ and ‘unrealistic’ to think COVID-19 will end soon, WHO warns

LA Times  

A senior World Health Organization official said Monday it was “premature” and “unrealistic” to think the COVID-19 pandemic will be over by the end of the year, but that the recent arrival of effective vaccines could at least help dramatically reduce hospitalizations and death. WHO’s director-general, meanwhile, said it was “regrettable” that younger and healthier adults in some rich countries …

Coronavirus pandemic, Year Two: Here’s what to expect
3 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus pandemic, Year Two: Here’s what to expect

CNN  

CNN — Our global coronavirus nightmare is entering its second year, and we’re hanging on the best we can. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Some states have said they don’t have enough supplies of the Pfizer vaccine while the manufacturer reported millions of unclaimed doses, adding to the confusion. Even with the delays and questions about who should get the vaccines first, …

Opinion: America’s Covid vaccine campaign is not a disaster
3 years, 11 months ago

Opinion: America’s Covid vaccine campaign is not a disaster

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Kent Sepkowitz is a CNN medical analyst and a physician and infection control expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Dr. Kent Sepkowitz - I therefore would like to comment on the current profound disappointment many in the United States – from President-elect Joe Biden to prominent physicians, to talking heads parading across our screens …

President Trump throws Covid relief bill in doubt by asking Congress to amend it
4 years ago

President Trump throws Covid relief bill in doubt by asking Congress to amend it

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he is asking for changes to the coronavirus relief bill passed by Congress, leaving the future of the $900 billion stimulus in doubt. “I’m asking Congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low $600 to $2000 or $4000 per couple,” Trump said in a video released on Twitter. It really …

Trump fights for a job that he’s not doing as coronavirus rages
4 years ago

Trump fights for a job that he’s not doing as coronavirus rages

CNN  

CNN — When the history of the pandemic is written, one of the great mysteries will be what President Donald Trump was doing in the waning days of his presidency as the number of Covid-19 deaths in the US soared past 3,000 each day, the virus spread unchecked and Congress dithered over the details of an emergency relief package that …

What could Trump have done to produce a different election outcome?
4 years ago

What could Trump have done to produce a different election outcome?

LA Times  

Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump was, oddly, both robust and slim. A close-up of President Trump’s notes for a speech shows “Corona” crossed out in favor of “Chinese” to describe the virus. What prompted headlines, however, was Trump’s declaration that he saw himself as a “wartime president” who was asking the country to make sacrifices for the common good. …

‘Merry Christmas’: Biden urges Congress and Trump to rush Covid aid to struggling Americans before the holidays
4 years ago

‘Merry Christmas’: Biden urges Congress and Trump to rush Covid aid to struggling Americans before the holidays

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Calling the November jobs …

White House Urges Vigilance On Coronavirus But Rejects Lockdowns As Solution
4 years, 1 month ago

White House Urges Vigilance On Coronavirus But Rejects Lockdowns As Solution

NPR  

White House Urges Vigilance On Coronavirus But Rejects Lockdowns As Solution Enlarge this image toggle caption Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images The White House Coronavirus Task Force and President-elect Joe Biden separately gave updates on the worsening COVID-19 pandemic and how their teams were working to defeat it as health officials on Thursday warned against holiday travel to limit …

Donald Trump’s stunning abdication of leadership comes as coronavirus pandemic worsens
4 years, 1 month ago

Donald Trump’s stunning abdication of leadership comes as coronavirus pandemic worsens

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump had predicted in almost every campaign rally that the media would stop talking about the coronavirus pandemic the day after the election. Before the election, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows had signaled the way ahead by claiming on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the pandemic could not be controlled. Vice President Mike …

Trump's Chief of Staff Who Attended Events Without Mask is Covid Positive and Nobody is Surprised
4 years, 1 month ago

Trump's Chief of Staff Who Attended Events Without Mask is Covid Positive and Nobody is Surprised

News 18  

“I’m not going to talk through a mask.” As daily COVID-19 cases keep piling up in the US, Donald Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows testing positive for the infection hasn’t come as a shocker to the citizens. Recall that White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was at the election night party in the East Room attended by 400 …

COVID-19, Unemployment: Factors Riding Against Trump’s Re-Election
4 years, 1 month ago

COVID-19, Unemployment: Factors Riding Against Trump’s Re-Election

The Quint  

Trump, who recently contracted and then recovered from COVID himself, has been roundly criticised for his handling of the pandemic, not just by his opponents but also voters, a majority of whom say that he handled the crisis poorly, according to AFP. Biden has cited Trump’s mishandling of the coronavirus as the primary reason for him not being worthy of …

Covid-19 Vaccine Ready & Coming Within Weeks: Trump at Final Presidential Debate with Biden
4 years, 2 months ago

Covid-19 Vaccine Ready & Coming Within Weeks: Trump at Final Presidential Debate with Biden

News 18  

US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that a COVID-19 vaccine is “ready” and going to be announced “within weeks” to combat the deadly disease that has killed over 223,000 Americans, as he debated with his Democratic challenger Joe Biden for the final time before the presidential election. It’s going to be announced within weeks and it’s going to be …

COVID-19 vaccine ready, coming within weeks: Trump at final presidential debate with Biden
4 years, 2 months ago

COVID-19 vaccine ready, coming within weeks: Trump at final presidential debate with Biden

India TV News  

US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that a COVID-19 vaccine is "ready" and going to be announced "within weeks" to combat the deadly disease that has killed over 223,000 Americans, as he debated with his Democratic challenger Joe Biden for the final time before the presidential election. The coronavirus dominated the opening minutes of the Trump-Biden face-off in Nashville …

New coronavirus surge in the US: What you need to know
4 years, 2 months ago

New coronavirus surge in the US: What you need to know

Al Jazeera  

Several states report spike in hospitalisations and jumps in new cases, raising concerns of a ‘third wave’. “Things are starting to move in a concerning direction,” Justin Lessler, associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told Al Jazeera. Learn more: https://t.co/1nMYQAjpSq pic.twitter.com/iObgUYrTeE — CDC October 21, 2020 Amesh Adalja, senior scholar at Johns Hopkins …

Erin Burnett Dismantles One Of Donald Trump’s Most Repeated Lies About COVID-19
4 years, 2 months ago

Erin Burnett Dismantles One Of Donald Trump’s Most Repeated Lies About COVID-19

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Erin Burnett on Friday debunked one of President Donald Trump’s most repeated and dangerous lies about the coronavirus pandemic — that the United States is “rounding the turn” on the public health crisis. Trump has publicly claimed “for months and months and months” that the outbreak is almost over, noted the host of CNN’s “Outfront.” But Burnett …

Opinion: White House’s new Covid-19 strategy is madness
4 years, 2 months ago

Opinion: White House’s new Covid-19 strategy is madness

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Jeffrey D. Sachs is a professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. CNN — As if Donald Trump’s irresponsibility was not already a national tragedy, the White House seems now to favor a controversial approach to Covid-19 that threatens to bring nothing less than mass suffering. Yet on Tuesday, senior Trump administration officials …

Donald Trump no longer at risk of transmitting COVID-19, says White House doctor
4 years, 2 months ago

Donald Trump no longer at risk of transmitting COVID-19, says White House doctor

Firstpost  

Washington: The White House doctor said Saturday night that President Donald Trump is no longer at risk of transmitting the coronavirus, a diagnosis that comes as the president prepares to resume campaign rallies and other activities. The memo followed Trump’s first public appearance since returning to the White House after being treated for the coronavirus. Trump’s return to public activity …

US President Donald Trump Says Getting Covid-19 Was a 'Blessing From God'
4 years, 2 months ago

US President Donald Trump Says Getting Covid-19 Was a 'Blessing From God'

News 18  

President Donald Trump, still confined to the White House where he is being treated for COVID-called it a “blessing from God” that he got coronavirus, a disease that has killed over 211,000 Americans this year. “I think this was a blessing from God that I caught it,” the president said of COVID-19 in a video message outside the White House …

Donald Trump fears coronavirus: Urgency US president showed in seeking treatment puts paid to lies about pandemic
4 years, 2 months ago

Donald Trump fears coronavirus: Urgency US president showed in seeking treatment puts paid to lies about pandemic

Firstpost  

The facts of Trump’s experience with coronavirus, including how how quickly it sickened him to the point of requiring intensive medical care, are the best tools to fight the misinformation campaign against COVID-19 Something momentous happened late last week, a brief pinprick of clarity piercing through the haze: President Donald Trump finally showed Americans the truth about the coronavirus. But …

Donald Trump says COVID is like the FLU and 'are we going to close our country down for the flu?'
4 years, 2 months ago

Donald Trump says COVID is like the FLU and 'are we going to close our country down for the flu?'

Daily Mail  

President Donald Trump compared COVID to the flu on Tuesday telling Americans to 'live with it' - as he faces a storm of criticism for underplaying the very virus for which he was treated in Walter Reed hospital. President Donald Trump appeared to confuse the flu and COVID after his dramatic return to the White House on Monday night But …

’Don’t be afraid’ of covid, Trump says as he returns to White House that is stalked by illness
4 years, 2 months ago

’Don’t be afraid’ of covid, Trump says as he returns to White House that is stalked by illness

Live Mint  

President Donald Trump told Americans "to get out there" and not fear COVID-19 as he returned to the White House on Monday after a three-night hospital stay to be treated for the virus and removed his white surgical mask to pose for pictures. But Conley said the medical team believed Trump was ready to leave the hospital, stressing he would …

Trump Halts Coronavirus Relief Talks Until After The Election
4 years, 2 months ago

Trump Halts Coronavirus Relief Talks Until After The Election

NPR  

Trump Halts Coronavirus Relief Talks Until After The Election Enlarge this image toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Updated at 4:55 p.m. In a series of tweets, Trump said he has rejected Democrats' latest proposal for a more than $2 trillion relief bill because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "is not negotiating in good faith." …

John Oliver slams White House for ‘terribly’ mishandling Trump’s COVID diagnosis
4 years, 2 months ago

John Oliver slams White House for ‘terribly’ mishandling Trump’s COVID diagnosis

LA Times  

John Oliver had quite a week to recap Sunday on “Last Week Tonight.” During the latest episode of his weekend late-night program, the Emmy winner responded to what he called “shocking and utterly inevitable” news that President Trump, First Lady Melania Trump and several other White House figures had tested positive for COVID-19. “Obviously, the president having the coronavirus is …

White House Struggles To Explain, Contain Its Own Spiraling COVID-19 Crisis
4 years, 2 months ago

White House Struggles To Explain, Contain Its Own Spiraling COVID-19 Crisis

NPR  

White House Struggles To Explain, Contain Its Own Spiraling COVID-19 Crisis Enlarge this image toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images The White House is struggling on Monday to show that it has a burgeoning public health and political crisis under control as President Trump enters his third day of aggressive and experimental treatment for …

October surprise: Trump in quarantine
4 years, 2 months ago

October surprise: Trump in quarantine

Live Mint  

It has been called a great leveller before, and so it’s turning out to be, in a perverse way, now that the world’s most powerful person has contracted coronavirus. On Friday, news broke that US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania had tested covid positive and would be in quarantine. Beyond the irony of the president’s mockery of his …

Donald Trump, Melania test positive: 'COVID will go away without a vaccine'; from denying severity to hailing US response, what president said
4 years, 2 months ago

Donald Trump, Melania test positive: 'COVID will go away without a vaccine'; from denying severity to hailing US response, what president said

Firstpost  

Trump has been found to be the world’s biggest driver of COVID-19 misinformation during the pandemic, a Cornell University study concluded US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for coronavirus and have gone into quarantine, hours after one of his closes aides Hope Hicks was found to have COVID-19. Maybe I should have done that instead …

Donald Trump and Melania test positive for coronavirus, to begin quarantine process immediately
4 years, 2 months ago

Donald Trump and Melania test positive for coronavirus, to begin quarantine process immediately

Firstpost  

This comes just hours after the White House announced that senior aide Hope Hicks came down with the virus after traveling with the president several times this week US president Donald Trump and his wife Melania have tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Friday. Hicks travelled with the president multiple times this week, including aboard Marine One, the presidential …

Timeline: How Trump Has Downplayed The Coronavirus Pandemic
4 years, 2 months ago

Timeline: How Trump Has Downplayed The Coronavirus Pandemic

NPR  

Timeline: How Trump Has Downplayed The Coronavirus Pandemic Enlarge this image toggle caption Carolyn Kaster/AP Carolyn Kaster/AP President Trump, who announced overnight that he and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus, has repeatedly downplayed the severity of the coronavirus pandemic and often contradicted public health experts and members of his own administration in their more grave …

What virus? At GOP's convention, pandemic is largely ignored
4 years, 3 months ago

What virus? At GOP's convention, pandemic is largely ignored

India Today  

It was a scene from a bygone era: Vice President Mike Pence shaking hands with and fist-bumping audience members who had rushed forward, standing shoulder to shoulder, to greet him and the president after Pence's speech at the Republican National Convention. Some told reporters they had not been tested for the coronavirus before Wednesday night's gathering at Fort McHenry in …

Coronavirus Updates: China authorises emergency use of COVID-19 vaccines developed by Chinese companies
4 years, 4 months ago

Coronavirus Updates: China authorises emergency use of COVID-19 vaccines developed by Chinese companies

Firstpost  

11:48 PM Whatsapp Facebook Twitter Coronavirus in US LATEST Updates Trump pushes for COVID-19 treatments, claims slowdown at FDA Pushing for breakthroughs in treatments for the coronavirus, White House officials suggested Sunday there were politically motivated delays by the Food and Drug Administration in approving a vaccine and therapeutics for the disease. The accusations, the latest assault from President Donald …

Infectious Disease Experts On What Frustrates Them Most During COVID-19
4 years, 4 months ago

Infectious Disease Experts On What Frustrates Them Most During COVID-19

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING As the coronavirus pandemic rages on in the United States, infectious disease experts continue to work tirelessly in spite of their exhaustion and frustration. Here’s what infectious disease experts told us is frustrating them the most at this stage of the pandemic: People are disobeying public health guidelines, putting themselves and others at risk. It is the …

Coronavirus Updates: Health ministry secretary Lav Agarwal tests COVID-19 positive, to observe home isolation
4 years, 4 months ago

Coronavirus Updates: Health ministry secretary Lav Agarwal tests COVID-19 positive, to observe home isolation

Firstpost  

8:28 PM Whatsapp Facebook Twitter Coronavirus in India Latest Updates Kovind praises India’s ‘super-human efforts’ in containing COVID-19 President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday appreciated the “super-human efforts” in containing the magnitude of the coronavirus pandemic in the country and said these are “worth emulating” by the wider world. In his address to the nation on the eve of the …

Trump still not grasping the severity of the pandemic, source tells CNN
4 years, 4 months ago

Trump still not grasping the severity of the pandemic, source tells CNN

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump was still struggling to fully grasp the severity of the coronavirus pandemic during a task force meeting in the Oval Office on Tuesday, a source familiar with the meeting told CNN. “He does not get it.” Trump’s meeting with the task force in the Oval Office was his first in-depth meeting with the panel of …

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