Kansas demonstrated unintentionally that mask use “flattens the curve” by comparing counties that had mask mandates with those that didn’t. x US records more than 2,000 #coronavirus deaths in 24 hours, the highest number of daily fatalities in 3 months: Johns Hopkins University #COVID19 trackerhttps://t.co/5v8lF3itDm— Julie Laumann (@Otpor17) August 7, 2020 x It is August…
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AK-Sen: Dr. Al Gross (I) Puts Pressure On Dan Sullivan (R) To Protect Dr. Fauci From Trump's Attacks
Received this e-mail today from Dr. Al Gross (I. AK) campaign: x Discredit the messenger to obscure your historic failures: NOT good public health policy.https://t.co/tA0Vc0MWUf— Dr. Al Gross (@DrAlGrossAK) July 12, 2020 As a doctor, I've seen this before. I often have to tell patients news they don't want to hear — and sometimes, a…
Is the Trump administration preparing to disappear grim coronavirus stats?
Turns out George Orwell lacked imagination. Donald Trump has already decried our robust (er, 23rd-ranked by number of tests per capita, but who’s counting?) testing regime because it makes him look bad. He’s said that if we didn’t test we’d have very few cases. Which sort of makes sense if you’re a blithering nitwit with…
White House rejects CDC guidelines on reopening activity
CNN announced that the WH shelved guidelines to keep the public safe — rejecting a 17 page document that advises groups on how best to engage public activity. x Trump Squelches CDC Guide to Reopen Country https://t.co/vWhU4NKAjl— Courthouse News (@CourthouseNews) May 7, 2020 A set of detailed documents created by the nation’s top disease investigators to…
MS-Sen: Mike Espy (D) Pushes Congress To Protect Agriculture Workers During COVID-19 Pandemic
Received this e-mail today from Mike Espy’s (D. MS) U.S. Senate campaign: Across the country, and especially in my state of Mississippi, agricultural workers are the backbone of our economy. But unfortunately, they’re not always treated that way, especially now during this pandemic. Last week, President Trump passed an executive order declaring meat processing plants…
CDC Updates Its List of Covid-19 Symptoms [Update: Seems the Guidelines Were Buried – Maybe]
A new story on top of WaPo has an updated list of the most common coronavirus (Covid-19) symptoms: CDC confirms six coronavirus symptoms showing up in patients over and over Actually, the CDC website includes symptoms that are already known that WaPo for some reason left out: People with COVID-19 have had a wide range…
CDC Director Contradicts Trump to His Face
Yesterday, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), warned in a Washington Post interview that we need to prepare for a second coronavirus wave this winter: CDC director warns second wave of coronavirus is likely to be even more devastating. This was out of step with Trump’s Magical Mystery…
MA-Sen: Sen. Ed Markey (D) Refuses To Let Trump Fire Dr. Fauci
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Ed Markey’s (D. MA) re-election campaign: Sen. Ed Markey (D. MA) Last night, Donald Trump amplified a call from the far-right to fire Dr. Anthony Fauci. This is unacceptable. The president is trying to oust one of the foremost experts we need to survive this pandemic for fear…
Two black men kicked out of Illinois Walmart, presumably for wearing protective masks
Everyone! Wear masks! The CDC says you should! To protect yourself and others from the deadly coronavirus! Just do it! (Unless you’re black, of course.) x Wood River, Illinois. Two black men were kicked out of Walmart, escorted out by a cop who had his hand on the gun…FOR WEARING MASKS TO PROTECT THEMSELVES Are…
IA-Sen: Theresa Greenfield (D) Pushes The Call For Iowa To Issue A Statewide Stay-At-Home Order
This is the wrong type of leadership: Donald Trump’s characteristic (and characteristically unreflective) 180-degree turn last weekend on the need for much more rigorous quarantining to stop the coronavirus pandemic stimulated a number of Republican governors to get off the dime and issue the statewide shelter-in-place or stay-at-home orders that critics and many local government…
In three seconds, Trump undermined CDC's COVID-19 health recommendation
Even if Donald Trump had done everything else perfectly, his loosey-goosey attitude toward government messaging on coronavirus mitigation would be one of the biggest scandals in the history of the country. But it turns out he’s actually done virtually nothing well during the crisis. An Ebola-infected rhesus monkey with a pair of semaphore flags dipped in…
Fox News disinformation whining about CDC means what? – more preemptive scapegoating for IMPOTUS*
Fox News’s Lou Dobbs may be attacking the CDC because it’s doing CYA with its recent COVID-19 plan being honest about the 18 month estimate of time for the pandemic to run its course. Trump needs someone to take the blame for his months-long dithering that is keeping the potential death toll high. It may also be that…
H1N1 was the last “American” epidemic, will COVID-19 see the same US numbers
Trump tried to brand COVID-19 as a “Chinese virus” to distract from his incompetence. TRUMP REFUSED 1.4 MILLION TEST KITS AT THE END OF FEBRUARY BECAUSE… REASONS. x Anyone who didn't vote to impeach Trump owns this – and every death that comes because of it. https://t.co/mpO8R82wMt — Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 17, 2020 x The…
CA-45: PCCC Keeps Up The Momentum For Katie Porter (D) To Keep Kicking Trump's Ass
Received this e-mail from the Progressives Change Campaign Committee in support of Rep. Katie Porter’s (D. CA-45) re-election campaigns: You've got to see this! Katie Porter, who is one of our favorite members of Congress (and national co-chair of Elizabeth Warren's campaign) forced the CDC to agree to free coronavirus testing for the uninsured. Watch it happen…
#TheTrumpPresidencyIsOver How many US COVID-19 deaths were caused by Trump's nativist incompetence
An article in The Atlantic confirms that today’s Trump presser revealed that Trump’s irresponsibility in privatizing the COVID-19 response came from refusing to use many non-US options available earlier. Favoring US firms to produce tests has been part of the “grave costly errors”. Even as there’s an election that needs major GOTV effort to defeat him,…
Jared Kushner is crowdsourcing U.S. coronavirus response on Facebook with help of brother's in-law
And you were worried Donald Trump didn’t have a handle on this. Jared Kushner, having already ended the opioid epidemic and brokered Middle East peace, is now working on the COVID-19 crisis. Saying he’s in over his head would be an understatement. But he’s on it, folks! Don’t worry. Because Facebook isn’t only good for Candy…
“You might as well ask a horse to fix a merry-go-round” Trump wakes up and scapegoats the CDC
More Trump bafflegab this morning as Individual-1 spins another false narrative of disinformation to distract from his incompetence. Trump is never to blame, don't cha know! x …. Their response to H1N1 Swine Flu was a full scale disaster, with thousands dying, and nothing meaningful done to fix the testing problem, until now. The changes…
As coronavirus rages, White House refuses to back down on proposed cuts to CDC
As the federal government’s own health officials warn that the novel coronavirus outbreak is bound to get worse, the Trump administration is refusing to amend its 2021 budget request, which seeks to slash Health and Human Services’ funding by $9.5 billion. The proposed cuts include a 15 percent ($1.2 billion) reduction in the CDC’s budget and a $35 million cut…
Trump's not even watching his own COVID-19 briefing as he's trying to prop up oil industry profit
Daily WH COVID-19 briefing has questions from the press that are mainly about the incompetence issues. Payroll tax holiday stunt proposed “take two taxcuts…etc.” from Larry Kudlow (remember that middle-class taxcut from November 2018). which will cost the economy a trillion dollars. Kudlow demurs and says he needs to “stay in his lane”. VP Pence…
Trump joins past U.S. presidents who 'like the numbers being where they are'
President Trump ignited a firestorm of criticism following his comments Friday at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). After Trump explained, “I’d rather have the people stay” on the 3,500 person cruise ship anchored near San Francisco with 21 coronavirus cases “because I like the numbers being where they are,” Philip Bump of the Washington…
