Trump disregards science as coronavirus response is overtaken by chaos
4 years, 8 months ago

Trump disregards science as coronavirus response is overtaken by chaos

CNN  

CNN — Alarming new signs are emerging that the Trump administration is shunting science aside in the battle against coronavirus. In Wednesday’s most stunning development, a top administration official working on a vaccine claimed he was ousted after resisting efforts to push unproven drugs promoted by President Donald Trump and his conservative media cheerleaders as “game changer” treatments. Science, in service to the health and safety of the American people, must always trump politics.” Bizarre scene as Redfield walks back his fall warning Video Ad Feedback CDC director says possible second wave could be worse 02:52 - Source: CNN In another episode in which Trump appeared to challenge established fact, the President claimed Redfield had been “totally misquoted” by the media. Trump then asked Dr. Deborah Birx, a senior member of the coronavirus task force “Dr., wouldn’t you say there’s a good chance that Covid will not come back?” Birx replied: “We don’t know.” Trump insisted “we may have some embers, and we’re going to put them out – of corona.” He refused to explain to reporters why he believed the disease would not come back in the fall. “Just like the thousands of businesses currently operating throughout Georgia, I am confident that business owners who decide to reopen will adhere to Minimum Basic Operations, which prioritize the health and well-being of employees and customers.” Fauci’s emotional plea Video Ad Feedback Fauci: There will be enough tests to begin reopening US 03:56 - Source: CNN Wednesday’s briefing was notable for the reappearance of Fauci for the first time this week.

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Trump tested COVID-positive pre-debate, ex-aide says in book
3 years, 1 month ago

Trump tested COVID-positive pre-debate, ex-aide says in book

Associated Press  

Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19 three days before his first presidential debate in September 2020 with Joe Biden, according to a new book by Trump’s former chief of staff. In “The Chief’s Chief,” obtained by The Guardian before its Dec. 7 release, Mark Meadows writes that the then-president received a negative test shortly after the positive test and resumed …

News orgs prove Trump’s outlandish claim wrong as they continue spotlighting coronavirus
4 years, 1 month ago

News orgs prove Trump’s outlandish claim wrong as they continue spotlighting coronavirus

CNN  

CNN Business — A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Wednesday’s WaPo A1 features a map accompanied by a headline that warns, “Surge shows no sign of easing.” CNN’s homepage is featuring a story with a headline that reads, “Coronavirus hospitalizations in US reach an all-time high with more than 60,000.” And NYT’s homepage focuses …

Donald Trump fears coronavirus: Urgency US president showed in seeking treatment puts paid to lies about pandemic
4 years, 3 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 …

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s faulty claims on flu and coronavirus
4 years, 3 months ago

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s faulty claims on flu and coronavirus

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is back to making false comparisons between COVID-19 and the flu, contradicting science and even himself. Second, health officials widely agree that the coronavirus seems to be at least several times more lethal than seasonal flu. Trump’s tweet, which he sent even while grappling with his own COVID-19 infection, also flies in the face of …

Timeline: How Trump Has Downplayed The Coronavirus Pandemic
4 years, 3 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 …

Trump contradicts CDC director on vaccine, masks: 'He was confused'
4 years, 3 months ago

Trump contradicts CDC director on vaccine, masks: 'He was confused'

India Today  

President Donald Trump took exception on Wednesday to comments from the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who said a vaccine for the novel coronavirus could be broadly rolled out in mid-2021 and that masks might be even more effective. Robert Redfield, in testimony to a congressional committee, said that general availability of a vaccine could …

Trump rebukes CDC chief for his cautions on a coronavirus vaccine and masks
4 years, 3 months ago

Trump rebukes CDC chief for his cautions on a coronavirus vaccine and masks

LA Times  

President Trump contradicted one of his administration’s top scientists and announced Wednesday that widespread distribution of a coronavirus vaccine would begin as early as next month, further rattling the scientific and public health communities and stoking rival Joe Biden’s claim that Trump can’t be trusted to oversee development of a safe vaccine. For a vaccine to be “fully available to …

Apology, no firing: Official said US scientists hurt Trump
4 years, 3 months ago

Apology, no firing: Official said US scientists hurt Trump

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A Trump health appointee who is accused of trying to muzzle an important scientific publication in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic apologized Tuesday for a separate video in which he reportedly says scientists battling the virus are conspiring against President Donald Trump and warns of shooting in America if Trump loses the election. Then on Monday came …

Fact check: Trump falsely describes Biden’s comment on coronavirus shutdowns
4 years, 4 months ago

Fact check: Trump falsely describes Biden’s comment on coronavirus shutdowns

CNN  

Washington CNN — President Donald Trump keeps wrongly describing what his Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, said about the idea of imposing a “shutdown” to combat the coronavirus. In his Thursday speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination, Trump said, “Instead of following the science, Joe Biden wants to inflict a painful shutdown on the entire country.” He said …

Kellyanne Conway suggests Trump revive regular coronavirus briefings that caused him many headaches
4 years, 5 months ago

Kellyanne Conway suggests Trump revive regular coronavirus briefings that caused him many headaches

The Independent  

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Donald Trump uses July 4th address to put forward a dangerously misleading claim
4 years, 6 months ago

Donald Trump uses July 4th address to put forward a dangerously misleading claim

CNN  

CNN — As the nation marked a somber Fourth of July with many Americans confined to their homes amid an alarming rise in coronavirus cases, President Donald Trump used his stage on the White House’s South Lawn Saturday to put forward a mystifying – and dangerously misleading claim – that 99% of coronavirus cases in America are “totally harmless.” The …

Donald Trump has been suggesting the coronavirus is under control for 156 days now
4 years, 6 months ago

Donald Trump has been suggesting the coronavirus is under control for 156 days now

CNN  

CNN — On January 22, President Donald Trump did an interview with CNBC from Davos, Switzerland, where he was asked, for the first time, about the coronavirus in America. “It’s going away,” Trump said of the coronavirus during a speech to a conservative students group in Arizona on Wednesday. A week ago, in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, …

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 …

The science is clear: Trump bungled the pandemic response
4 years, 7 months ago

The science is clear: Trump bungled the pandemic response

Salon  

Let us pretend, for the sake of argument, that all of the other terrible things that Donald Trump has done during his presidency never happened: the persecution of immigrants and handouts to the wealthy, the destruction of our environment, his attacks on free speech rights and endless scandals. In other words, although the first confirmed COVID-19 case in the United …

Trump lashes out at scientists whose findings contradict him
4 years, 7 months ago

Trump lashes out at scientists whose findings contradict him

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — “A Trump enemy statement,” he said of one study. “It was a Trump enemy statement.” He offered similar pushback Thursday to a new study from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. “I think it’s just a political hit job, you want to know the truth.” Trump has long been skeptical of mainstream science — dismissing human-made climate …

Trump lashes out at the scientists whose findings contradict him
4 years, 7 months ago

Trump lashes out at the scientists whose findings contradict him

Al Jazeera  

The US president called one study “a Trump enemy statement”. “It was a Trump enemy statement.” A different analysis, published in the Lancet on Friday, that examines coronavirus patients worldwide who took hydroxycloroquine or the closely related drug chloroquine, found similar results: Those who received the drug had a significantly higher risk of death. “I think it’s just a political …

Bound by science, bent by politics: Inside the FDA’s reversals and walk-backs as it grapples with the coronavirus pandemic
4 years, 7 months ago

Bound by science, bent by politics: Inside the FDA’s reversals and walk-backs as it grapples with the coronavirus pandemic

CNN  

Washington CNN — Dr. Stephen Hahn repeatedly pledged in a CNN interview Tuesday that science and data would be his “north star” while leading the Food and Drug Administration through the coronavirus pandemic. “The political engagement here is magnitudes above anything I experienced over my public health career,” said Dr. Stephen Ostroff, the FDA’s former chief scientist who twice served …

Trump sidelines CDC in push to reopen the US economy
4 years, 7 months ago

Trump sidelines CDC in push to reopen the US economy

Al Jazeera  

As deaths mount, once proud US science agency is politicised in Trump administration response to coronavirus pandemic. Richard Jackson is a public health scientist who led the environmental health at the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for nine years He directed the CDC’s response to the September 11, 2001, attacks and proudly watched the agency win battles …

Fallout in Donald Trump’s Washington as he rejects facts and science
4 years, 8 months ago

Fallout in Donald Trump’s Washington as he rejects facts and science

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump has spent three years discrediting and sidelining institutional sources of facts, truth and trust that threaten his political and personal goals. The White House rejected new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance on safely reopening the country – with US deaths from the coronavirus surpassing 75,000 – and the handpicked officials leading the Justice …

Disinfectant riff is latest of many Trump science clashes
4 years, 8 months ago

Disinfectant riff is latest of many Trump science clashes

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — What President Donald Trump says and does often flies in the face of mainstream science. Asked what kind of grade he’d give Trump on science, M. Granger Morgan, a Carnegie Mellon University engineering and policy professor who has advised Democratic and Republican administrations, answered with a quick “F.” “When he starts to air things like that, it’s definitely …

US coronavirus updates: Latest on cases, deaths and reopening the country
4 years, 8 months ago

US coronavirus updates: Latest on cases, deaths and reopening the country

CNN  

President Donald Trump speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus at the White House on April 23. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images President Trump lied Friday when he said he was being “sarcastic” when he asked medical experts on Thursday to look into the possibility of injecting disinfectant as a treatment for the coronavirus. Here’s what Trump said Thursday while …

Trump’s improvised medicine show prompts frantic health warnings
4 years, 8 months ago

Trump’s improvised medicine show prompts frantic health warnings

LA Times  

A slew of federal and state agencies — and the makers of laundry bleach — issued an implicit rebuke to President Trump on Friday, warning the public that his off-the-cuff medical advice and off-the-wall musings in nightly White House briefings could endanger even more lives as the country’s coronavirus death toll passed 50,000. A day after Trump sparked a furor …

Timeline: What Trump Has Said And Done About The Coronavirus
4 years, 8 months ago

Timeline: What Trump Has Said And Done About The Coronavirus

NPR  

Timeline: What Trump Has Said And Done About The Coronavirus Enlarge this image Gage Skidmore/Flickr; Stephen Melkisethian/Flickr; Caroline Amenabar/NPR Gage Skidmore/Flickr; Stephen Melkisethian/Flickr; Caroline Amenabar/NPR Updated Sept. 10 Editor's Note: This timeline has been updated to include comments President Trump made in newly released interviews with journalist Bob Woodward. Trump has gone from downplaying the risk early on, to overselling …

Trump uses pandemic virus briefing to air laudatory video
4 years, 8 months ago

Trump uses pandemic virus briefing to air laudatory video

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday used the daily White House briefing to air a taxpayer-funded promotional video praising his own handling of the coronavirus outbreak and slamming his critics and the press. He sought to clarify his previous comments, saying that “hypothetical questions sometimes can get you into some difficulty” and that he did not intend to imply …

Trump fumes after CNN's Jim Acosta asks if his coronavirus briefings are just 'happy talk'
4 years, 8 months ago

Trump fumes after CNN's Jim Acosta asks if his coronavirus briefings are just 'happy talk'

Raw Story  

During Friday's coronavirus task force press briefing, President Donald Trump lost his patience with CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta when he questioned whether the hearings were whitewashing the challenges facing the government. "I hear from a lot of people who see these briefings as sort of 'happy talk' briefings," said Acosta. "We hear from doctors, we hear from …

Trump’s alarming coronavirus message to America portends tragic days ahead
4 years, 9 months ago

Trump’s alarming coronavirus message to America portends tragic days ahead

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump finally leveled with America about the desperate reality of the coronavirus pandemic, warning of cruel weeks to come in one of the most chilling White House moments in modern history. Even with blanket nationwide adoption of stringent mitigation efforts, between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans could face death in the coming weeks in a cascading nationwide …

Trump angrily defends his handling of coronavirus pandemic
4 years, 9 months ago

Trump angrily defends his handling of coronavirus pandemic

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Defending his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, an angry President Donald Trump on Friday lashed out at reporters and broke with his own health officials on the science of the outbreak. Trump said he was tapping the Defense Production Act to order American businesses to manufacture and send supplies, like testing kits, ventilators and masks, to hospitals preparing …

Coronavirus has finally spooked Donald Trump. Here's what changed his mind
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus has finally spooked Donald Trump. Here's what changed his mind

ABC  

Of all the dramatic changes to the world around us this week, one of the most jarring was the transformation of Donald Trump. He's put Asian Americans in danger of abuse or worse by continually describing COVID-19 as "the Chinese virus" in response to China's spurious claims that the US Army started the pandemic. Did an intervention by a Fox …

Washington Post: US intelligence warned Trump in January and February as he dismissed coronavirus threat
4 years, 9 months ago

Washington Post: US intelligence warned Trump in January and February as he dismissed coronavirus threat

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump ignored reports from US intelligence agencies starting in January that warned of the scale and intensity of the coronavirus outbreak in China, The Washington Post reported Friday. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar was unable to discuss the virus with Trump until January 18, two senior administration officials told the Post – at which …

Coronavirus: Five tweets that prove Trump didn't take the outbreak seriously
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus: Five tweets that prove Trump didn't take the outbreak seriously

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. The Fake News new narrative is disgraceful & …

Trump’s coronavirus conversion
4 years, 9 months ago

Trump’s coronavirus conversion

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Frida Ghitis, a former CNN producer and correspondent, is a world affairs columnist. CNN — “Beautiful day outside,” President Donald Trump gushed on Sunday from the White House podium. It had taken several weeks, much too long during an epidemic, but the efforts of public health experts, and a stubbornly pessimistic stock market, finally tore apart the President’s …

Trump Says He’s ‘Always’ Taken The Coronavirus Pandemic Seriously. He Hasn't.
4 years, 9 months ago

Trump Says He’s ‘Always’ Taken The Coronavirus Pandemic Seriously. He Hasn't.

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING For the second day in a row, President Donald Trump painted a strangely rosy picture of his response to the coronavirus pandemic. “I’ve always known this was a real ― this is a pandemic,” Trump said at a press conference Tuesday. I feel the tone is similar, but some people said it wasn’t.” In reality, Trump has …

Trump changes his tone, gets real on the coronavirus threat
4 years, 9 months ago

Trump changes his tone, gets real on the coronavirus threat

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — He called on the country to come together. Trump’s more somber tone came as he addressed the public at a White House briefing and made a direct appeal to all Americans to do their part to halt the pandemic’s spread. Gone were Trump’s “do as I say, not as I do” handshakes that had continued even after health …

The pandemic is a test Trump can’t pass with ideology alone
4 years, 9 months ago

The pandemic is a test Trump can’t pass with ideology alone

CNN  

CNN — The coronavirus’ relentless spread is exposing Donald Trump to a question no president wants to hear: Is he up to the job? But the federal government’s unsteady response to the outbreak threatens Trump with the same public verdict that ultimately undermined predecessors such as Jimmy Carter during the Iranian hostage crisis and George W. Bush after Hurricane Katrina: …

Fact check: Trump tries to erase the memory of him downplaying the coronavirus
4 years, 9 months ago

Fact check: Trump tries to erase the memory of him downplaying the coronavirus

CNN  

Washington CNN — The somber President Donald Trump of Monday’s press conference bore little resemblance to the Trump who had relentlessly played down the coronavirus over the previous two months. Prior to the World Health Organization’s official pandemic declaration on March 11, Trump had never told Americans that he viewed the situation as a potential pandemic. It’s going to be …

What drove Trump’s newfound somber tone on coronavirus
4 years, 9 months ago

What drove Trump’s newfound somber tone on coronavirus

CNN  

Washington CNN — President Donald Trump wasn’t planning to come before cameras Sunday, according to two people familiar with his plans. He’s commented to several people over the past week that Vice President Mike Pence, the leader of the coronavirus task force, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, have received “rave reviews” for their work and …

Trump grows more irate as his attempts to contain coronavirus fallout fail
4 years, 9 months ago

Trump grows more irate as his attempts to contain coronavirus fallout fail

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump has grown more and more irate as his attempts to contain the political fallout of coronavirus – much less the health crisis itself – continue to fall short, people close to him said. Some airline officials were apoplectic after Trump announced the drastic-sounding European travel ban, saying they had been briefed on a much less …

Do Not Listen To Trump On Coronavirus. Listen To Health Experts, Please.
4 years, 9 months ago

Do Not Listen To Trump On Coronavirus. Listen To Health Experts, Please.

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The coronavirus outbreak “is going to get worse,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading expert on infectious disease, told lawmakers on Wednesday ― a warning that stands in stark contrast to the messages coming from President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. “It’s really working out.” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy …

House Democrats Torch Trump Administration's Coronavirus Response
4 years, 9 months ago

House Democrats Torch Trump Administration's Coronavirus Response

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING House Democrats slammed President Donald Trump and his administration on Wednesday over the coronavirus outbreak, accusing the president of downplaying the threat and top officials of fumbling the response. Over and over again, we’ve heard blatant misstatements that consistently diminish this crisis and negatively affect our preparations and response.” The hearing began hours after The New York …

Trump dodges responsibility as coronavirus spreads and markets crash
4 years, 10 months ago

Trump dodges responsibility as coronavirus spreads and markets crash

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump is dodging responsibility as the coronavirus outbreak morphs into a global pandemic swiftly spreading across America and stock markets tank. On CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, US Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams was unable to say exactly how many people had so far been tested for coronavirus in the United States. “Unfortunately, that …

On coronavirus, Trump is a walking, talking, tweeting disaster
4 years, 10 months ago

On coronavirus, Trump is a walking, talking, tweeting disaster

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Samantha Vinograd is a CNN national security analyst. As we look toward another week of headlines about the virus and its impact, we should expect Donald Trump to continue checking off the “do not do” list when it comes to disaster response, including by spreading misinformation with statements minimizing the extent of the problem and contradicting health officials …

Trump's Gut Collides With Science On Coronavirus Messaging
4 years, 10 months ago

Trump's Gut Collides With Science On Coronavirus Messaging

NPR  

Trump's Gut Collides With Science On Coronavirus Messaging Enlarge this image toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Updated at 9:30 p.m. The challenge posed by Trump's breezy style was on full display Wednesday night in an interview in which he disputed the World Health Organization's recent coronavirus death rate estimate of 3.4%. Enlarge this …

Trump’s misleading coronavirus statements could lead to pandemic killing millions, historian says
4 years, 10 months ago

Trump’s misleading coronavirus statements could lead to pandemic killing millions, historian says

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. Writing in the Washington Post, Mr Barry said: …

Donald Trump says additional American coronavirus cases ‘likely’ as US confirms first death
4 years, 10 months ago

Donald Trump says additional American coronavirus cases ‘likely’ as US confirms first death

CNN  

Washington CNN — The Trump administration on Saturday announced new travel restrictions after confirmation of the first coronavirus death in the US, with President Donald Trump signaling a more robust response as US cases rise. Trump said additional cases in America were “likely” but cautioned the public not to “panic.” “Additional cases in the US are likely,” Trump said, “but …

Trump takes a victory lap early on in the coronavirus fight
4 years, 10 months ago

Trump takes a victory lap early on in the coronavirus fight

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump wants America to know he’s doing a great job in keeping out the novel coronavirus, in a victory lap that could look premature if his own experts are correct in their more somber forecasts. “The risk to the American people remains very low,” Trump said, as he unveiled his big announcement: Vice President Mike Pence …

Trump says coronavirus will ‘disappear’ eventually
4 years, 10 months ago

Trump says coronavirus will ‘disappear’ eventually

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump expressed optimism Thursday that the novel coronavirus would eventually be contained and eliminated in the United States, even as he acknowledged it could get worse first. One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear,” Trump told attendees at an African American History Month reception in the White House Cabinet Room. Speaking about the 15 …

President Trump seems to know very little about the coronavirus
4 years, 10 months ago

President Trump seems to know very little about the coronavirus

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump has lots and lots of thoughts about the novel coronavirus that has crippled China and has been spreading worldwide. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.” There’s no available evidence that a vaccine is “close,” in fact, most infectious disease experts say developing a vaccine for the virus is roughly a year away. Sen. …

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