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President Trump has suggested republicans “opt for much higher numbers” in stalled negotiations on the economic recovery plan, undermining his party’s pressure 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 beginning 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: donning a mask, especially when in public, maintaining social distancing, and washing your hands carefully. 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 as far as to say that this Covid mask is safer for me than when I take the Covid vaccine because the immunogenicity can be 70%, and if I don’t get an immune reaction, the vaccine doesn’t pass. to me. This mask will be.
On Wednesday, President Trump rebuked the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, saying Dr. Robert R. Redfield had provided “incorrect information” when he told a Senate panel earlier in the day that a coronavirus vaccine would probably not be widely used. I had before, midway through next year.
“I saw the . . . I called him. I said, “What do you mean by that?”, Trump told reporters at a press conference in the White House. “And I think he just made a mistake.
The president also stated that Dr. Redfield would say that a mask is more effective than a vaccine.
“The mask is not like the vaccine,” the president said, adding, “The mask, perhaps, will help.
“When I called Robert today, I said, “What is the mask?”, Trump said, “I think I answered that question incorrectly. I think I probably would have misunderstood it,” he added.
Dr. Redfield had told senators that even if a vaccine was available now, vaccinating a sufficient number of Americans for widespread immunity could take six to nine months. He calculated that one of them could be available for limited use until the end of the year and for a wider distribution until mid-2021, echoing a schedule for other senior fitness officials, and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, they had used it in the last few weeks.
During the hearing, Dr. Redfield also stated that masks are “the ultimate and tough public aptitude tool we have” to combat the pandemic.
He said that universal use of a mask could end the pandemic in a few months and said: “I can even go as far as to say that this mask is safer to protect me from Covid than when I take a Covid vaccine. ” (Vaccines) they are not one hundred percent effective, whereas masks, if used correctly, do what they are designed to do).
But Trump has continually said his CDC leader was wrong. “I had the impression that he didn’t realize he had said what he had just said,” the president said. Dr. Redfield, Trump replied, “Yes. “
The president has continually stated that a vaccine can also be obtained before Election Day, a timetable that maximum fitness experts are unrealistic, raising the possibility for the Food and Drug Administration to grant emergency approval to a vaccine before it has been fully verified. protection and effectiveness. Nine pharmaceutical corporations are committed to “defending science” and not announcing any products that have not resisted clinical scrutiny. FDA chief Stephen Hahn said last week that the company would include new rules for emergency approval of vaccines “in the near future. “
“We are in a position to pass as soon as the vaccine is launched,” Trump said. When asked how long it could take before each and every American can be vaccinated, he replied, “I think it will be very soon.
Trump once said a town hall-style on Tuesday night 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 leave “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 presentation to 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 government. career, 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.
Senator Patty Murray of Washington, the most sensible Democrat on the fitness panel, said at the hearing that it was “dangerous and unprecedented for other politically appointed individuals to alter, censor, and end up undermining a report to give health care 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 allow political influence to be controlled to modulate that,” he said. “The clinical integrity of the M. M. W. R. se 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 added that Caputo said he was in charge of surveillance. .
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