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JUST POSTED: A Readers Guide to the "Red Dawn" Emails. These are now vital historical documents. Primary source documents that researchers will turn to for decades to come. Read them yourself now. nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/…
The emails are sidebar to our in-depth examination of the warnings given to @realDonaldTrump and the White House about the virus and the failure to heed them as weeks passed. @maggieNYT @SangerNYT @MarkMazzettiNYT @julianbarnes Please read it. nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/…
Infectious disease doctor--& one time adviser to Presidents Bush & Obama-regarding President Trump's Covid actions in mid March: “It’s like ignoring the smoke detector and waiting for your whole house to be on fire before you call the fire department.” nyti.ms/2xcZBoL
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The intense political gaming of a deadly national heath disaster has now intensified to a new level. And it will only get worse from here.
Trump knows exactly what he is doing. It has probably been poll tested.
Click to read NYT coverage of the latest move by President Trump nytimes.com/2020/04/17/us/…
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Seems like Trump is setting up a dynamic where he can complain governors (and potential political points by claiming) are not moving fast enough to "reopen" while Trump does not himself have to deal with the consequences of death and disease if governors open too soon.
Pressure on certain governors to "reopen" is quickly going to become intense, and political-with questions among critics about just how serious the threat is for additional illnesses. Federal leadership would again be helpful to provide governors cover to make responsible choices
Unfortunately for NY and other locations with highest number of infections--according to infectious disease doctors I have spoken with--hardest hit places are going to take the longest time to emerge, as they have higher % of infected people. Have to wait until numbers come down.
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1) Nothing President Trump today undermines even a single fact in the stories we published over the weekend. The truth remains that the nation's top health advisers concluded as of Feb. 14 that the US needed to use targeted containment efforts to slow the virus spread.....
2) Trump then waited until March 16 to announce his support for these measures.... whitehouse.gov/articles/15-da…
3) Any pandemic expert or epidemiologist can tell you, once you have community spread--documented either with confirmed infections or the first death--you must move immediately to implement these so called Non Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPI), such as school/business closures.
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