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This seems inexplicable...WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration is trying to block billions of dollars for states to conduct testing and contact tracing in the upcoming coronavirus relief bill, people involved in the talks said Saturday.The administration is also trying to block billions of dollars that GOP senators want to allocate for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and billions more for the Pentagon and State Department to address the pandemic at home and abroad, the people said.https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/trump-administration-seeks-to-block-money-for-testing-tracing-cdc-in-upcoming-virus-relief-bill/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/uk-may-already-enough-herd-183015155.html
Baseball in the era of COVID. Phillies player hits HR @ Washington. Crew accidentally plays the piped-in cheering intended for the home team.https://apnews.com/e9e671f02d6b81742f06749b7bc1406bWelcome to 2020.
There are no ICU beds available at 49 Florida hospitalshttps://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-07-19-20-intl/h_4568646d74f57c7a13f0215b05bb0054
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.15.20154294v1May suggest why essentially all of the global hot spots that got hit hard in the first wave are all now doing amazingly well.
Dr Birx told President Trump in April that the coronavirus would soon be gone and influenced the administration's push to reopen the economy and lift lockdownhttps://www.businessinsider.com/dr-birx-told-trump-april-coronavirus-was-going-away-nyt-2020-7r Deborah Birx, the chief medical officer on the White House coronavirus task force, told the Trump administration in April that it was not a long term problem for the US, reported The New York Times.
That was in that long, outstanding NYT piece that another Scooper posted. I came out of it thinking that Birx will be a big-time scapegoat to be sacrificed.While Fauci was the "bad cop," Birx was saying a lot of stuff the WH occupant desperately wanted to hear ... though even she had to draw the line when the discussion of injecting disinfectant was brought up.
First time my wife saw her at one of the daily “briefings”, she just said” she’s a poser, a trump wannabe”. I’ve seen nothing to convince me otherwise. She loves the attention and isn’t bright enough to know that she will be a scapegoat-as you said.
I think the article was a little more nuanced. It seemed that her too rosy projections were based on assuming people would continue to "do the right thing" and continue to socially distance and that the U.S. would re-open based on scientific benchmarks. In hindsight those were clearly a bad assumptions, but as I shared here a while back, a highly-respected epidemiologist that I work with made the same assumptions.I don't think this exonerates her, just that it was not quite as straight a line. I have no doubt she fell into the same strange, disastrous downward spiral that so many seem to when they get captured in the Trump orbit.
Good lord. You wonder why people write you off as totally biased and lacking objectivity. Birx has made mistakes in reporting to an irrational and impetuous leader, sure. But now she’s a poser wannabe lacking in intellect and always has been? Despite a long and distinguished medical career filled with expertise and appointments by Obama? Ok got it
There is a reason she is now the head of the task force and why Fauci is not even allowed to appear on TV. She gave her allegiance to Trump. Fauci didn’t. Her job is to guide this country in fighting Covid. If she gave Trump the advice that she is reported to have given, she was derelict in her duty, dare I say, a poser.What is it that Birx has done that makes you defend her? Instead of bowing before trump, shouldn’t she be out front fighting for masks? Shouldn’t she be fighting for the CDC rules for school openings?
Four months ago, crickets. And follow the science, including Dr Birx. Now? She not really a scientist, doncha’ know? Me and the wife had her pegged from the jump.Sure.
I can't speak for others on here, but if you want to go back and look, about 3-months ago, I indicted I was concerned about Birx, as she was proving to be a politician and disregarding the science for more political power. I know the turning point for me being sure of this was the press conference involving "heat" killing the virus, and a suggestion of injecting bleach. The science there was terrible, and she trumped up the results as game changers.
Agreed. Fauci has earned his reputation through decades of experience and performance, while Birx came into this as a relative unknown. She probably had a good pedigree to get to her current position, but she seemed to fall off the wagon around the time Fauci was warning that we were reopening too soon and she just smiled along when POTUS said something absurd. Now we know that behind the scenes, she was actively enabling POTUS with her overly optimistic expectations.