Trump says he may 'reopen' US in three weeks against advice of doctors who 'want to keep world shut forever'
4 years, 9 months ago

Trump says he may 'reopen' US in three weeks against advice of doctors who 'want to keep world shut forever'

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. "Our country wasn't built to be shut down," Mr Trump said during an evening briefing at the White House. Appearing to know that local and state officials would not be bound by any presidential decree to "open" up the country, he said "governors will have a lot of leeway" on they respond. Still, he said "it's going to get bad" while also touting the flu as possibly being a bigger killer, projecting influenza might cause 50,000 deaths in America this year. But last week, his top infectious disease official, Anthony Fauci said this about the car accidents comparison: ""That's totally way out.

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‘Shameful': US virus deaths top 400K as Trump leaves office
3 years, 11 months ago

‘Shameful': US virus deaths top 400K as Trump leaves office

Associated Press  

As President Donald Trump entered the final year of his term last January, the U.S. recorded its first confirmed case of COVID-19. “This is just one step on an ominous path of fatalities,” said Dr. Irwin Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University and one of many public health experts who contend the Trump administration’s …

Trump says US will not have anymore shutdowns, advocates opening of schools
4 years, 4 months ago

Trump says US will not have anymore shutdowns, advocates opening of schools

India Today  

Even as coronavirus cases continue to mount in the United States, President Donald Trump on Thursday said that the crisis was coming to a close in the US. “We’re rounding the final turn,” Trump said while lauding the US, adding, "US has done really well, we are proud of everyone who is working towards that. The president warned that, if …

Trump’s aggressive stance on virus treatments raises concerns about putting politics ahead of safety
4 years, 4 months ago

Trump’s aggressive stance on virus treatments raises concerns about putting politics ahead of safety

CNN  

CNN — As President Donald Trump races to reassure Americans that good news is on the way before the November election, there are concerns that efforts to fast-track coronavirus therapeutics and a vaccine are putting politics before health and safety. The document’s bullet points include, “Develop a Vaccine by The End Of 2020” and “Return to Normal in 2021.” “And …

joe Biden says he would shut down US to stop coronavirus if scientists recommended it
4 years, 4 months ago

joe Biden says he would shut down US to stop coronavirus if scientists recommended it

CNN  

CNN — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said, if elected, he would be willing to shut down the country again should there be a second wave of coronavirus in the US and scientists recommend the move to slow its spread. I would listen to the scientists,” the former vice president told ABC News’ David Muir during a joint interview with …

Analysis: Trump’s push to reopen the US economy backfires
4 years, 5 months ago

Analysis: Trump’s push to reopen the US economy backfires

Al Jazeera  

Behind Biden in public opinion polls, Trump is in a ‘precarious’ political position as 2020 re-election campaign begins. After low turnout at a much-hyped Trump rally in Oklahoma, Karl Rove, the Republican mastermind behind former President George W Bush’s winning campaigns, told the television outlet Fox News that the president needed to hit the “reset” button on his campaign. “Trump …

Alex Azar: ‘Window is closing’ for US to get coronavirus under control
4 years, 6 months ago

Alex Azar: ‘Window is closing’ for US to get coronavirus under control

CNN  

CNN — Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar warned Sunday that the “window is closing” for the United States to get the coronavirus pandemic under control, as confirmed cases are surging in a majority of the country and some states are dealing with record numbers of hospitalizations. “Things are very different from two months ago… So it is a …

Donald Trump’s post-Covid bubble is popping
4 years, 6 months ago

Donald Trump’s post-Covid bubble is popping

CNN  

CNN — America’s single worst day of new coronavirus cases obliterated President Donald Trump’s fantasyland vision of a post-Covid America – even as he sowed new diversions in an effort to hide the reality of his leadership void in a deepening national crisis. Yet on Thursday, Trump climbed aboard Air Force One for the third time in five days for …

Trump scrambles to suppress inconvenient information with Bolton book and coronavirus
4 years, 6 months ago

Trump scrambles to suppress inconvenient information with Bolton book and coronavirus

CNN  

CNN — There’s a common motivation in the White House’s attempt to suppress John Bolton’s book and its state of denial over alarming new trends in the coronavirus pandemic: President Donald Trump doesn’t want Americans to see information that could harm him or the narrative he has constructed. They’re in denial,” an official familiar with the work of the White …

Pence Says All 50 States Reopening In 'Responsible Manner.' Fauci Says Otherwise.
4 years, 6 months ago

Pence Says All 50 States Reopening In 'Responsible Manner.' Fauci Says Otherwise.

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Vice President Mike Pence painted a rosy ― and misleading ― portrait of the U.S. government’s response to the coronavirus and the current state of the crisis in an op-ed published Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal. In one section, Pence, whom President Donald Trump appointed in late February to lead the White House’s coronavirus task force, …

Fauci warns early Covid-19 reopening could ‘set you back,’ cause deaths
4 years, 6 months ago

Fauci warns early Covid-19 reopening could ‘set you back,’ cause deaths

Live Mint  

Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease official, warned against reopening the economy too soon, telling a Senate panel Thursday that communities doing so risk new coronavirus outbreaks. The checkpoints that Fauci cited call for a succession of steps toward gradual reopening, including a “downward trajectory” of documented cases or positive coronavirus tests “within a 14-day period.” The panel’s Republican …

Trump: Fauci remarks on risks to reopening economy unacceptable
4 years, 7 months ago

Trump: Fauci remarks on risks to reopening economy unacceptable

Al Jazeera  

Anthony Fauci, the US’s top infectious disease expert, said prematurely lifting lockdowns could lead to new outbreaks. US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said a warning given by top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci this week about the dangers of reopening the economy too quickly was unacceptable. “To me, it’s not an acceptable answer,” Trump told reporters at the …

Coronavirus: Fauci to warn on risk of opening US economy too soon
4 years, 7 months ago

Coronavirus: Fauci to warn on risk of opening US economy too soon

Al Jazeera  

Top expert will tell Senate that reopening economy too soon may result in ‘needless suffering and death’, report says. A senior health official set to testify before the US Senate will warn legislators about the risks of reopening the economy too soon, saying it could lead to “needless suffering and death”, according to the New York Times. Monday’s report about …

Reopening the economy is a massive experiment
4 years, 7 months ago

Reopening the economy is a massive experiment

CNN  

New York CNN Business — As the United States begins to reopen its economy, debates rage world-wide about how to balance economic hardship with a public health hazard. With no easy answers to the dilemma, Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic adviser for Allianz, says the focus needs to be on learning from the “massive experiment.” “The reality is that we are …

US coronavirus death toll passes 80,000 as states move to phased reopening
4 years, 7 months ago

US coronavirus death toll passes 80,000 as states move to phased reopening

CNN  

CNN — The US coronavirus death toll passed 80,000, far and away the most reported deaths of any country in the world, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. As such, Cuomo said parts of upstate New York will be able to begin a phased reopening on Friday when the state’s shutdown order expires. At the peak of the state’s …

Trump’s push to reopen comes as hopes for a quick recovery fades
4 years, 8 months ago

Trump’s push to reopen comes as hopes for a quick recovery fades

CNN  

Washington CNN — To staffers inside the White House, it was clear by mid-April the “big bang” economic revival once predicted by President Donald Trump wasn’t in the cards. “They aren’t hearing it,” said one person with direct knowledge of internal White House discussions who noted those closest to the President, including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and top economic adviser …

President Trump Wants To Reopen Economy Despite CDC Warnings
4 years, 8 months ago

President Trump Wants To Reopen Economy Despite CDC Warnings

NPR  

President Trump Wants To Reopen Economy Despite CDC Warnings NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Betsey Stevenson, an economist at the University of Michigan, and Eric Toner, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, about reopening the economy. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We're going to lose anywhere from 75-, 80- to a hundred thousand - that's a horrible thing. …

US death projection doubles in leading model as Dr Fauci warns against opening too soon
4 years, 8 months ago

US death projection doubles in leading model as Dr Fauci warns against opening too soon

The Telegraph  

In the past two weeks, several US states have introduced plans for phased reopenings amid mounting pressure from protesters who have grown frustrated at the heavy toll the lockdowns have taken. Dr Fauci also warned that states reopening could be "inviting a rebound". However Donald Trump attempted to play down the significance of the new death toll projection as he …

Trump will have to face the price of reopening the US economy: tens of thousands of American lives
4 years, 8 months ago

Trump will have to face the price of reopening the US economy: tens of thousands of American lives

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump now knows the price of the haunting bargain required to reopen the country – tens of thousands more lives in a pandemic that is getting worse not better. But in an interview published in Tuesday’s edition of the New York Post, Trump said Americans were ready come out of isolation and get back to normal …

Trump pushes economy reopening, says coronavirus could kill 100,000
4 years, 8 months ago

Trump pushes economy reopening, says coronavirus could kill 100,000

Live Mint  

Pushing to reopen the economy, President Donald Trump insists that states can gradually lift lockdowns and still protect people from the coronavirus pandemic, even as he's also suggesting US deaths could reach 100,000. “Look, we’re going to lose anywhere from 75,000, 80,000 to 100,000 people,” Trump said. This should have been stopped in China.” But he struck a note of …

Donald Trump pushes for an economic reopening
4 years, 8 months ago

Donald Trump pushes for an economic reopening

The Telegraph  

Federal guidelines that encouraged people to stay at home and practice social distancing expired late last week. Larry Kudlow, Mr Trump's top economic adviser, on Sunday predicted a "spectacular 2021" - with "the right set of policies" - on top of a rebound from July through to December of this year. He said on CNN's State of the Union that …

Trump is fighting a public health crisis with denial and self-promotion (opinion)
4 years, 8 months ago

Trump is fighting a public health crisis with denial and self-promotion (opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Frida Ghitis, a former CNN producer and correspondent, is a world affairs columnist. Frida Ghitis CNN “Strong” is not the word that comes to mind looking at the country with the world’s highest number of Covid-19 deaths – a number that keeps growing with every passing hour. “We did a spectacular job,” he said, echoing the message from …

Land of the free: Majority of US states begin to reopen as America enters new coronavirus phase
4 years, 8 months ago

Land of the free: Majority of US states begin to reopen as America enters new coronavirus phase

The Telegraph  

A majority of US states will partially reopen in the coming days as America enters a transition phase now the peak of coronavirus cases nationwide is believed to have passed. Senior US scientific advisers have warned that the change cannot be made like a “light switch” and remain concerned of a potential second wave of cases when autumn arrives. A …

Trump and Kushner show depth of disconnect with Americans on the front lines
4 years, 8 months ago

Trump and Kushner show depth of disconnect with Americans on the front lines

CNN  

CNN — It’s fine for Jared Kushner to mock the “eternal lockdown crowd” worried about state reopenings – he doesn’t have to clock in at a meat factory, drive a bus or work in an emergency room. “The eternal lockdown crowd can make jokes on television but the reality is is that the data’s on our side and President Trump …

Trump plans on 'sacrificing others' with new coronavirus strategy, former Bush aide warns
4 years, 8 months ago

Trump plans on 'sacrificing others' with new coronavirus strategy, former Bush aide warns

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. David Fum, who was credited with coining the “axis …

April 28, 2020 coronavirus news
4 years, 8 months ago

April 28, 2020 coronavirus news

CNN  

Health workers conduct Covid-19 tests at a drive-through testing site in Sanford, Florida on April 27. If you’re just joining us, here are the latest developments: Concerns dismissed: US President Donald Trump says he takes no responsibility for a spike in people using disinfectants improperly after he suggested ingesting disinfectant as a cure for coronavirus last week. White House reopening …

Coronavirus Outbreak: How will we know when it’s time to reopen our cities, our nations, the world?
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus Outbreak: How will we know when it’s time to reopen our cities, our nations, the world?

Firstpost  

Until we get a vaccine or effective treatments, we should focus on testing, having hospital beds, and controlling the outbreak. We’ll also have to do some surveillance of people without symptoms, especially in higher-risk settings.” A national estimate means less in deciding whether a state can reopen than its local capabilities. Every time an individual tests positive, the public health …

White House shifts from raising alarms to reopening country
4 years, 8 months ago

White House shifts from raising alarms to reopening country

India TV News  

For weeks, the Trump administration played up the dangers of the coronavirus as it sought to persuade Americans to disrupt their lives and stay home. “And that confidence is going to require testing and confidence that your workplace is a healthy place, but also confidence in the economy.” At the White House, officials believe they’ve entered a new chapter of …

April 23, 2020 coronavirus news
4 years, 8 months ago

April 23, 2020 coronavirus news

CNN  

President Trump speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus at the White House on April 22. “I’d love everything open,” Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, appearing to offer up the city as a “control group” without social distancing measures to compare against other places with strict guidelines. “We’re just not making progress on testing”: …

Trump: I ‘disagreed strongly’ with Georgia’s reopening plan
4 years, 8 months ago

Trump: I ‘disagreed strongly’ with Georgia’s reopening plan

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he “disagreed strongly” with the decision by Georgia’s Republican governor to reopen salons, gyms and other nonessential businesses that had been shuttered to contain the coronavirus, saying, “It’s just too soon.” During the daily White House briefing, the president indicated that while he is in favor of states reopening their economies, Gov. …

Coronavirus | President Donald Trump gives Governors options on how to reopen the economy
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus | President Donald Trump gives Governors options on how to reopen the economy

The Hindu  

President Donald Trump has given governors a road map for recovering from the economic pain of the coronavirus pandemic, laying out “a phased and deliberate approach” to restoring normal activity in places that have strong testing and are seeing a decrease in COVID-19 cases. Also | Interactive graphic tracking global spread of coronavirus - WHO “We’re starting our life again,” …

Powerful GOP allies propel Trump effort to reopen economy
4 years, 8 months ago

Powerful GOP allies propel Trump effort to reopen economy

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Leading Republicans say the coronavirus shutdown cannot go on. “It’s very much time to start having that conversation and start figuring that out,” said Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., who has shared his views with Trump. “It’s about stopping spending that will bankrupt the country and getting the $20 trillion engine that is the American economy started again as …

Governors will ease coronavirus restrictions under White House plan
4 years, 8 months ago

Governors will ease coronavirus restrictions under White House plan

LA Times  

Claiming that the worst of the coronavirus outbreak has passed, President Trump outlined a broad road map Thursday for each state to begin phasing out restrictions that have forced tens of millions of Americans to stay home for weeks, devastating the nation’s economy. “Some states will be able to open up sooner than others.” The guidance was released on a …

Trump Promises New Guidelines For Reopening The Country
4 years, 8 months ago

Trump Promises New Guidelines For Reopening The Country

NPR  

Trump Promises New Guidelines For Reopening The Country Enlarge this image toggle caption Charlie Riedel/AP Charlie Riedel/AP Worldwide total confirmed cases: 2,063,161 Total deaths: 136,938 U.S. total confirmed cases: 638,111 Confirmed U.S. deaths: 30,844 SOURCE: Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, as of 11:35 p.m. Without citing evidence, he claimed at the White House coronavirus task force briefing Wednesday that the …

Trump orders halt to WHO funding; says it failed to do enough to contain COVID-19
4 years, 8 months ago

Trump orders halt to WHO funding; says it failed to do enough to contain COVID-19

India TV News  

US President Donald Trump has announced cutting off US payments to the World Health Organization during the coronavirus pandemic, accusing the organization of failing to do enough to stop the virus from spreading when it first surfaced in China. But when asked about possible US funding cuts during a regular UN briefing earlier Tuesday, WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris responded, “Regardless …

CDC, FEMA have drafted a national plan to reopen US, report says
4 years, 8 months ago

CDC, FEMA have drafted a national plan to reopen US, report says

CNN  

CNN — There is a draft of a back-to-work strategy for the nation, created by a team led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, according to The Washington Post. One is readying the country through a “communication campaign and community readiness assessment until May 1,” according to the Post. Some restrictions will …

Fauci again cautions against Trump’s call to quickly reopen US, says ‘we’re not there yet’
4 years, 8 months ago

Fauci again cautions against Trump’s call to quickly reopen US, says ‘we’re not there yet’

CNN  

Washington CNN — Dr. Anthony Fauci is again publicly cautioning against President Donald Trump’s aggressive calls to reopen the US, telling The Associated Press the country is not yet ready to ease up on restrictions aiming to slow the spread of coronavirus because it doesn’t have the capacity to test and trace new cases. “We have to have something in …

Editorial: No, Mr. Trump, you don’t get to decide when the economy restarts
4 years, 8 months ago

Editorial: No, Mr. Trump, you don’t get to decide when the economy restarts

LA Times  

Columnist Holman Jenkins offered an analogy in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend that captures the conundrum created by the U.S. response to COVID-19. That’s why it’s so disturbing to hear President Trump assert, as he did again Monday, that he has the power to “open up the states,” presumably by lifting the restrictions on movement and commerce. “When …

Virus may dash Trump’s plan for a ‘big bang’ economic opening
4 years, 8 months ago

Virus may dash Trump’s plan for a ‘big bang’ economic opening

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump almost certainly won’t get his “big bang” reopening of the frozen economy. Fauci appeared to incur Trump’s ire on “State of the Union” Sunday morning when he admitted that there had been “a lot of pushback” to calls inside the administration for earlier social distancing. Hours later, Trump retweeted a user who said it was …

Trump To Announce Advisory Council On Reopening The Country, Shuttered By Coronavirus
4 years, 9 months ago

Trump To Announce Advisory Council On Reopening The Country, Shuttered By Coronavirus

NPR  

Trump To Announce Advisory Council On Reopening The Country, Shuttered By Coronavirus Enlarge this image toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP Evan Vucci/AP Updated at 4:36 p.m. Trump said on Friday that's the assignment he'll give to the new council he plans to appoint, which he said would include "great business, great doctors — we're going to have have a great group …

Trump blasts world health group, defends early virus steps
4 years, 9 months ago

Trump blasts world health group, defends early virus steps

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to freeze U.S. funding to the World Health Organization, saying the international group had “missed the call” on the coronavirus pandemic. Trump said the international group had “called it wrong” on the virus and that the organization was “very China-centric” in its approach, suggesting that the WHO had gone along with Beijing’s …

US election 2020: Can Donald Trump wait out the coronavirus?
4 years, 9 months ago

US election 2020: Can Donald Trump wait out the coronavirus?

CNN  

CNN — With just 212 days until the November election, 2020 is in full swing – even in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. The Biden VP search: Biden’s presidential campaign has been effectively ground to a halt by the coronavirus as the former vice president has been forced to stay home and do virtual fundraisers and rallies. “I am …

AP FACT CHECK: Trump gets a reality check on coronavirus
4 years, 9 months ago

AP FACT CHECK: Trump gets a reality check on coronavirus

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — For weeks, President Donald Trump carved out a trail of groundless assurances about the coronavirus pandemic as health officials, governors and local officials sounded alarm about what was coming — and already here. ___ TRUMP: “I mean, we have never closed the country before, and we have had some pretty bad flus, and we have had some pretty …

Pence says coronavirus task force will make recommendation about reopening economy next week
4 years, 9 months ago

Pence says coronavirus task force will make recommendation about reopening economy next week

Daily Mail  

Vice President Mike Pence said on Saturday that he would deliver a recommendation to the president on whether to re-open the US economy in the coming week despite Sen Lindsey Graham telling him not to lift the lockdown too early. Pence, who heads the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus outbreak, said the task force would base its decision on …

Federal Reserve Chair Contradicts Trump: Curbing Coronavirus Is 'First Order Of Business'
4 years, 9 months ago

Federal Reserve Chair Contradicts Trump: Curbing Coronavirus Is 'First Order Of Business'

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The chairman of the Federal Reserve on Thursday contradicted President Donald Trump’s push to reopen the economy as soon as possible, advising that curbing the spread of the coronavirus is “the first order of business” and recommending the advice of public health experts. “I think the first order of business will be to get the spread of …

Trump’s hope for an Easter reopening clashes with coronavirus reality
4 years, 9 months ago

Trump’s hope for an Easter reopening clashes with coronavirus reality

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump’s predictions that victory is close in the coronavirus crisis are becoming increasingly impossible to square with the harrowing escalation of America’s battle against the pandemic. A beautiful timeline,” the President said Tuesday, making clear that his target date to open the nation by April 12 – less than three weeks away – was driven by …

‘Imaginary clock': Governors reject Trump’s virus timeline
4 years, 9 months ago

‘Imaginary clock': Governors reject Trump’s virus timeline

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — Governors across the nation on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump’s new accelerated timeline for reopening the U.S. economy, as they continued to impose more restrictions on travel and public life in an attempt to curb the spread of the coronavirus. He accused the White House of running on a schedule made of some “imaginary clock.” The pushback …

Coronavirus Outbreak: Donald Trump against doctors' advice on complete shutdown, says such move will affect country's economy
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus Outbreak: Donald Trump against doctors' advice on complete shutdown, says such move will affect country's economy

Firstpost  

Coronavirus has so far claimed 550 lives and infected 43,700 people in the US, New York is the worst affected state with 157 deaths Washington: US President Donald Trump has indicated that he is unlikely to follow the suggestion of his medical advisors on a complete shutdown to tackle the coronavirus outbreak as he said such a move would have …

Trump, despite virus warnings, wants US back at work by April 12
4 years, 9 months ago

Trump, despite virus warnings, wants US back at work by April 12

Al Jazeera  

Trump’s desire to be back to normal soon contradicts advice from health experts, who say more action is needed. Public health authorities, state governors, and even some members of his own administration are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s professed desire to roll back measures intended to keep the coronavirus pandemic in check and reopen the country for business. — …

Trump says he intends to reopen country in weeks, not months
4 years, 9 months ago

Trump says he intends to reopen country in weeks, not months

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — As cases of coronavirus rise, President Donald Trump said that he wants to reopen the country for business in weeks, not months, and claimed, without evidence, that continued closures could result in more deaths than the pandemic itself. “I’m not looking at months, I can tell you right now,” Trump said Monday, when asked about easing federal recommendations …

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