President Trump’s reckless abandonment has made one occasion almost inevitable and is endangering more lives as a wave of viruses begins.
Some of the GOP members who did the Covid test: Donald Trump, Hope Hicks, Thom Tillis, Kellyanne Conway, Kayleigh McEnany, Mike Lee, Chris Christie and Ronna McDaniel.
Photographic illustration: 731; Photos: Bloomberg; fake images
Some of the Republican Party members who tested for Covid: Donald Trump, Hope Hicks, Thom Tillis, Kellyanne Conway, Kayleigh McEnany, Mike Lee, Chris Christie, and Ronna McDaniel.
Photographic illustration: 731; Photos: Bloomberg; fake images
Photographic illustration: 731; Photos: Bloomberg; fake images
SARS-CoV-2 pays no attention to partisan affiliation. It also doesn’t pay attention to the country that’s turning the pandemic, nor does it promise that a vaccine is imminent to fix everything, all it does is spread, quietly and efficiently, where and when it can, taking credit for other people who let their guard down. to locate more throats and noses to infect.
The coronavirus discovered many throats to colonize in the White House. At least 12 other people who attended a rite in the rose garden for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett on September 26, or other indoor occasions related to her, now tested positive, the president added. and the first lady, two Republican senators, the president of the University of Notre Dame, former assistant Kellyanne Conway and press secretary Kay McEnany. Many others in Trump’s orbit who are not known to have attended the Rose Garden event, adding key assistants Hope Hicks and Stephen Miller and Crusader manager Bill Stepien also contracted the virus.
The White House outbreak, which ate the highest levels of the U. S. government, is a widespread occasion with geopolitical shock waves. This has led several of the country’s most sensible army leaders to quarantine and, in the end, can endanger thousands of people, adding staff at the White House and Trump’s Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey and their families. And it’s a microcosmic of pandemic management by the Trump administration from the beginning: from the beginning, it has focused on quick solutions rather than un glamorous provocative measures like masks, social estbankment and touch tracking.
Even now, the White House aims to move on. “The president gives confidence and resistance and shows other Americans that we won’t have to live in fear, that we’ll have to reopen safely and go back to school, we’re going back to work, going back to church, because doing it in a different way would be un-American,” Undersecretary of The Press Brian Morgenstern said on October 6.
Trump announced on Twitter that he tested positive for the virus shortly after midnight on Friday, October 2, hours after Jennifer Jacobs of Bloomberg News announced that Hicks, one of his closest aides, had tested positive. He spent three days in the hospital, before returning to the White House on Monday night. The precise gravity of his condition is unclear. But doctors were concerned enough to administer an experimental antibody cocktail from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. , and then, when their oxygen point in the blood dropped for a moment, they began taking a steroid remedy regularly reserved for severe Cases of Covid. he hasn’t left the woods yet; the disease can take a severe turn 7 to 10 days after the onset of symptoms. On October 7, Trump had been symptom-free for more than 24 hours, his doctor said.
Given the number of busy occasions the president attended the week he became ill, adding rallies in two states and a fundraiser in a third, as well as unmasked hours of preparation for his September 29 debate with Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, that’s not the case. transparent how or when the virus spread to the White House. Array and it would probably never be the case. What is transparent is that the White House has for months ignored the fundamental public aptitude precautions recommended through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, such as restricting giant meetings, dressing up as a mask, and practicing social estating.
At the Rose Garden event, the ranks were full, other people hugged and planted their hands, and few wearing masks, but it wasn’t unusual: this summer, Trump held a rally at a Tulsa stadium and gave a lecture in front of 2,500 other people. people in the south garden of the White House. As their re-election crusade grew, de facto political rallies have become outdoor rallies, which temporarily became indoor rallies. They all included largely un masked and crowded Trump supporters. “Every time you make contact with each other, they increase your chances of getting swollen,” says Kate Grabowski, epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University. Trump would probably have been lucky he hadn’t swollen himself before, he said.
Instead of taking social distance, the White House relied on the generation to repel the virus. His main line of defense was a quick check of Abbott Laboratories. But checks like these are useful for detecting cases early so that others can isolate themselves. It has never been attempted to be the only guarantee that opposes Covid and could have given a false sense of security. While some White House staff members were dressed in a mask at the beginning of the pandemic, the maximum stopped in the weeks after the end of their normal routine. briefings on the coronavirus through the president. “There are many vital classes to learn from this, and one of them is that the controls themselves are not enough to prevent the virus from entering,” says Tom Frieden, former director of the CDC.
This is because patients become contagious before symptoms spread and immediate check-ups do not stumble in all of those early cases until it is too late. If a single patient with a false negative result slips, a super-dispatch situation may temporarily occur. Most unlikely is to check enough “to stumble upon all cases before they become contagious,” says Graham Snyder, medical director of infection provocation and hospital epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. “That’s why masking and estgnation are so important. “
The use of evidence only in the White House is emblematic of the miraculous technique the president has adopted since the start of the pandemic: in January, Trump promised that he could prevent the virus from entering the United States by restricting the arrival of passengers from China. When it didn’t work and the deaths began to go off, he defended hydroxychloroquine, an ancient antimalarial drug that contained little knowledge, apparently could help covid oppose it. authorization after the evidence showed that it does not work and can even cause central rhythm problems.
In tweets, the president defied the rules to reopen his own working group on coronavirus in the White House, urging states to speed up the process. And after clinical evidence solved that the mask can prevent him from spreading, Trump has not yet followed them. He didn’t use one in public until July 11 and has only done it sporadically since. In the first presidential debate, two days before his positive test, his circle of relatives did not wear a mask while sitting inside the reception room, and Trump mocked Biden for dressing up in “the biggest mask he’s ever seen. “
According to public fitness experts, inconsistency and magical thinking in the most sensible are some of the main reasons the United States has never mastered the pandemic. “One day it’s like a miracle, it’s going to go away,” Trump said of the virus in February. There is no national mask requirement or testing strategy, which leaves state governments to establish their own policies as they struggled to compete for everything from non-public protective devices to diagnostics. Large gatherings continued, largely sowing the pathogen.
Despite the group’s expansion inside, the White House has no plans to stick to the Rose Garden ceremony exhibits. (A management official says that Coney Barrett’s occasion took place too long ago for this, and that it would be the duty of the local fitness authority anyway, however, that the White House is tracking the touches of those who tested positive or have symptoms in place This is consistent with the increased indifference for intensifying tracking of the Array touch that failed in the United States due to delayed control weakened public aptitude and a wide lack of support.
Additional cash reserved through the CDC’s Touch Testing and Tracking Congress was delayed or redirected to other priorities. Instead, Trump is focusing on accelerating the progression of promising drugs and vaccines, at the expense of other measures that can simply slow down transmission. While Congress has spent about $10 billion on Operation Warp Speed, the administration has a higher budget for this vaccine-focused program at $18 billion, Bloomberg News reported in September. Some $6 billion has been transferred from the National Strategic Reserve, a component of an allocation to fill the stocks of medical protective equipment, fans and test supplies, all of which have experienced shortages this year. Management also allocated $700 million in CDC investment to Warp Speed.
A Warp Speed-funded drug is trump’s Regeneron antibody cocktail. Anthony Fauci, the government’s leading doctor of infectious diseases, considers him and the anti-Covid antibodies developed at Eli Lilly
Then there are the vaccines. Clearly, they are taking position at an unprecedented rate, with immunizations from Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson.
Even if they were ready, vaccines would not eliminate the virus. Supplies may be limited at first and authorization will likely be limited to a small organization of fitness personnel and other high-risk individuals. Vaccines will take months to succeed. In the general public, they would possibly only be partially effective and some others would possibly refuse to take them, notes William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University. This means, he says, that some social distance will probably be needed even after a vaccine is available.
There is no quick solution for taming the coronavirus, only hard paints that are difficult to implement fundamental interventions, from dressing in a mask to tracking contacts, on a giant scale. So far, the virus has killed more than 210,000 Americans, six times more than in road injuries, and inflamed more than 7. 5 million. As the weather cools and sends others inside, Covid is back on track. Thirty-four states have more cases than a month ago, and hot spots like Wisconsin and the Dakotas are reaching new heights “It’s mind-blowing to me, when we have the ability to spread the infection, we don’t have it,” says Leana Wen, professor of public aptitude at George Washington University and former Baltimore Health Commissioner.
President Trump downplayed the virus while hospitalized at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. “Don’t be afraid of Covid, ” he tweeted. That night, in front of the television cameras after his return to the White House, he triumphantly got rid of his mask, but the SARS-CoV-2 is still there, in a position to infect new patients at any time. established itself around the world and is established in the long run. Far from being a swift war, the war against the virus will take position for many months, if not years, to come. — With John Tozzi and Josh Wingrove Read More: Tracking the White House Covid-19 Cluster Scale