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President Trump has suggested republicans “opt for much higher numbers” in stalled negotiations on the economic stimulus package, undermining his party’s efforts to push for a minimalist plan.
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The coronavirus is out and is the “number one risk to global security in our world today,” UN Secretary General Guterres said at the start of the General Assembly.
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Today, and even after receiving a vaccine, C. D. C. encourages all Americans to adopt the tough gear we have today – wearing a mask, especially when in public, for social distancing and vigilant handwashing regimen. Be careful with crowds and stay home when you are sick. We will continue to provide Congress and the country with the maximum productive advice on public fitness. We are not going to allow political influence to control that to modulate that. Face Mask – These face masks are the toughest public fitness tool we have. And I will continue to ask all Americans, all other people in our country, to adopt those masks. I said, if we did it for six, eight, 10, 12 weeks, we would have this pandemic under control. These in fact, we have transparent clinical evidence that they work, and they are our top productive defense. I can even go so far as to say that this mask is safer to protect me from Covid than when I take the Covid vaccine because the immunogenicity can be 70%, and if I do not get an immune response, the vaccine is no pass to protect me. This mask will be.
The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave the impression of opposing Trump over the price of the mask to prevent the pandemic, the White House press secretary insisted that the president had only criticized the absurd use of mask.
On Tuesday, at an ABC News in the mayor’s office, the president provided several perspectives on the wear of the mask, praised them, challenging them, teaching about out-of-place use and concluding that “there are other people who don’t think the mask is good. . “
Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, insisted Wednesday that she was only talking about disorders with an out-of-place use, such as when she described the waiters touching their mask and then playing food dishes.
And on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, C. D. C. Director Robert Redfield said at a Senate hearing that masks are “the ultimate and tough public tool we have” to combat the pandemic.
He said universal use of a mask could end pandemic in a few months and said, “I can even go so far as to say that this mask is safer to protect me from Covid than when I take a Covid vaccine. “Vaccines are not one hundred percent effective, while masks, if used correctly, do what they are designed to do.
At some other point in the hearing, Dr. Redfield asked when a coronavirus vaccine could be made for the public, and estimated that it might have one for limited use until the end of the year and for wider distribution. until mid-2021, an estimate echoes what other senior fitness officials have used, adding Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, in the last few weeks.
And even if you had a vaccine now, Dr. Redfield said, it could take six to nine months to vaccinate enough Americans for widespread immunity.
His comments contradicted Trump, who said at the city corridor assembly that a vaccine could be available in “three weeks, four weeks. “
Michael R. Caputo, the cabinet’s leading coronavirus reaction department spokesman, will take a license “for his fitness and the well-being of his family,” the Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday.
Mr. Caputo’s clinical adviser, Dr. Paul Alexander, will leave the department.
The announcement came after an incendiary explosion on Facebook on September 13 and revelations that he and his team had attempted to dilute official reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the pandemic.
Caputo, a long-time loyal to Trump and undersecretary of public affairs at the Department of Health, apologized for his Facebook post for him and Alex M. Azar II, the head of the department, after his comments were made public.
Since being installed at the branch in April through the White House, Caputo, a former Trump Crusade assistant, has worked aggressively to expand a media strategy to address the pandemic, but critics, including some in the administration, have complained that he is selling the president’s political interests than public health.
His speech on Facebook, which was shared with the New York Times, was filled with disturbing predictions of left-wing “attack squads” plotting an armed insurgency after the election and attacks on CDC scientists, who he said had formed a “resistance. “The unit “made the decision to reduce Mr. M’s chances of re-election. Trump. Il accused scientists of “rotten science” and said that “they didn’t take off their tracksuit pants”unless they went to conspire against the president in cafes.
Dr. Robert R. Redfield, director of the CDC, told a Senate panel Wednesday morning that he was “deeply saddened” through Caputo and said his comments about government scientists committing “sedition” were “false accusations” offensive to the race. . officers of your agency.
“CDC is made up of thousands of dedicated and highly professional men and women,” he said. “It’s the world’s first public fitness company. “
Mr. Caputo and a colleague encouraged the CDC to delay and publish CDC health bulletins, called Weekly Morbidity and Mortality Reports, to provide the administration’s reaction to the pandemic in a clearer way.
Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, the highest-ranking Democrat on the fitness panel, said at the hearing that it is “dangerous and unprecedented for policy-appointed Americans to change, censor, and end up undermining a report designed to give families, public fitness professionals, researchers, and fitness service providers what they need the truth.
Dr. Redfield promised that “at no time is the clinical integrity of the M. M. W. R. com. “
“We’re going to let political influence be controlled to modulate that,” he said. “The clinical integrity of M. M. W. R. se has been compromised and will be compromised under my supervision. “
Dr. Redfield also told senators that the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services ordered him to move $ 300 million from his budget for a public relations crusade aimed at raising American morale, a crusade that Caputo added that He said he was in charge of surveillance. .
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