Fact Checking Trump on Trump Response to Coronavirus
President Trump downplayed the Coronavirus Threat and delayed U.S.
response for
over 3
months-
allowing
spread and much more harm
11-15-2019
US
alerted Israel, NATO to disease outbreak in China in November — TV report
;
11-30- 2019 US intelligence warned of China's spreading contagion in November 2019
2-7-2020
President
Donald Trump admitted he knew weeks before the first confirmed US coronavirus
death that the virus was dangerous, airborne, highly contagious and "more
deadly than even your strenuous flus," and that he repeatedly played it
down publicly, according to legendary journalist Bob Woodward in his new book
"Rag
e
"
&
recordings he released.
"This
is deadly stuff," Trump told Woodward on February 7.
But that’s not
what he told the public.
He
deliberately lied to the public
& many tens of thousands died because
of
it
& a serious recession has resulted.
GOP
G
overnor describes
Trump as
clueless, dishonest,
and
useless on pandemic response
1-29
Peter Navarro, President
Donald Trump’s trade adviser, warned the administration in late January that
the coronavirus
outbreak could put millions of Americans at risk and wind up costing the United
States trillions of dollars.
2-21
Dr. Robert Kadlec, the
top disaster response official at the Department of Health and Human Services,
convened the White House coronavirus task force on February 21. During his
meeting, the group conducted a mock-up exercise of the pandemic. It predicted
110 million infections, 7.7 million hospitalizations and 586,000 deaths. As a
result, the group "concluded they would soon
need
to move toward aggressive social distancing
, even at the risk of severe
disruption to the nation's economy and the daily lives of millions of
Americans."
U.S. government
was beset by denial
and dysfunction as coronavirus raged
3
-13
The
extremely slow rollout of tests to identify coronavirus cases in the United
States
is
hampering the country’s response to the outbreak and preventing health
officials from knowing how far the virus has already spread.
3-17
U.S. Lags in Coronavirus
Testing
After Slow Response to Outbreak
3
-27
Reuters,
Mixed messages, test delays hamper
U.S. coronavirus respons
e
America last: Trump chose a quick buck over American lives
The Trump
administration’s botched coronavirus response, explained
-
We knew Donald Trump was lying about
COVID-19
all along, but it's shocking when you line it
all up
Mar 30
As the
coronavirus
spread across the United States,
President
Trump
repeatedly insisted
that it was nothing to worry about
.
New
Evidence Shows Trump—Who Says He Knew Covid-19 'Going to Be Horrible'—Allowed
Exports of Crucial Supplies to Continue
/
;
Trump admin fumbling medical equipment supply chain management
|
https://webmail.centurylink.net/h/search?si=16&so=0&sc=404010&st=message&action=view&xim=1
;
Respiratory doc
tor
:
Trump should have issues a national lockdown two
months ago
-
Dr. Vin Gupta
U.S. ‘wasted’ months before preparing for virus pandemic
For much of the South, it is already too little, too late
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/17/politics/republican-governors-stay-at-home-coronavirus/index.html
4-27
The U.S. response was much
slower and less effective than many countries,
r
esulting
in the
U.S. having more cases than the next 5 countries
combined.
By
The Editorial Board
- Boston Globe-
no serious medical professional thinks is a good
idea to employ against Covid-19.
-
millions of deaths possible
9-15
In all 13 countries surveyed,
all
rank the U.S. as doing the poorest job on CV response of any country
.
10-10
Top
US Medical Journal Breaks 208-Year Precedent With Scathing Case to Vote Out
'Dangerously Incompetent' Trump
-
The
New
England Journal of Medicine
According to
coronavirus reporting statistics, (Worldometers.info
,Oct1
)- U.S had far more cases and deaths than
any other
country. U.S. had 6
times the number of deaths per 1M population as Germany, 3 times the number of
deaths per 1M population as Canada, 70 times the number of deaths per 1M
population as S. Korea, & 200 times the number of deaths per 1M population
as China
US unemployment insurance system, which is among
the weakest in the advanced countries both in terms of coverage (the fraction
of workers entitled to benefits) and replacement rates (benefits as a ratio of
normal pay).
Joseph Stiglitz, Economist, Nobel Prize in
Economics,
Columbia Univ.
Analysis of $2 trillion package
The Coronavirus Hit Germany And The UK Just Days Apart But The
Countries Have Responded Differently.
Decisions
delayed by just a few days may have had a significant impact.