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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2021 21:26:39 GMT
Anderson Cooper Says Donald Trump Can Have Vaccine Credit On One Damning Conditionwww.yahoo.com/huffpost/anderson-cooper-donald-trump-covid-failings-083523554.html
Lee Moran·Reporter, HuffPost
Sat, March 13, 2021, 1:35 AM
CNN’s Anderson Cooper acknowledged Friday that ex-President Donald Trump “certainly deserves” some credit for his administration’s fast-tracking of the COVID-19 vaccine via Operation Warp Speed.
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But Cooper argued that “if the former president wants any credit for that, which he certainly deserves, he also has to accept responsibility for the failures of his administration, which were many on testing, prevention, leadership, which contributed to the sickening death toll.”
The irony was that had Trump handled the pandemic successfully, he would “likely have won reelection in a landslide,” said Cooper. But “instead he made recognizing the very existence of a killer virus a test of political loyalty.”
Trump turned his own hospitalization from the coronavirus into “another chance to teach all the wrong lessons,” Cooper continued, which without a vaccine “were lessons in how to get sick and possibly die.”
“Think about that. Without a vaccine, modeling safe behavior is all you can do. Yet he did the opposite. All the time. And reveled in it,” Cooper concluded.
Watch the video here:
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2021 21:29:33 GMT
LET'S LOOK BACK AT TRUMP'S COVID 19 AND PANDEMIC RESPONSE FROM THE BEGINNING. YOU TELL ME HE COULDN'T HAVE PREVENTED THIS DISASTER BROUGHT UPON THIS COUNTRY EARLIER.TRUMP COVID-19 RESPONSE:“Seems to me if Trump and his administration were doing their jobs individual governors would not have been put into the crisis positions they were forced into without any of the information he was withholding. States aren't prepared to deal with a national pandemic with no national strategy or help from the federal government and such a partisan, divisive president.
Now the story of COVID-19 and Trump’s response that we know about thus far:
Obama Prepared for a Potential Pandemic. Trump Gutted His Work.
couriernewsroom.com/2020/04/14/obama-prepared-for-a-potential-pandemic-trump-gutted-his-work/#:~:text=The%20Trump%20administration%20also%20famously%20disbanded%20the%20National,U.S.%20government%20to%20prepare%20for%20the%20next%20outbreak
Before anyone even knew about the disease (even in China) Trump disbanded the pandemic response team that Obama had put in place. He cut funding to the CDC, and he cut our contribution to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?
www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/
Trump fired Rear Admiral Timothy Ziemer, the person on the National Security Council in charge of stopping the spread of infectious diseases before they reach our country - a position created by the Obama administration.
Donald Trump was warned about a pandemic 3 months before Covid struck: Report
www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/donald-trump-was-warned-about-a-pandemic-3-months-before-covid-struck-report/ar-BB16UBdO
Donald Trump was warned about a pandemic 3 months before Covid struck. A report in September 2019 by a team of top economists in the Donald Trump administration warned Trump about the looming dangers of a pandemic outbreak and presented a 41-page report, but the advice was not heeded. The report had "warned a pandemic disease could kill as many as half a million Americans and cause up to $3.79 trillion in damage to the US economy".
Trump was warned in January of Covid-19's devastating impact, memos reveal
www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/07/donald-trump-coronavirus-memos-warning-peter-navarro
When the outbreak started in China, Trump assumed it was China’s problem and sent no research, supplies or help of any kind. We were in a trade war, why should he help them?
In January he received a briefing from our intelligence organizations that the outbreak was much worse than China was admitting and that it would definitely hit our country if something wasn’t done to prevent it. He ignored the report, not trusting our own intelligence.
Why Did the Trump Administration Reject the WHO Coronavirus Test?
www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a31677485/coronavirus-trump-administration-rejected-who-test/
When the disease spread to Europe, the World Health Organization offered a plethora of tests to the United States. Trump turned them down, saying private companies here would make the tests “better” if we needed them. (leave aside that Jared Kushner’s brother runs a company that’s involved in testing) However, he never ordered U.S. companies to make tests and they had no profit motive to do so on their own.
Timeline: The Regulations—and Regulators—That Delayed Coronavirus Testing
thedispatch.com/p/timeline-the-regulationsand-regulatorsthat
According to scientists at Yale and several public university medical schools, when they asked for permission to start working on our own testing protocol and potential treatments or vaccines, they were denied by Trump’s FDA.
Trump Calls Coronavirus Fear The Dems' 'New Hoax' As More Cases Confirmed | The 11th Hour | MSNBC
When Trump knew about the first case in the United States he did nothing. It was just one case and the patient was isolated. When doctors and scientists started screaming in the media that this was a mistake, Trump claimed it was a “liberal hoax” conjured up to try to make him “look bad after impeachment failed.” This happened after overwhelming evidence of Trump's ties to Russia.
conservatism.freeforums.net/board/153/russian-connections
The next time Trump spoke of COVID-19, we had SIXTY-FOUR CONFIRMED CASES but Trump went before microphones and told the American public that we only had FIFTEEN cases “and pretty soon that number will be close to zero.” All while the disease was spreading, he took no action to get more tests.
Did Trump Ban All Travel From China at the Start of the Pandemic?
www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-ban-travel-china-pandemic/
www.forbes.com/sites/geoffwhitmore/2020/10/19/when-did-president-trump-ban-travel-from-china-and-can-you-travel-to-china-now/#a22e99374847
What Trump did was to stop flights from China from coming here. However, Trump’s travel restrictions were not all-inclusive, and went into effect on February 2, after 45 countries had already imposed their own restrictions, according to the outlet’s reporting. Trump’s restrictions also allowed travel from China to the States for more than five months after their announcement, and more than 8.000 Chinese and foreign nationals still entered the country after the sanctions the Associated Press described as “porous” were imposed. In the first months of the limited restrictions, at least 27,000 Americans also flew to the United States from China.
This was too late and accomplished nothing according to scientists and doctors. By then the disease was worldwide and was already spreading exponentially in the U.S. by Americans, not Chinese people as Trump would like you to believe.”
Donald Trump’s team ‘warned CEOs about dangers of Covid before the public’
metro.co.uk/2020/10/15/donald-trumps-team-warned-ceos-about-dangers-of-covid-before-the-public-13427679/
February 24th, the president’s economic team held a three-day gathering to warn wealthy Republican donors of the potential impact of the virus, according to documents obtained by the New York Times. Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, also gave a different message to board members than what he had said on television on February 25, when he declared ‘it’s pretty close to airtight,’ in an effort to downplay the outbreak.
Trump Reinvents Pandemic Response Wheel After Scrapping Team Obama Left Him
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-coronavirus-threat_n_5e56e9a7c5b66137fb5d4445
February 26, six years after ridiculing predecessor Barack Obama’s handling of a major health crisis and two years after dismantling the pandemic response team Obama left behind, President Donald Trump is now reinventing the infectious disease wheel.
Trump administration lobbied against states on COVID-19 vaccine funding
news.yahoo.com/trump-administration-lobbied-against-states-112206617.html
Top Trump health officials urged Congress last fall not to give states any additional money for the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, as state officials warned they didn't have the funding they needed.
Trump Administration Incompetent Response to Coronavirus
republicansexposed.org/trump-administration-coronavirus-response/
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