Trump's coronavirus response

NewRoxFan · May 17, 2020

The trumps and fox news still want you to believe its all a hoax to prevent trump from being reelected in November....

NewRoxFan · May 17, 2020

Fantastic Financial Times op-ed... long but well worth the read.

An admin official says advising Trump is like "bringing fruits to the volcano" – Trump being the lava source. "You're trying to appease a great force that’s impervious to reason," says the official.

Inside Trump’s coronavirus meltdown | Free to read
What went wrong in the president’s first real crisis — and what does it mean for the US?

When the history is written of how America handled the global era’s first real pandemic, March 6 will leap out of the timeline. That was the day Donald Trump visited the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. His foray to the world’s best disease research body was meant to showcase that America had everything under control. It came midway between the time he was still denying the coronavirus posed a threat and the moment he said he had always known it could ravage America. Shortly before the CDC visit, Trump said “within a couple of days, [infections are] going to be down to close to zero”. The US then had 15 cases. “One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.” A few days afterwards, he claimed: “I’ve felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.” That afternoon at the CDC provides an X-ray into Trump’s mind at the halfway point between denial and acceptance.We now know that Covid-19 had already passed the breakout point in the US. The contagion had been spreading for weeks in New York, Washington state and other clusters. The curve was pointing sharply upwards. Trump’s goal in Atlanta was to assert the opposite.
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Wearing his “Keep America Great” baseball cap, the US president was flanked by Robert Redfield, head of the CDC, Alex Azar, the US secretary of health and human services, and Brian Kemp, governor of Georgia. In his 47-minute interaction with the press, Trump rattled through his greatest hits. He dismissed CNN as fake news, boasted about his high Fox News viewership, cited the US stock market’s recent highs, called Washington state’s Democratic governor a “snake” and admitted he hadn’t known that large numbers of people could die from ordinary flu. He also misunderstood a question on whether he should cancel campaign rallies for public health reasons. “I haven’t had any problems filling [the stadiums],” Trump said. What caught the media’s attention were two comments he made about the disease. There would be four million testing kits available within a week. “The tests are beautiful,” he said. “Anybody that needs a test gets a test.”
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Ten weeks later, that is still not close to being true. Fewer than 3 per cent of Americans had been tested by mid-May. Trump also boasted about his grasp of science. He cited a “super genius” uncle, John Trump, who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and implied he inherited his intellect. “I really get it,” he said. “Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability.” Historians might linger on that observation too. What the headlines missed was a boast that posterity will take more seriously than Trump’s self-estimated IQ, or the exaggerated test numbers (the true number of CDC kits by March was 75,000). Trump proclaimed that America was leading the world. South Korea had its first infection on January 20, the same day as America’s first case, and was, he said, calling America for help. “They have a lot of people that are infected; we don’t.” “All I say is, ‘Be calm,’” said the president. “Everyone is relying on us. The world is relying on us.” In hindsight, Trump’s claim to global leadership leaps out. History will mark Covid-19 as the first time that ceased to be true. US airlifts have been missing in action. America cannot even supply itself.
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Yet without exception, everyone I interviewed, including the most ardent Trump loyalists, made a similar point to Conway. Trump is deaf to advice, said one. He is his own worst enemy, said another. He only listens to family, said a third. He is mentally imbalanced, said a fourth. America, in other words, should brace itself for a turbulent six months ahead – with no assurance of a safe landing.
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https://www.ft.com/content/97dc7de6-940b-11ea-abcd-371e24b679ed

subtomic · May 17, 2020

A sobering read on the Trump Administration’s complete abdication of their responsibility to protect us from pandemics

https://www.politicalorphans.com/how-a-competent-administration-might-have-contained-c19/

NewRoxFan · May 17, 2020

Guess trump will need to hawk a different drug he has invested in...

Yet another study shows hydroxychloroquine doesn't work against Covid-19

A new study -- the largest of its kind -- shows that hydroxychloroquine, the drug touted by President Trump, does not work against Covid-19 and could cause heart problems. The study was published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It follows a study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine that also showed the drug doesn't fight the virus. Even before these reports were published, the US Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health issued warnings about using the drugs for coronavirus patients.
"The nail has virtually been put in the coffin of hydroxychloroquine," said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert and longtime adviser to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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In the most recent study, researchers at the University at Albany looked at 1,438 patients with coronavirus who were admitted to 25 New York City area hospitals. After statistical adjustments, the death rate for patients taking hydroxychloroquine was similar to those who did not take the drug. The death rate for those taking hydroxychloroquine plus the antibiotic azithromycin, was also similar.
However, the patients who took the drug combination were more than twice as likely to suffer cardiac arrest during the course of the study. Heart issues are a known side effect of hydroxychloroquine.
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"The big takeaway for me from this study is that it's very consistent with the FDA and NIH guidelines that came out in April," said one of the study's senior authors, David Holtgrave, dean of the School of Public Health at the University at Albany. "When deciding on public health interventions and treatments for Covid-19 or any other disease, it's really important to follow the data and follow the science and make sure decisions are being made on the highest quality data possible."
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/11/health/hydroxychloroquine-doesnt-work-coronavirus/index.html

NewRoxFan · May 17, 2020

So Bright says...

So butthurt-in-chief attacks Bright...

And attempts to get the 60 Minutes reporter fired...

NewRoxFan · May 17, 2020

NewRoxFan · May 17, 2020

trump's never accepts responsibility... latest scapegoats are scientists... And people with pre-existing conditions.

vlaurelio · May 18, 2020

NewRoxFan said: ↑

Guess trump will need to hawk a different drug he has invested in...

Yet another study shows hydroxychloroquine doesn't work against Covid-19

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/11/health/hydroxychloroquine-doesnt-work-coronavirus/index.html
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what u say DR and DA @dachuda86 ???

deb4rockets · May 18, 2020

NewRoxFan · May 18, 2020

trump jonesing for his campaign rallies...

No Worries · May 18, 2020

deb4rockets · May 18, 2020

Ubiquitin · May 18, 2020

NewRoxFan said: ↑

trump jonesing for his campaign rallies...

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**** Trump and **** his supporters. Open it up for him.

SamFisher · May 18, 2020

Mr.Scarface · May 18, 2020

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Devastating Ad.

edwardc · May 18, 2020

You know what I'm just going to say it WORST POTUS EVER IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

NewRoxFan · May 18, 2020

trump's personal doctor better confirm this, else its a dangerous lie...

NewRoxFan · May 18, 2020

Again, his doctor has to corroborate this story. trump is a known liar, and this would be a dangerous lie...

NewRoxFan · May 18, 2020

Maybe the intense light will protect him from Coronavirus?

jiggyfly · May 18, 2020

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I'm telling you, of all the unexplained weirdness about Trump, the Jared thing is the oddest of all? I odn't really have the mental energy now to worry about it but here's the facts

1. Trump has a weird lascivious interest in his own daughter
2. Trump has a love-hate relationship with his idiot sons, much like his own abusive father
3. Trump somehow thinks his idiot son-in-law, another rich fail-upward real-estate inherinting kid with parents buying him admission into to society, is a genius, even though he is profoundly not and more or less univerally reviled by not only Trump's enemies but by his base and pretty much...everybody.

Is it that Trump sees/wishes he was Jared becuase he's skinny and with his daughter? You would think jealousy/envy would lead him to hate on him more, but he has unshakeable faith in Jared, despite Jared failing at everything and being an unending font of terrible advice ("Fire comey" etc) and who literally cannot go in front of the press without creating an embarrassing scandal.
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Yeah I have thought the same thing about Jared and you left out another thing that should turn Trump off about him, he does not present well on camera and looks weak that is usually a no no when representing Trump.

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