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Alberto Raphael Pinto
godoggo
Trump has made a lot of promises about actions to fight the coronavirus pandemic.Most of them have been half truths or embellishments.
For example:
Naval hospital ships
Trump announced Wed. that the Navy would dispatch its two hospital ships, the USNS Comfort and the USNS Mercy, to help treat patients and free up land-based hospitals for coronavirus patients.
"So those two ships are prepared to go, and they can be launched over the next week or so," Trump said, calling the ships in "tip-top shape."
Well, not so much.
The Navy said that the Comfort was actually undergoing repairs in Norfolk, Va., and it would be weeks before it could sail.
FDA drug approval
On Thur. Trump touted that the Food and Drug Administration had "approved" use of an anti-malaria drug called chloroquine to treat patients afflicted with the coronavirus. He had a “hunch” that this was the cure.
"We're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately," Trump said, calling it "a tremendous breakthrough" and a potential "game-changer."
But FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn immediately tried to tamp down Trump's enthusiasm, saying that "a large, pragmatic clinical trial" would be needed first to determine the drug's usefulness before making it available to coronavirus patients.
Hahn said he couldn't "speculate about a timeline" for the drug's availability.
Trump's enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine spilled into another press conference on Friday, when he again described it as a potential wonder drug.
And again, a public health official — this time, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top immunologist on the White House's response team — tried to rein in the optimism by echoing the need for clinical proof that it would make a difference.
On Thursday, Trump said another drug, Remdesivir, had "also been approved, or very close to approved" by the FDA for treating patients coronavirus. In fact, that drug is undergoing a clinical trial and is months away from being ready for use.
The website
Last Friday, Trump said at a Rose Garden news conference that Google has 1,700 engineers developing a new website that would help Americans determine whether they should seek testing for the coronavirus.
The president sought to cast his own project as a triumph compared with the initial failure of President Barack Obama to roll out a website as part of the changes to the health care market enacted in 2009.
"Google is helping to develop a website," Trump said. "It's going to be very quickly done — unlike websites of the past — to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location."
Within hours, Google attempted to clarify the president's comments. It said an affiliated company, Verily, was working on the project but on a limited scale only for people in the San Francisco area.
"Verily is in the early stages of development," Google said, "and planning to roll testing out in the Bay Area, with the hope of expanding more broadly over time."
Unfortunately, there are insufficient tests available to test anyone.
Medical supplies
On Wednesday, Trump met with a group of nurses at the White House, telling them that the administration had arranged for a major new supply of the type of respirator in high demand during the pandemic.
"We've ordered 500 million N95 masks to drive private production," Trump said. He also said that construction companies were being asked to donate unused masks. The next day at a briefing, Vice President Pence stated: "We've vastly increased the supply of medical masks."
But hospitals continue to report that they are running short of masks, as are pharmacists.
Loose-fitting surgical masks aren't appropriate for dealing with the pandemic authorities say; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a graphic detailing the important differences between a surgical mask and an N95 respirator.
Testing
One of the most frequent exaggerations coming from Trump is the availability of coronavirus tests.
When he visited the CDC in Atlanta earlier this month, Trump claimed that "They have the tests. And the tests are beautiful. Anybody that needs a test gets a test."
Pence made a similar claim last week, saying that "a million tests are in the field" and that "by the end of this week, another 4 million tests will be distributed."
Americans who feel sick still can’t get tested. Fauci acknowledged that there clearly is a gap between the supply and the demand.
Trump and Pence say they don't want every American — particularly those who are feeling well — to be tested. Yet people who are not critically sick are being sent home without testing. They are told to “assume they have covid-19” and come back only if there condition worsens. Not knowing if you have the virus dose not help contain the virus.
In summary, Trump just needs to shut up and let the experts talk.
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godoggo
Trump has made a lot of promises about actions to fight the coronavirus pandemic.Most of them have been half truths or embellishments.
For example:
Naval hospital ships
Trump announced Wed. that the Navy would dispatch its two hospital ships, the USNS Comfort and the USNS Mercy, to help treat patients and free up land-based hospitals for coronavirus patients.
"So those two ships are prepared to go, and they can be launched over the next week or so," Trump said, calling the ships in "tip-top shape."
Well, not so much.
The Navy said that the Comfort was actually undergoing repairs in Norfolk, Va., and it would be weeks before it could sail.
FDA drug approval
On Thur. Trump touted that the Food and Drug Administration had "approved" use of an anti-malaria drug called chloroquine to treat patients afflicted with the coronavirus. He had a “hunch” that this was the cure.
"We're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately," Trump said, calling it "a tremendous breakthrough" and a potential "game-changer."
But FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn immediately tried to tamp down Trump's enthusiasm, saying that "a large, pragmatic clinical trial" would be needed first to determine the drug's usefulness before making it available to coronavirus patients.
Hahn said he couldn't "speculate about a timeline" for the drug's availability.
Trump's enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine spilled into another press conference on Friday, when he again described it as a potential wonder drug.
And again, a public health official — this time, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top immunologist on the White House's response team — tried to rein in the optimism by echoing the need for clinical proof that it would make a difference.
On Thursday, Trump said another drug, Remdesivir, had "also been approved, or very close to approved" by the FDA for treating patients coronavirus. In fact, that drug is undergoing a clinical trial and is months away from being ready for use.
The website
Last Friday, Trump said at a Rose Garden news conference that Google has 1,700 engineers developing a new website that would help Americans determine whether they should seek testing for the coronavirus.
The president sought to cast his own project as a triumph compared with the initial failure of President Barack Obama to roll out a website as part of the changes to the health care market enacted in 2009.
"Google is helping to develop a website," Trump said. "It's going to be very quickly done — unlike websites of the past — to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location."
Within hours, Google attempted to clarify the president's comments. It said an affiliated company, Verily, was working on the project but on a limited scale only for people in the San Francisco area.
"Verily is in the early stages of development," Google said, "and planning to roll testing out in the Bay Area, with the hope of expanding more broadly over time."
Unfortunately, there are insufficient tests available to test anyone.
Medical supplies
On Wednesday, Trump met with a group of nurses at the White House, telling them that the administration had arranged for a major new supply of the type of respirator in high demand during the pandemic.
"We've ordered 500 million N95 masks to drive private production," Trump said. He also said that construction companies were being asked to donate unused masks. The next day at a briefing, Vice President Pence stated: "We've vastly increased the supply of medical masks."
But hospitals continue to report that they are running short of masks, as are pharmacists.
Loose-fitting surgical masks aren't appropriate for dealing with the pandemic authorities say; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a graphic detailing the important differences between a surgical mask and an N95 respirator.
Testing
One of the most frequent exaggerations coming from Trump is the availability of coronavirus tests.
When he visited the CDC in Atlanta earlier this month, Trump claimed that "They have the tests. And the tests are beautiful. Anybody that needs a test gets a test."
Pence made a similar claim last week, saying that "a million tests are in the field" and that "by the end of this week, another 4 million tests will be distributed."
Americans who feel sick still can’t get tested. Fauci acknowledged that there clearly is a gap between the supply and the demand.
Trump and Pence say they don't want every American — particularly those who are feeling well — to be tested. Yet people who are not critically sick are being sent home without testing. They are told to “assume they have covid-19” and come back only if there condition worsens. Not knowing if you have the virus dose not help contain the virus.
In summary, Trump just needs to shut up and let the experts talk.
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Anthony Pinlo
godoggo
Trump has made a lot of promises about actions to fight the coronavirus pandemic.Most of them have been half truths or embellishments.
For example:
Naval hospital ships
Trump announced Wed. that the Navy would dispatch its two hospital ships, the USNS Comfort and the USNS Mercy, to help treat patients and free up land-based hospitals for coronavirus patients.
"So those two ships are prepared to go, and they can be launched over the next week or so," Trump said, calling the ships in "tip-top shape."
Well, not so much.
The Navy said that the Comfort was actually undergoing repairs in Norfolk, Va., and it would be weeks before it could sail.
FDA drug approval
On Thur. Trump touted that the Food and Drug Administration had "approved" use of an anti-malaria drug called chloroquine to treat patients afflicted with the coronavirus. He had a “hunch” that this was the cure.
"We're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately," Trump said, calling it "a tremendous breakthrough" and a potential "game-changer."
But FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn immediately tried to tamp down Trump's enthusiasm, saying that "a large, pragmatic clinical trial" would be needed first to determine the drug's usefulness before making it available to coronavirus patients.
Hahn said he couldn't "speculate about a timeline" for the drug's availability.
Trump's enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine spilled into another press conference on Friday, when he again described it as a potential wonder drug.
And again, a public health official — this time, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top immunologist on the White House's response team — tried to rein in the optimism by echoing the need for clinical proof that it would make a difference.
On Thursday, Trump said another drug, Remdesivir, had "also been approved, or very close to approved" by the FDA for treating patients coronavirus. In fact, that drug is undergoing a clinical trial and is months away from being ready for use.
The website
Last Friday, Trump said at a Rose Garden news conference that Google has 1,700 engineers developing a new website that would help Americans determine whether they should seek testing for the coronavirus.
The president sought to cast his own project as a triumph compared with the initial failure of President Barack Obama to roll out a website as part of the changes to the health care market enacted in 2009.
"Google is helping to develop a website," Trump said. "It's going to be very quickly done — unlike websites of the past — to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location."
Within hours, Google attempted to clarify the president's comments. It said an affiliated company, Verily, was working on the project but on a limited scale only for people in the San Francisco area.
"Verily is in the early stages of development," Google said, "and planning to roll testing out in the Bay Area, with the hope of expanding more broadly over time."
Unfortunately, there are insufficient tests available to test anyone.
Medical supplies
On Wednesday, Trump met with a group of nurses at the White House, telling them that the administration had arranged for a major new supply of the type of respirator in high demand during the pandemic.
"We've ordered 500 million N95 masks to drive private production," Trump said. He also said that construction companies were being asked to donate unused masks. The next day at a briefing, Vice President Pence stated: "We've vastly increased the supply of medical masks."
But hospitals continue to report that they are running short of masks, as are pharmacists.
Loose-fitting surgical masks aren't appropriate for dealing with the pandemic authorities say; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a graphic detailing the important differences between a surgical mask and an N95 respirator.
Testing
One of the most frequent exaggerations coming from Trump is the availability of coronavirus tests.
When he visited the CDC in Atlanta earlier this month, Trump claimed that "They have the tests. And the tests are beautiful. Anybody that needs a test gets a test."
Pence made a similar claim last week, saying that "a million tests are in the field" and that "by the end of this week, another 4 million tests will be distributed."
Americans who feel sick still can’t get tested. Fauci acknowledged that there clearly is a gap between the supply and the demand.
Trump and Pence say they don't want every American — particularly those who are feeling well — to be tested. Yet people who are not critically sick are being sent home without testing. They are told to “assume they have covid-19” and come back only if there condition worsens. Not knowing if you have the virus dose not help contain the virus.
In summary, Trump just needs to shut up and let the experts talk.
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Dan Alberto Raphael Akselrod
godoggo
Trump has made a lot of promises about actions to fight the coronavirus pandemic.Most of them have been half truths or embellishments.
For example:
Naval hospital ships
Trump announced Wed. that the Navy would dispatch its two hospital ships, the USNS Comfort and the USNS Mercy, to help treat patients and free up land-based hospitals for coronavirus patients.
"So those two ships are prepared to go, and they can be launched over the next week or so," Trump said, calling the ships in "tip-top shape."
Well, not so much.
The Navy said that the Comfort was actually undergoing repairs in Norfolk, Va., and it would be weeks before it could sail.
FDA drug approval
On Thur. Trump touted that the Food and Drug Administration had "approved" use of an anti-malaria drug called chloroquine to treat patients afflicted with the coronavirus. He had a “hunch” that this was the cure.
"We're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately," Trump said, calling it "a tremendous breakthrough" and a potential "game-changer."
But FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn immediately tried to tamp down Trump's enthusiasm, saying that "a large, pragmatic clinical trial" would be needed first to determine the drug's usefulness before making it available to coronavirus patients.
Hahn said he couldn't "speculate about a timeline" for the drug's availability.
Trump's enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine spilled into another press conference on Friday, when he again described it as a potential wonder drug.
And again, a public health official — this time, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top immunologist on the White House's response team — tried to rein in the optimism by echoing the need for clinical proof that it would make a difference.
On Thursday, Trump said another drug, Remdesivir, had "also been approved, or very close to approved" by the FDA for treating patients coronavirus. In fact, that drug is undergoing a clinical trial and is months away from being ready for use.
The website
Last Friday, Trump said at a Rose Garden news conference that Google has 1,700 engineers developing a new website that would help Americans determine whether they should seek testing for the coronavirus.
The president sought to cast his own project as a triumph compared with the initial failure of President Barack Obama to roll out a website as part of the changes to the health care market enacted in 2009.
"Google is helping to develop a website," Trump said. "It's going to be very quickly done — unlike websites of the past — to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location."
Within hours, Google attempted to clarify the president's comments. It said an affiliated company, Verily, was working on the project but on a limited scale only for people in the San Francisco area.
"Verily is in the early stages of development," Google said, "and planning to roll testing out in the Bay Area, with the hope of expanding more broadly over time."
Unfortunately, there are insufficient tests available to test anyone.
Medical supplies
On Wednesday, Trump met with a group of nurses at the White House, telling them that the administration had arranged for a major new supply of the type of respirator in high demand during the pandemic.
"We've ordered 500 million N95 masks to drive private production," Trump said. He also said that construction companies were being asked to donate unused masks. The next day at a briefing, Vice President Pence stated: "We've vastly increased the supply of medical masks."
But hospitals continue to report that they are running short of masks, as are pharmacists.
Loose-fitting surgical masks aren't appropriate for dealing with the pandemic authorities say; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a graphic detailing the important differences between a surgical mask and an N95 respirator.
Testing
One of the most frequent exaggerations coming from Trump is the availability of coronavirus tests.
When he visited the CDC in Atlanta earlier this month, Trump claimed that "They have the tests. And the tests are beautiful. Anybody that needs a test gets a test."
Pence made a similar claim last week, saying that "a million tests are in the field" and that "by the end of this week, another 4 million tests will be distributed."
Americans who feel sick still can’t get tested. Fauci acknowledged that there clearly is a gap between the supply and the demand.
Trump and Pence say they don't want every American — particularly those who are feeling well — to be tested. Yet people who are not critically sick are being sent home without testing. They are told to “assume they have covid-19” and come back only if there condition worsens. Not knowing if you have the virus dose not help contain the virus.
In summary, Trump just needs to shut up and let the experts talk.
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TrumpTrain2020
godoggo
Trump has made a lot of promises about actions to fight the coronavirus pandemic.Most of them have been half truths or embellishments.
For example:
Naval hospital ships
Trump announced Wed. that the Navy would dispatch its two hospital ships, the USNS Comfort and the USNS Mercy, to help treat patients and free up land-based hospitals for coronavirus patients.
"So those two ships are prepared to go, and they can be launched over the next week or so," Trump said, calling the ships in "tip-top shape."
Well, not so much.
The Navy said that the Comfort was actually undergoing repairs in Norfolk, Va., and it would be weeks before it could sail.
FDA drug approval
On Thur. Trump touted that the Food and Drug Administration had "approved" use of an anti-malaria drug called chloroquine to treat patients afflicted with the coronavirus. He had a “hunch” that this was the cure.
"We're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately," Trump said, calling it "a tremendous breakthrough" and a potential "game-changer."
But FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn immediately tried to tamp down Trump's enthusiasm, saying that "a large, pragmatic clinical trial" would be needed first to determine the drug's usefulness before making it available to coronavirus patients.
Hahn said he couldn't "speculate about a timeline" for the drug's availability.
Trump's enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine spilled into another press conference on Friday, when he again described it as a potential wonder drug.
And again, a public health official — this time, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top immunologist on the White House's response team — tried to rein in the optimism by echoing the need for clinical proof that it would make a difference.
On Thursday, Trump said another drug, Remdesivir, had "also been approved, or very close to approved" by the FDA for treating patients coronavirus. In fact, that drug is undergoing a clinical trial and is months away from being ready for use.
The website
Last Friday, Trump said at a Rose Garden news conference that Google has 1,700 engineers developing a new website that would help Americans determine whether they should seek testing for the coronavirus.
The president sought to cast his own project as a triumph compared with the initial failure of President Barack Obama to roll out a website as part of the changes to the health care market enacted in 2009.
"Google is helping to develop a website," Trump said. "It's going to be very quickly done — unlike websites of the past — to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location."
Within hours, Google attempted to clarify the president's comments. It said an affiliated company, Verily, was working on the project but on a limited scale only for people in the San Francisco area.
"Verily is in the early stages of development," Google said, "and planning to roll testing out in the Bay Area, with the hope of expanding more broadly over time."
Unfortunately, there are insufficient tests available to test anyone.
Medical supplies
On Wednesday, Trump met with a group of nurses at the White House, telling them that the administration had arranged for a major new supply of the type of respirator in high demand during the pandemic.
"We've ordered 500 million N95 masks to drive private production," Trump said. He also said that construction companies were being asked to donate unused masks. The next day at a briefing, Vice President Pence stated: "We've vastly increased the supply of medical masks."
But hospitals continue to report that they are running short of masks, as are pharmacists.
Loose-fitting surgical masks aren't appropriate for dealing with the pandemic authorities say; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a graphic detailing the important differences between a surgical mask and an N95 respirator.
Testing
One of the most frequent exaggerations coming from Trump is the availability of coronavirus tests.
When he visited the CDC in Atlanta earlier this month, Trump claimed that "They have the tests. And the tests are beautiful. Anybody that needs a test gets a test."
Pence made a similar claim last week, saying that "a million tests are in the field" and that "by the end of this week, another 4 million tests will be distributed."
Americans who feel sick still can’t get tested. Fauci acknowledged that there clearly is a gap between the supply and the demand.
Trump and Pence say they don't want every American — particularly those who are feeling well — to be tested. Yet people who are not critically sick are being sent home without testing. They are told to “assume they have covid-19” and come back only if there condition worsens. Not knowing if you have the virus dose not help contain the virus.
In summary, Trump just needs to shut up and let the experts talk.
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