“A coordinated response from the CDC, the FDA, and the White House would have been important in containing the virus in the early stages,” Thomas Tsai, a health policy researcher at the Harvard School of Public Health, told Business Insider. “And we missed that opportunity.”
THREAD — A timeline of Trump’s coronavirus statements:
Jan. 22: “It’s going to be just fine. We have it totally under control.”
Jan. 24: “It will all work out well.”
Jan. 30: “We think we have it very well under control.”
Intelligence reports warned about a pandemic in January. Trump reportedly ignored them.
As Trump reportedly received intelligence reports about the seriousness of the coronavirus threat, he continued to downplay its severity in public. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/21/21189179/coronavirus-trump-intelligence-reports-warned-pandemic
Sam bee covid warning Premiered Jan 29, 2020
Before virus outbreak, a cascade of warnings went unheeded — The New York Times
The lost six weeks when US failed to contain virus
Trump Said He Could Kill Someone On 5th Ave. But How About 50,000 Across America? — HuffPost
Fox and Limbaugh lies and downplay virus
George W. Bush in 2005: ‘If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare’
Throngs of travelers arriving back in the US are jam-packed in airports after Trump’s coronavirus travel ban https://flip.it/1n9p1D
Before virus outbreak, a cascade of warnings went unheeded — The New York Times
Pressure mounts for Trump to actually use Defense Production Act — CNN Politics
Obama Warned The U.S. To Prepare For A Pandemic Back In 2014 | NowThis
Trump is breaking every rule in the CDC’s 450-page playbook for health crisis — The Washington Post
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/white-house-coronavirus-task-force-briefing
Trump’s WHO cuts ignite furious blowback — The Hill
Hey Donald Trump, who’s blameless enough to blame WHO on coronavirus response? Not you. — USA TODAY
America’s told-you-so moment: How we botched the reopening https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/01/coronavirus-reopening-347465?cid=apn
Trump Is Donating Ventilators to Countries That Don’t Need or Can’t Use Them. Nearly 8,000 ventilators are destined for foreign countries as part of Trump’s plan to make the U.S. “king of ventilators.” But public health experts worry the machines are crowding out more urgently needed aid. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-is-donating-ventilators-to-countries-that-dont-need-or-cant-use-them
President Trump is not the only Republican who has no idea how to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. Equally incompetent and confused is the Republican Senate, which has had months to consider the Heroes Act but still is paralyzed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/22/trumps-not-only-incompetent-republican/
Hospital data on coronavirus patients will no longer be controlled by the CDC https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/14/politics/trump-administration-coronavirus-hospital-data-cdc/index.html
‘None of us lie’: Coronavirus testing czar rejects Trump’s attacks on health officials The president has repeatedly questioned his own administration’s experts as the pandemic threatens his reelection effort. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/14/coronavirus-testing-czar-trump-health-officials-360684?cid=apn
Trump Tells Employers Not To Worry About Recording COVID-19 Cases — HuffPost
Trumps Chernobyl Brian Klaas on Twitter
The U.S. was beset by denial and dysfunction as the coronavirus raged
America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral As the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual errors that have plagued it since spring. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/pandemic-intuition-nightmare-spiral-winter/616204/
Furor erupts over Trump deliberately downplaying the coronavirus
Trump’s refusal to warn Americans about COVID-19 went beyond his public comments. In the month after telling Woodward he understood the danger of exposure to the coronavirus, he held five campaign rallies, putting tens of thousands of people at potential risk. https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-09-09/furor-erupts-over-trump-telling-woodward-on-coronavirus
Woodward book: Trump says he knew coronavirus was ‘deadly’ and worse than the flu while intentionally misleading Americans Woodward book: Trump says he knew coronavirus was ‘deadly’ and worse than the flu while intentionally misleading Americans
Sturgis rally may have caused more than 250,000 new coronavirus cases, study finds Economists researching the cost of a “superspreading event” estimate that the public health price tag of Sturgis could be more than $12.2 billion. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sturgis-rally-may-have-caused-250-000-new-coronavirus-cases-n1239577
Emails show HHS official trying to muzzle Fauci Emails obtained by POLITICO show a top aide at the department dictating what the nation’s top infections disease expert should say during media interviews. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/09/emails-show-hhs-muzzle-fauci-410861?cid=apn
Kayleigh McEnany Says Trump ‘Never Lied’ About COVID-19 After Recordings Show He Lied
President Trump admitted to journalist Bob Woodward that he wanted to downplay the coronavirus threat. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kayleigh-mcenany-trump-lies-coronavirus_n_5f590639c5b6b48507fad86d?ncid=APPLENEWS00001
NOW THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS IT, it’s called the “coronavirus” not the “China-virus.”
NOW THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS IT, it’s a non-partisan issue, not a “hoax invented by Democrats.”
NOW THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS IT, we must follow the advice of experts?
200,000 Americans are dead.
NOW THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS IT, they’re approaching it with “an abundance of caution.”
This was the President LESS THAN A MONTH AGO, bullying a journalist to REMOVE his mask:
US is no longer collecting data at a federal level. How is the virus supposed to be traced or controlled?
61% of independents and 35% of Republicans think Trump is pressuring the FDA/CDC to rush an unsafe vaccine through…and that was BEFORE yesterday’s Woodward revelations. Charles Gaba on Twitter
What Derailed America’s Covid Testing: Three Lost Weeks
The coronavirus spread unchecked for 21 critical February days while problems plagued the federal test for the pathogen; ‘We quickly got behind’ https://www.wsj.com/articles/us-coronavirus-covid-testing-delay-11597267543
Trump officials actively lobbied to deny states money for vaccine rollout last fall — STAT
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