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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 efforts for a minimalist plan.
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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 rejected his own administration’s proclinical findings about clients of a widely available coronavirus vaccine and the effectiveness of the mask in reducing the spread of the virus as the death toll in the United States approached. to 200,000.
In a remarkable demonstration, even for him, Trump publicly slapped Dr. Robert R. Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while the president promised that a vaccine could be available in a few weeks and pass. “immediately” to the general public, while diminishing the usefulness of dressing in masks despite evidence to the contrary.
The president’s comments put him at odds with the C. D. C. , the world’s 14th public fitness agency, a pandemic that he said was “turning the corner” to finish. Trump went mad a few hours after Dr. Redfield told a Senate committee that a vaccine would not be available until midway through next year.
“I think he made a mistake in saying that,” Trump told reporters. “It’s just information. ” A vaccine would pass “immediately to the general public,” the president insisted, and “in no way will it be as late as the doctor said. “
Trump also said that Dr. Redfield had “made a mistake” in telling senators that masks were so critical in the fight against coronavirus disease, Covid-19, that they could be even more than a vaccine. like the vaccine,” Trump said.
The president has continually stated that a vaccine may be available before Election Day on November 3, a timetable that top 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 completed. verified, for protection and efficiency. Nine pharmaceutical corporations are committed to “supporting science” and not announcing any products that have not resisted clinical scrutiny.
Early Wednesday, Joseph R. Biden Jr. , the Democratic presidential candidate, accused the president of rushing for a vaccine for electoral purposes.
“Let me be clear: I accept as true with vaccines,” Mr. Biden. “I accept as true with scientists. But I do not accept as true with Donald Trump, and right now, other Americans can’t either. ” “
Michael R. Caputo, the firm’s leading spokesperson overseeing America’s reaction to coronavirus, 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 Caputo 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 his staff and Alex M. Azar II, the head of the branch, 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.
Appearing before a Senate committee on fitness on Wednesday, Dr. Robert R. REDfield, director of the CDC, said Redfield’s comments about scientists who commit a “sedition” were offensive “false accusations” to his agency’s career managers. .
“CDC is made up of thousands of committed and highly professional men and women,” Dr. Redfield said. “It’s the world’s first public fitness company. “
Mr. Caputo and a colleague encouraged the CDC to retain and edit apolitical health bulletins, called Weekly Morbidity and Mortality Reports, to present the administration’s reaction to the pandemic in a clearer way.
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