WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump appears to be living in a truth of exchange related to the COVID-19 threat.
Over the weekend, he clung to the misconception that the virus will “disappear,” even when his most sensitive clinical experts and Republican allies put it bluntly.
Trump also continued to falsely insist that anyone seeking a coronavirus check received one, made the thoughtless suggestion that the virus is low when infections succeed at new daily heights, and made false accusations opposed to the country’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
The statements came here in a week of distorted truth. Trump has continually referred to china’s “ban” that was not the case and issued a scattered indictment opposed to Democratic presidential rival Joe Biden.
A look at their rhetoric and how they compare to the facts:
TRUMP vs. TRUMP FAUCI
TRUMP: “Dr. Fauci said at first, “It will pass. Don’t worry about it. Happen. “He was wrong.” – interview broadcast on “Fox News Sunday”.
FACTS: Trump exaggerates it. While Fauci said in January and February that Americans did not have to panic about viral risk at the time, he also said that the scenario was “evolving” and that public fitness officials were taking the risk seriously.
“Right now, the threat is still low, however, that can change, as I’ve said many times,” Fauci told NBC on February 29. He admitted that if there were instances of expansion of the expanding network, it could only be a “major epidemic.”
“When you start to see the spread of the network, it can replace it and force you to be much more attentive to doing things that would protect you from the spread,” Fauci said.
Fauci claimed the virus would “pass” or disappear.
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TRUMP: “Dr. Fauci told me not to ban China, it would be a big mistake. I did it over and above his recommendation.” — Fox interview.
FACTS: That’s incorrect. Although Fauci expressed some initial reservations about restrictions in China, it supported the resolution at the time it was made.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, who at the time was coordinator of the White House Coronavirus Task Force and announced the restrictions, said Trump took the resolution last January after accepting the “uniform advice of public physical fitness career leaders” here at HHS. Array »
While the World Health Organization pleaded for it to oppose the overuse of restrictions, Azar told reporters in February that fitness officials in its branch had made a “thoughtful recommendation, which the president and I have adopted” in an effort to curb the spread of the virus.
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TRUMP: “Eventually I will be. You know I said, “This is happening to happen.” I’ll say it again. It will disappear and I am Array” – Interview with Fox.
TRUMP: “We’ll put out the flames. … It’s going to be under control.” — Fox interview.
FACTS: “The virus is passing to disappear,” according to Fauci.
The number of instances shown in the United States according to the day has increased over the following month, reaching more than 70,000 last week, according to a Johns Hopkins University count. This is even more consistent than the country was inconsistent from mid-April to early May, when deaths rose sharply.
Fauci has warned that the increase across the South and West “puts the entire country at risk” and that new infections could reach 100,000 a day if people don’t start listening to guidance from public health authorities to wear a mask and practice social distancing.
Arizona, California, Florida and Texas have recently been forced to shut down bars and businesses as virus cases surge. The U.S. currently has more than 3.7 million known cases and many more undetected.
In February, Trump said the coronavirus instances were going “way down, up,” and told Fox Business that everything would be fine because “in April, supposedly, it dies in warmer weather.”
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, who visited a Kentucky hospital Wednesday, said some of the initial predictions were too optimistic. “The Franks communicate here that everyone wants to understand: this is not happening to happen,” he said.
Fauci says there will “certainly” be coronavirus infections in autumn and winter.
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PETER NAVARRO, White House Industry Advisor: “When Fauci told the White House CrownVirus Working Group that there was only anecdotal evidence of hydroxychloroquine to fight the virus, I confronted it with clinical studies that offer evidence of protection and efficacy. A recent Detroit test The hospital showed 50% relief in the mortality rate when the drug is used for early treatment. Editorial published Wednesday on USA Today.
FACTS: Navarro chooses a widely criticized examination as imperfect and ignores several studies that seem to indicate that hydroxychloroquine helps.
Numerous rigorous tests of hydroxychloroquine, one from Britain and another conducted through the National Institutes of Health, have concluded that the antimalarial drug is useless in the treatment of patients hospitalized with coronavirus. Fauci heads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in NIH.
The Food and Drug Administration also warned that the drug is only used for coronavirus in hospitals and studies due to the threat of severe central rhythm disorders and other protective problems.
The Henry Ford Health System review to which Navarro referred was an observational look at the evolution of patients. This was not a rigorous check in which similar patients are randomly assigned to get the drug or not, and where each organization compares compared to how they did it.
In the study, some others with central disorders or certain diseases did not get medication, which can cause central rhythm disorders, so those patients were primarily others in the organization with which they were compared. The researchers reported that they had statistically adjusted some differences, however, the many variables make it difficult to draw definitive conclusions.
Some patients have also gained other remedies, such as steroids and remdesivir, an antiviral drug, that obscures any ability to know if hydroxychloroquine helped.
The White House said Navarro was not allowed to challenge Fauci with the publisher and that he had not. But their arguments largely reflect what Trump and others in the White House have made themselves.
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MORE ON THE VIRUS THREAT
TRUMP, about what happened after becoming China restricted: “Nancy Pelosi danced on the streets of Chinatown in San Francisco a month later, and even later, and others too.” – Rose Garden comments on Tuesday.
FACTS: No, it wasn’t. This is Trump’s common and fanciful account of San Francisco’s Chinatown President on February 24. That day, she ran the department store and wandered the streets to counter the hostility that other people in the community were encountering because of a virus emanating from China.
That day, Pelosi said the public deserves to be alert to the virus, however, the city took precautions and “we deserve to come to Chinatown.” Local television news followed his visit. She wasn’t seen dancing and didn’t call a “street fair,” as Trump said. Community spread of coronavirus had not yet been reported.
As FactCheck.org noted, the same day Pelosi visited Chinatown, Trump tweeted: “The coronavirus is far below in the United States. We are in contact with everyone and all countries involved. The CDC and World Health (Organization) worked hard and very smart. The inventory market is starting to look very smart! CDC is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Two days later, Trump said only 15 other people in the United States were inflamed and that number would fall “near zero.” Instead, the numbers exploded. More than 3.6 million Americans had COVID-19.
Trump accused Pelosi of being “responsible for many deaths” due to the scale in Chinatown. He denied duty for one of the deaths that ravaged the country because he minimized the threat, pushed the reopening and refused to take the mask seriously.
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TESTING
TRUMP: “We passed out in the parking lot and everything, everyone takes a test.” – Interview with Fox.
FACTS: He repeats the misconception that whoever needs a COVID-19 check can get one.
Americans face long queues at checkpoints. People are disqualified if they show no symptoms and, if verified, are rarely forced to expect the effects for several days.
Julie Khani, president of the American Clinical Laboratory Association, which represents LabCorp, Quest Diagnostics and other labs, has made clear that “the anticipated demand for COVID-19 testing over the coming weeks will likely exceed members’ testing capacities.” This past week the group encouraged members to give priority to “those most in need, especially hospitalized and symptomatic patients.”
Many governors and local officials say they meet the lawsuit.
“The tests have been everywhere,” Utah Republican Gov. Gary Herbert said.
Around Seattle, for example, a new wave of patients is in the emergency room, Nurse Mike Hastings.
“What’s frustrating for me is when a patient goes to the emergency branch and has no coVID symptoms, but he feels he wants those checks,” said Hastings, president of the Emergency Nurses Association. “Sometimes we can’t verify them because we don’t have enough verification equipment, so we only verify a secure patient organization.”
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TRUMP: “The cases are on the rise because we have the evidence all over the world and we have the maximum evidence.” – Interview with Fox.
FACTS: Wrong to say that infections are superior only because diagnostic tests in the United States have increased. Trump’s senior physical fitness officials have abolished that line of thought. Infections build up because other people are more inflamed than they were when other people’s maximum was huddled.
Accumulation in contriyetes to higher numbers, however, there is more. In fact, the tests have revealed a trend of concern: the percentage of tests that test positive for the virus is spreading almost across the country.
It is a transparent demonstration that the disease is spreading and that the U.S. screening formula. It’s working.
“A high rate of positive testing indicates that a government is testing only the medical care of the sickest patients and is not projecting a large enough network,” says the Coronavirus Resource Center at Johns Hopkins University, a number one source of up-to-date data on the pandemic.
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TRUMP: “No country has done what we have done in terms of testing. We are the envy of the world. They call and say that the maximum task anyone has done is our test work, because very soon we will. 50 million tests. You take a look at other countries; they don’t even do tests. Matrix… They don’t have extensive testing areas, and we do.
FACTS: Testing in the United States is the envy of the world, and it’s not the only country that conducts mass testing either.
The United States is consistent with capital control behind other countries that have done a much greater task to control their epidemics. The state, local, and federal government warns of the consequences of check bottlenecks, adding checks that become unnecessary because the effects come too late.
China used batch checks, combined samples and verified them together as a component of a recent crusade to verify Wuhan’s 11 million residents. This is a technique that, according to major U.S. fitness officials, can be used to bring the evaluation to life in the United States, is not transparent when bulk checks can be performed for large-scale verification at U.S. schools and businesses.
“We are far from being able to involve this virus with the amount of tests we have done lately,” said Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency doctor and professor of public aptitude at George Washington University, who was Baltimore’s health commissioner.
Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said the effects in some parts of the United States take up to a week, which is “too long.”
“It tests to find out who is using the virus and then temporarily isolates them from spreading,” he said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And it’s very difficult to make paints when there’s a long integrated delay.”
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MORTALITY RATE
TRUMP: “I have one of the lowest mortality rates in the world.” – Interview with Fox.
CHRIS WALLACE, host of “Fox News Sunday”: “That’s true, sir.”
TRUMP: “Number one, low mortality rate.” – Interview with Fox.
THE FACTS: Trump’s claim is wholly unsupported.
An exact mortality rate is unlikely to be known. Each country evaluates and counts others differently, and some are unreliable for reporting cases. Without knowing the actual amount of other people infected, it is highly unlikely that proportion of them will die.
However, these calculations provide a reliable measure of actual mortality rates due to diversification in testing and reporting, and the Johns Hopkins count is meant to be such a measure.
The only way to know how many cases have not been counted and what percentage of inflamed people have died from the disease is to do some other type of comprehensive test, in other people’s blood, to determine how many people have immunity. formula antibodies opposite the virus. Matrix In general, this is only done in safe places.
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TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS
TRUMP: “If you remember, I did the European Union from the beginning.” – Interview with Fox.
FACTS: U.S. fitness officials Actually that Trump has been slow to limit travel from parts of Europe.
While Trump imposed restrictions on China in late January, he did not stand firm with many European countries until mid-March. These delayed alerts and limited testing have contributed to the buildup in the number of cases in the United States as of Last February, according to Dr. Anne Schuchat, Head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“Obviously we didn’t recognize all the imports that were happening,” Schuchat told The Associated Press in May.
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TRUMP: “We would have killed thousands more people if we let it come from China heavily inflamed. But we stopped him. We banned in January. Array… By closing, we have stored millions, if not millions of lives. Notes on the rose garden
FACTS: You have not banned China. He limited it. Dozens of countries have taken similar measures to control from hot spots before or around the same time as the United States.
U.S. restrictions that came into effect on February 2 continued to allow the United States from the Chinese territories of Hong Kong and Macau for the past five months. The Associated Press reported that more than 8,000 Chinese and foreign citizens based in those territories entered the United States in the first 3 months after the imposition of restrictions.
In addition, more than 27,000 Americans returned from mainland China in the first month after the restrictions took effect. The United States has lost track of more than 1,600 of them who were destined to be monitored for exposure to the virus.
There is little doubt that the high cost of COVID-19 would be even higher if the global had not been limited on a global scale. But Trump does not have a clinical basis to announce that his action alone has stored “millions” or even “hundreds of thousands” of lives, as he put it.
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TRUMP, on Biden: “He opposed my strict ban on Chinese citizens to prevent the spread of the Chinese virus. He completely opposed it.” Xenophobic, ” he called me.” Xenophobic.” A month later, he admitted that he was right.” – Rose Garden.
FACTS: No, Biden did not speak out against restrictions in China. He didn’t communicate much about it at the time. In April, his crusade said he supported the restrictions if he was “guided by medical experts.”
Biden said Trump had a history of xenophobia, a comment made on a crusade in Iowa when the restrictions were announced. Biden said Trump “scares” foreigners and that the Democrat disputed Trump’s references to the “Chinese virus” as an example. He didn’t face the footsteps of the trip.
Trump claimed that Biden learned that he was right, after all, to limit from China and that he had written him a “letter of apology.” That didn’t happen either.
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Police
TRUMP: “Biden to dissolve the police.” – Interview with Fox.
FACTS: To be clear, Biden did not sign in to the call of protesters who demanded “dispel the police” after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. He proposed more cash for the police, a topic to improve his practices.
“I’m not in favor of cutting back on police funds,” Biden said last month in an interview with CBS. But he said he would link federal aid to police based on whether they “meet certain fundamental criteria of decency, honorability, and can indeed demonstrate that they can protect the community, everyone in the community.”
Biden’s criminal justice program, launched long before he has become the alleged Democratic presidential candidate, proposes more federal money to “training to save tragic and unjustifiable deaths” and hire more officials to make departments reflect the populations racially and ethnically. Serve.
Specifically, he’s asking for a $300 million injection into federal grant systems for monitoring the existing network.
That’s more effective for the police, for the police.
Biden also wants the federal government to spend more on education, social services and struggling areas of cities and rural America, to address root causes of crime.
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Economy
TRUMP: “I built the greatest economy ever built anywhere in the world; not only of this country, anywhere in the world, until we got hit with the China virus.” — Fox interview.
FACTS: Not true. The economy was healthy at the time, but it was not the most productive in U.S. history.
Economic gains have largely followed an expansion that began more than a decade ago under President Barack Obama. And while publishing the right numbers of jobs and inventory to the market, Trump has never achieved the economic expansion rates he promised for the 2016 campaign. The U.S. economy was not the most productive in history when it began.
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Military
TRUMP: “I presented the biggest pay increases in our army history.” – Interview with Fox.
FACTS: Trump boasts about the length of the military’s wage increases under his administration, however, there is nothing ordinary about them.
Several increases over the past decade have been higher than Trump members get: 3.1% this year, 2.6% last year, 2.4% in 2018 and 2.1% in 2017.
Increases in 2008, 2009 and 2010, for example, all 3.4% or more.
Wage increases have declined after that because of the budget limits imposed by Congress. Trump and Congress broke a trend that began in 2011 with pay raises ranging from 1% to 2%.
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AP Chief Medical Writer Marilynn Marchione in Milwaukee and Associated Press writer Will Weissert in Washington contributed to this report.
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