The president may have been referring to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistic
this week that the hospitalization rate is 102.5 per 100,000. But the
long-term health ramifications of the coronavirus remain unknown, and
mortality rates continue to vary greatly for reasons that are not
immediately clear. There are now more than 2.8 million diagnosed cases in the United States and more than 129,000 deaths.
Monday, July 6, 2020
Trump Falsely Claims ‘99 Percent’ of Virus Cases Are ‘Totally Harmless’
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-factcheck.html
False. No
matter how you define harmless, most public health experts and
respected coronavirus disease models would flatly contradict Mr. Trump’s
assessment.
Experts say the president appears to
have seized only on a death rate estimate of 1 percent or less that does
not capture the entire impact of the disease, and excludes a multitude
of thousands who have spent weeks in the hospital or weeks at home with
mild to moderate symptoms that still caused debilitating health
problems.
Patients fortunate enough to survive a lengthy hospitalization and weeks in an intensive care unit or on a ventilator face a long road to recovery.
Many will suffer debilitating long-term effects, including impaired
lung function, neurological problems and cognitive deficits, and some
may require lifelong care and not regain full independence.
FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn refuses to say whether there is any validity to Donald Trump's claim that 99 per cent of coronavirus cases are 'totally harmless'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8491689/Stephen-Hahn-refuses-comment-Trumps-claim-99-coronavirus-cases-totally-harmless.html
ABC News host Martha Raddaz asked: 'We
have more than 129,000 dead and more than 2.8 million cases. How many
cases would you say are harmless?'
'Well,
what I'd say is, you know, any case, we don't want to have in this
country,' he continued to avoid directly answering the question. 'This
is a very rapidly moving epidemic, rapidly-moving pandemic. And any
death, any case is tragic. And we want to do everything we can to
prevent that.'
During a White House
speech Saturday to commemorate Independence Day celebrations, Trump
reasserted that the U.S. has more confirmed cases than any other country
due to bolstered levels of testing.
FDA commissioner pressed by Sunday show hosts over Trump's claim '99 percent' of coronavirus cases 'harmless'
https://www.foxnews.com/media/fda-commissioner-trump-99-percent-coronavirus-cases-harmless
FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn on Sunday refused to comment when pressed by multiple Sunday show hosts over President Trump’s suggestion the previous day that 99 percent of coronavirus cases were “harmless.”
As Trump gaslights America about coronavirus, Republicans face a critical choice
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/06/politics/us-election-trump-coronavirus-republicans/index.html
The gulf between reality and President Donald Trump's delusional vision of a waning coronavirus threat was on full display this weekend, as cases soared in key hotspots while he delivered speeches at Mount Rushmore and at the White House, with little physical distancing and few masks, directly contradicting the advice from his public health experts.
A majority of Americans do not approve
of Trump's handling of the pandemic (or his response to the nation's
racial reckoning), which has stirred consternation even in his own
campaign as the President banks on an economic revival and good news
about a vaccine to restore his political fortunes.
When the President's own medical advisers refuse to correct his misleading claim, the coronavirus trust gap grows
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/05/politics/trump-medical-advisers-fda-commissioner/index.html
On Saturday night, President Donald Trump made the dangerously inaccurate claim that 99% of coronavirus cases are "totally harmless." On
Sunday morning, one of his top health experts failed to correct the
assertion, a stunning breakdown of the government's core duty to keep
Americans safe and protect the public health.
CNN's Dana Bash pressed US Food and Drug Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn repeatedly Sunday morning to explain the President's false statement in his Fourth of July speech
from the South Lawn of the White House, one that minimized the
devastating effects of the virus and seemed to encourage Americans to
ignore the deadly risks of a pandemic that has so far claimed more than 129,000 American lives.
Hahn's refusal to specifically address Trump's misleading claim
underscored the growing trust gap between Americans and this
administration. Hahn apparently was afraid to correct the President -- a
pattern that has repeated itself over and over again in an
administration where disagreeing with or undercutting Trump has cost
many appointees their jobs.
Scoop: Trump regrets Kushner advice on prison reform
https://www.axios.com/trump-kushner-second-thoughts-408d5a33-725d-442a-88e4-d6ab6742c139.html
President Trump has told people in recent days that he regrets
following some of son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner's
political advice — including supporting criminal justice reform — and
will stick closer to his own instincts, three people with direct
knowledge of the president's thinking tell Axios.
Between the lines: Trump never really wanted
criminal justice reform, according to people who have discussed the
subject with him privately. He's told them he only supported it because
Kushner asked him to. Though he has repeatedly trumpeted it as a
politically useful policy at times.
The president also pays close attention to Fox News' Tucker Carlson. A few weeks ago, in a brutal monologue, Carlson blamed Kushner for giving Trump bad advice.
Viewpoint: What Donald Trump gets wrong about Somalia
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53268582
President Donald Trump is making Somali-American congresswoman Ilhan
Omar one of the bogeywomen of his campaign for re-election to the White
House in November - and by proxy her country of birth, Somalia.
In
his most recent attack, at a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he tore
into the 37-year-old alleging that she wanted to bring the "anarchy" of
Somalia to the US.
"She would like to make the government of our
country just like the country from where she came - Somalia. No
government, no safety, no police, no nothing, just anarchy. And now,
she's telling us how to run our country. No, thank-you."
Ms Omar,
who arrived in the US as a child refugee in 1995, is the congressional
representative for Minnesota, which includes the city of Minneapolis
where African-American George Floyd was killed by police in May,
reigniting Black Lives Matter protests.
But it was Ms Omar's Somali heritage the president chose to
focus on in Tulsa, perhaps to distract from all the turmoil and unrest
closer to home.
In response Ms Omar said his remarks were
"racist". She added that his anger came out of a recent poll that had
shown him trailing his rival, Democratic presidential candidate Joe
Biden, in her state, which is home to a large Somali-American community.
Top ultra-Orthodox MK threatens party will exit coalition if yeshivas shuttered
https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-ultra-orthodox-mk-threatens-party-will-exit-coalition-if-yeshivas-shuttered/
MK Moshe Gafni has threatened to withdraw his ultra-Orthodox United
Torah Judaism Party from the coalition if the government decides to
close down yeshivas in the face of the second wave of the COVID-19
pandemic.
Following reports that both the Health Ministry and National
Security Council were pushing for yeshiva closures ahead of Monday’s
coronavirus-focused cabinet meeting, Gafni told Hebrew media on Sunday
that such a move would force him to turn to his party’s rabbinic
leadership and “advise them not to be partners in such a government.”
Sunday, July 5, 2020
Trump claims 99% of US Covid-19 cases are 'totally harmless' as infections surge
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/05/trump-claims-99-of-us-covid-19-cases-are-totally-harmless-as-infections-surge
“We got hit by the virus that came from China,” the president said,
prompting a strange whoop and applause from someone in the audience.
“We’ve made a lot of progress. Our strategy is moving along well. It
goes out in one area, it rears back its ugly face in another area. But
we’ve learned a lot. We’ve learned how to put out the flame.”
The number of infections now regularly tops 50,000 per day, higher
than in April when the US was in the first grip of infections. Dr
Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious diseases expert, warned this
week: “I think it’s pretty obvious that we are not going in the right
direction.”
Trump returned to his now familiar and baseless complaint that
America has a high caseload because it performs more tests. “Now we have
tested almost 40m people. By so doing, we show cases, 99% of which are
totally harmless. Results that no other country can show because no
other country has the testing that we have, not in terms of the numbers
or in terms of quality.”
It was unclear how the president arrived at the “99%” harmless figure.
Trump uses July 4th address to put forward a dangerously misleading claim
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/05/politics/donald-trump-july-4-coronavirus/index.html
As the nation marked a somber Fourth of July with many Americans confined to their homes amid an alarming rise in coronavirus cases, President Donald Trump used his stage on the White House's South Lawn Saturday
to put forward a mystifying -- and dangerously misleading claim -- that
99% of coronavirus cases in America are "totally harmless."
The
President's assertion without evidence about the virus was his latest
attempt to minimize the threat of the coronavirus as it ravages the
United States with cases rising across the country, and as an increasing
number of top Republican officials from the nation's governors to
members of Congress pleaded with Americans to redouble
their efforts to curb the spread of the virus, warning of the dangerous
consequences if current trends continue.
It was in that same speech that he made
his latest puzzling claim about the virus, as he described the
administration's flawed and lagging response to the pandemic as a great
American success story and falsely suggested, once again, that the rise
in cases in the US is due to increased testing.
It is unclear how the President could be
under the impression that 99% of cases are "totally harmless." There
have now been at least 2.8 million cases of coronavirus in the United States, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University. While the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about 35% of cases
are asymptomatic, those patients can still spread the virus. As of
Saturday, Johns Hopkins estimated that the fatality rate for the US was
4.6%. The White House has not returned CNN's request for comment on the
President's claim.
The commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration on Sunday declined to defend the President and repeatedly refused to say whether Trump's remark is true or false.
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