http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/291398
President-elect Joe Biden on Monday warned that President Donald
Trump's unwillingness to accept the outcome of the 2020 election could
hamper his incoming administration's ability to rapidly distribute a
coronavirus vaccine.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/16/politics/trump-election-challenge-biden-legitimacy/index.html
President Donald Trump's refusal to coordinate with President-elect Joe Biden on the critical Covid-19 vaccine is bringing a staggering possibility into clearer view: that an outgoing US commander in chief is actively working to sabotage his successor.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/16/trump-vaccine-moderna-biden-coronavirus
“Another vaccine just announced,” Trump tweeted, seeking to claim credit. “This time by Moderna, 95% effective. For those great ‘historians’, please remember that these great discoveries, which will end the China Plague, all took place on my watch!”
Rather than working to combat the virus, which is spreading faster than ever and on average killing more than 1,000 Americans a day, Trump has stayed focused on unsubstantiated claims that the presidential election was stolen.
Critics say Trump has all but surrendered to the pandemic, which has killed more than 244,000 people in the US and is averaging more than 100,000 cases per day. Michael Osterholm, an adviser to Biden, told NBC on Sunday: “We are in a very dangerous period – the most dangerous public health period since 1918.”
Our Ruling
In a tweet, the HHS assistant secretary for public affairs said that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo “forced” nursing homes across the state to admit COVID-positive patients and that this policy fueled the spread of COVID-19 that led to thousands of deaths in the nursing home population.
Although nursing homes felt pressure to accept COVID-positive patients, they were not actually forced to do so. State regulations require nursing homes to accept patients only if they can care for them, and they could have refused them on those grounds.
In addition, it’s unclear the extent to which the governor’s policy was responsible for nursing home COVID-19 deaths. Infection control is a long-standing problem in nursing homes, predating the pandemic, and a report showed peak numbers of nursing home deaths came prior to the peak influx of patients as a result of Cuomo’s advisory. While the introduction of COVID-19 positive patients into nursing homes no doubt had an effect on infection spread, Caputo’s statement suggests it was solely responsible. That’s not what the evidence shows.
We rate this Mostly False.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/291367
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said he would be making a call to US president-elect Joe Biden in the near future.
In an apparent slip-of-the-tongue, Netanyahu attempted to avoid referring to Biden as the incoming president.
https://time.com/5912350/trump-lawyers-withdraw-voter-fraud-claim-pennsylvania/
President Donald Trump’s campaign is withdrawing a central part of its lawsuit seeking to stop the certification of the election results in Pennsylvania, where Democrat Joe Biden beat Trump to capture the state and help win the White House.
Ahead of a Tuesday hearing in the case, Trump’s campaign dropped the allegation that hundreds of thousands of mail-in and absentee ballots — 682,479, to be precise — were illegally processed without its representatives watching.
The campaign’s slimmed-down lawsuit, filed in
federal court on Sunday, maintains the aim of blocking Pennsylvania from
certifying a victory for Biden in the state, and it maintains its claim
that Democratic voters were treated more favorably than Republican
voters.
President Donald Trump is facing a barrage of calls to permit potentially life-saving transition talks between his health officials and incoming President-elect Joe Biden's aides on a fast-worsening pandemic he is continuing to ignore in his obsessive effort to discredit an election that he clearly lost.
