At an NBC town hall last week the President of the United States falsely claimed that U.S. Center for Disease Control found that 85% of people who wear masks catch Covid-19 https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/16/politics/fact-check-trump-cdc-masks-85-percent/index.html
Dr. Scott Atlas, who joined the White House in August as a science adviser, told Americans this weekend that masks don’t work, prompting Twitter to take down his misinformation. Atlas, the former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center and a fellow at Stanford’s conservative Hoover Institution, has no expertise in public health or infectious diseases. The tweet, which comes as coronavirus cases spike across the US, also linked to an article in the American Institute for Economic Research that argues against the effectiveness of masks, among other things. https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/17/politics/scott-atlas-face-masks-coronavirus/index.html
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar is urging Americans to stick with safeguards against COVID-19 such as mask-wearing even as President Donald Trump continues to shun the practice and infections spike higher in several parts of the U.S. https://www.fox6now.com/news/hhs-secretary-alex-azar-urges-americans-to-keep-masking-up
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, suggested in an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday, that President Donald Trump is reluctant to cover his face in public amid the coronavirus pandemic because he “equates wearing a mask with weakness.” https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/fauci-trump-wearing-mask-weakness-430114
Researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation recently estimated that if 95% of Americans wore masks, it could save up to 100,000 lives from COVID-19 by January 1st. https://www.newsweek.com/if-95-percent-americans-wear-masks-100000-lives-can-saved-january-1-ihme-report-1534433
A frustrated and at times foul-mouthed President Donald Trump claimed on a campaign call that people are tired of hearing about the deadly pandemic which has killed more than 215,000 Americans and trashed Dr. Anthony Fauci as a “disaster” who has been around for “500 years.”
Referring to Fauci and other health officials as “idiots,” Trump declared the country ready to move on from the health disaster, even as cases are again spiking and medical experts warn the worst may be yet to come. https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/19/politics/donald-trump-anthony-fauci-coronavirus/index.html
Trump’s slam against Fauci came the morning after the National Institutes of Health official’s interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes aired. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-unloads-on-anthony-fauci-calling-him-a-disaster-and-an-idiot-over-coronavirus
“…Fauci is a disaster. If I listened to him, we’d have 500,000 deaths,” Trump said, before later adding—baselessly—that it would be 700,000 or 800,000.
“If there’s a reporter on, you can have it just the way I said it, I couldn’t care less,” Trump added.
At an NBC town hall last week the President of the United States falsely claimed that U.S. Center for Disease Control found that 85% of people who wear masks catch Covid-19 https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/16/politics/fact-check-trump-cdc-masks-85-percent/index.html
Dr. Scott Atlas, who joined the White House in August as a science adviser, told Americans this weekend that masks don’t work, prompting Twitter to take down his misinformation. Atlas, the former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center and a fellow at Stanford’s conservative Hoover Institution, has no expertise in public health or infectious diseases. The tweet, which comes as coronavirus cases spike across the US, also linked to an article in the American Institute for Economic Research that argues against the effectiveness of masks, among other things. https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/17/politics/scott-atlas-face-masks-coronavirus/index.html
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar is urging Americans to stick with safeguards against COVID-19 such as mask-wearing even as President Donald Trump continues to shun the practice and infections spike higher in several parts of the U.S. https://www.fox6now.com/news/hhs-secretary-alex-azar-urges-americans-to-keep-masking-up
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, suggested in an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday, that President Donald Trump is reluctant to cover his face in public amid the coronavirus pandemic because he “equates wearing a mask with weakness.” https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/fauci-trump-wearing-mask-weakness-430114
Researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation recently estimated that if 95% of Americans wore masks, it could save up to 100,000 lives from COVID-19 by January 1st. https://www.newsweek.com/if-95-percent-americans-wear-masks-100000-lives-can-saved-january-1-ihme-report-1534433
A frustrated and at times foul-mouthed President Donald Trump claimed on a campaign call that people are tired of hearing about the deadly pandemic which has killed more than 215,000 Americans and trashed Dr. Anthony Fauci as a “disaster” who has been around for “500 years.”
Referring to Fauci and other health officials as “idiots,” Trump declared the country ready to move on from the health disaster, even as cases are again spiking and medical experts warn the worst may be yet to come. https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/19/politics/donald-trump-anthony-fauci-coronavirus/index.html
Trump’s slam against Fauci came the morning after the National Institutes of Health official’s interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes aired. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-unloads-on-anthony-fauci-calling-him-a-disaster-and-an-idiot-over-coronavirus
“…Fauci is a disaster. If I listened to him, we’d have 500,000 deaths,” Trump said, before later adding—baselessly—that it would be 700,000 or 800,000.
“If there’s a reporter on, you can have it just the way I said it, I couldn’t care less,” Trump added.
“Members of the White House coronavirus task force are praising a move by Twitter removing a misleading tweet from top Trump adviser Dr. Scott Atlas that told Americans masks don’t work.
The tweet’s removal was a “relief” among some task force members, Dr. Deborah Birx told friends over the weekend, according to a source with knowledge of the conversation.” https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/19/politics/scott-atlas-deborah-birx-task-force/index.html
“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is criticizing a top White House coronavirus adviser for spreading misinformation about facial coverings, in a potential escalation of the feud between the administration and public health officials within the federal government.
That adviser, Stanford neuroradiologist Dr. Scott Atlas, appears to have taken a statistic from a CDC study wildly out of context to pose an anti-mask argument that has been central to his and President Trump’s approach.” https://news.yahoo.com/cdc-criticizes-white-house-medical-advisers-discredited-mask-claim-171204607.html
“Trump Administration’s Abandonment of Actual Pandemic Response Detailed in New Investigative Report” https://www.complex.com/life/2020/10/trump-administration-abandonment-of-pandemic-response-detailed-new-investigative-report
“Trump’s den of dissent: Inside the White House task force as coronavirus surges” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-den-of-dissent-inside-the-white-house-task-force-as-coronavirus-surges/2020/10/19/7ff8ee6a-0a6e-11eb-859b-f9c27abe638d_story.html
8AM MDT, tomorrow morning, 20th
As mask use increases, the frequency of observed covid-19 symptoms decreases: More masks, less covid-19. Carnegie Mellon University Real-time COVID-19 Indicators https://covidcast.cmu.edu/?sensor=doctor-visits-smoothed_adj_cli&level=county&date=20201018&signalType=value&encoding=color&mode=overview®ion=42003
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