Like many of President Donald Trump’s allies, Evangelical leader and president of Liberty University Jerry Falwell Jr. tried to downplay the COVID-19 outbreak that has been rapidly spreading across the country.
So Many Questions About COVID-19 Testing
I’ve been grappling all week with how to cover the COVID-19 testing debacle in a smart way. It has become the focal point of much of the public concern, and I suspect it’s what elected officials are hearing the most about because everyone wants to be tested. But people clamoring for tests and politicians responding to the clamor doesn’t necessarily align with what makes the most sense from a public health standpoint.
Barr, Conway, Ivanka Trump Interacted With Australian Official Who Has Coronavirus
Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton who had recently met with top Trump administration officials announced on Friday that he had admitted himself to the hospital for COVID-19 that day.
About That ‘Tremendous Testing Set Up’
You saw Trump’s remarks yesterday where he falsely claimed that the United States has a “tremendous testing set up” for those entering the country. In contrast, we have had a number of accounts from readers arriving back in the United States in recent days who have been concerned that not only are they not being tested, but they’re not even being screened for symptoms or possible exposure on their trips.
Here’s an example from TPM Reader AG who emailed overnight with about her arrival in the United States from Italy earlier this week.
Trump Tries To Claim He’s Handling Coronavirus Better Than Obama Did With Swine Flu
Amid criticism over his administration’s failure to properly distribute tests for COVID-19, President Donald Trump is bashing former President Barack Obama and 2020 candidate former Vice President Joe Biden’s handling of the H1N1 outbreak of 2009 and 2010.
Trump’s Failing Coronavirus Response is Standard Issue Republicanism in 2020
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“He’s got a certain talent for this,” President Donald Trump said of Vice President Mike Pence when entrusting him with the response to the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis. Pence’s perpetual grimace is the new face of the U.S. response to the coronavirus, after a chaotic week when the White House health team’s internecine squabbles and revolving-door corruption got a bit too public for Trump’s comfort. GOP operatives are likely relieved that their “adult in the room” has taken over. After all, Pence may be a fundamentalist zealot, but he is at least an actual “normal” policy-maker.
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Progression of New Testing By Day
Testing in the United States remains drastically behind testing in other countries, even before figuring in the scale of US population with dwarfs all but a few countries in the world. But it is ramping up. Here is a quick and dirty chart I just compiled with the data from the COVID-19 Tracking Project. This is the cumulative number of the number of people tested in the United States as updated each day.
(Click the chart to get a zoomed in version of the image for easier reading.)
Fauci Won’t Say Whether Trump Should Be Tested For Coronavirus
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director and coronavirus task force member Anthony Fauci refused to comment on whether President Trump should be tested for coronavirus while speaking to reporters on the White House driveway Thursday afternoon. Continue reading “Fauci Won’t Say Whether Trump Should Be Tested For Coronavirus”
NY AG Orders Alex Jones To Stop Selling Unapproved ‘Fake Coronavirus Treatments’
The New York Attorney General Leticia James on Thursday ordered Alex Jones to cease and desist selling and marketing products as treatments for the coronavirus.
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Medical Community Demands Trump Declare COVID-19 A National Emergency
In an unprecedented move, three of the country’s largest medical organizations demanded on Thursday that President Trump declare the coronavirus outbreak a national emergency.
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