The rapidly tanking Florida governor refuses to give local municipalities the power to help their constituents and was angry that President Biden pointed that out.
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“Future policy decisions should be guided by public health considerations rather than political ideology,” the study concluded. 
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"At one White House meeting, Kushner reportedly declared, “Free markets will solve this. That is not the role of government.” And through this all, it has gone unnoticed that Kushner owns a large stake in a real estate company now poised to make money off the economic distress caused by the pandemic that Trump has been unable to tame. Moreover, this firm’s opportunity for profit may be enhanced by the Trump White House’s decision not to press for more widespread coronavirus economic relief." - David Corn | MotherJones.com
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As workplace deaths and catastrophes mount, the Trump administration has scaled back safety inspections. Since the pandemic, OSHA has cut back even more.
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The network, said an MMFA researcher, “downplays the threat of the virus, dismisses the recommendations of public health officials, and misrepresents the scientific consensus on the disease.” Fox News hit viewers with an “avalanche of misinformation” in its weekday coverage of the coronavirus crisis...
Ali Senecal's curator insight,
October 11, 2020 8:42 PM
This article describes how an analysis found that Fox News had spread misinformation 253 in five days from July 6th to July 10th. Through this misinformation, Fox News politicized public health measures, and emphasized reopening despite public health concerns. This analysis also points out that companies such as Amazon, Kraft Heinz, Pzifer, and Verizon are leading sponsors of Fox News, helping the spread of misinformation and attempting to increase Trumps chance of being re-elected. It is interesting to look back on this now in October, and wonder just how many people still undermine the importance of following public health measures or simply believe coronavirus is a hoax because their only source of news comes from Fox and from reporters who constantly spread misinformation such as Laura Ingraham.
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President Donald Trump proclaimed that he would make a deal with a company that could sterilize masks about 20 times.The company he was so captured by had appeared on Steve Bannon’s podcast and NBC political analyst Jon Allen explained that a company called Prestige Ameritech has been arguing for...
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On Tuesday, Axios reported that Republicans are hiring “pro-Trump doctors” to advocate against stay-at-home restrictions and urge a swift reopening of state economies.
The plan discussed on a May conference call between the Trump campaign and GOP political operatives, audio of which was obtained by the Associated Press.
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has taken an aggressive stance on reopening, and he’s not as popular as some more cautious state leaders.
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Governors who think that reopening their states quickly will help their reelection chances should think again.
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As of Friday, the coronavirus pandemic has killed at least 50,000 people in the United States. That number is likely to be an undercount, and it’s possible we will never have a true reckoning. This article first appeared in Salon.
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U.S. Small Business Administration says it has made more loans in 14 days than it has made in 14 years.
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Americans are urged to be organize against President Donald Trump in a new protest display projected onto a building in Washington, DC. A video posted on Twitter shows the message “we are obligated to be outraged” projected onto one side of the building.
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At Thursday’s coronavirus task force press briefing, President Donald Trump was asked why the federal government is ending its support for COVID-19 testing programs around the country, he stood by that move.
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The U.S. has suffered 12,988 COVID-19 deaths but President Donald Trump is focused on a different problem: why the left is demanding news networks stop airing his daily coronavirus press briefings live.
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While healthcare workers and first responders across the United States combat the spread of COVID-19, Trump is preoccupied with his television ratings.
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DeSantis did it: He finally got a Florida pandemic surge that will top all the others - DailyKos.com
The aggressiveness with which Florida governor and obsessive Trump-wannabe Ron DeSantis has sought to boost his own state's pandemic infection rates just keeps ratcheting up.
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The U.S. is expected to cross a grim milestone on Monday that was unimagined by even the worst projections from the beginning of the pandemic nearly one year ago: Half a million dead from COVID-19. And those are just the direct deaths from recorded instances of the disease.
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Jared Kushner resisted taking a role in fighting the coronavirus pandemic from the very beginning, according to a new report about the White House response. A bipartisan group of heavy hitters and business leaders met March 20 at the Federal Emergency Management Agency to discuss how to make and distribute personal protective equipment, and certain […]
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In mid-July, the Trump administration instructed hospitals to change the way they reported data on their coronavirus patients, promising the new approach would provide better, more up-to-the-minute information about the virus’s toll and allow resources and supplies to be quickly dispatched across...
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At a news conference on Tuesday, according to the Tampa Bay Times, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) closed the door on the possibility of imposing another stay-at-home order or similar measure — even as a new outbreak of COVID-19 in his state is causing a spike in cases.
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There are no words that can adequately express my sorrow for those poor souls who are about to die because of this man's irresponsibility.
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During an exchange with a reporter during a press conference this Friday, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany struggled to defend President Trump’s recent comments where he claimed that he could “override” state governors who refuse to allow places of worship to reopen amid the coronavirus health crisis. McEnany was asked to reconcile Trump’s comments […]
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Ousted U.S. vaccine chief Dr. Rick Bright testified on Thursday that “lives were lost” because the Trump administration failed to ramp up the production of personal protective equipment like N95 respirators.
During testimony before a House committee, the former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority said that he sounded the alarm about the need for protective equipment at the outset of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
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40 different Rights Groups in the United States have come together to condemn Mitch McConnell for prioritizing the confirmations of conservative judges instead of actually trying to help American people who are struggling during the pandemic.
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After facing intense criticism for suggesting on Fox News last month that he’d rather perish from the new coronavirus than see instability in the state’s economic system, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said last night that he’s thankful Texas is beginning the process of reopening its economy because...
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Come hell or high water, Donald Trump wants America open for business by May 1. Under any normal president, that goal would have been set in consultation with public health experts and the administration would be laying the groundwork to safely and slowly return the country to some sense of normalcy.
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"On Thursday morning, Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany took a turn at gaslighting America about testing, claiming that Trump's administration had "quickly developed the most expansive and accurate testing system in the world." - Kerry Eleveld | DailyKos.com
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Trump was asked if the country needed nationwide coronavirus testing before people go back to work, and he said testing would be nice but isn't needed.
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Stat News this week interviewed a dozen different doctors from across the United States, and they all said that the federal government had failed to act in a timely manner to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.
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