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Freeloading Rusty

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Well shit eh, Trump and Navarro lying to the public about when they knew the pandemic was coming...
Coronavirus: Peter Navarro warned of coronavirus in January, February

Trump was warned about pandemic in January – reports
Coronavirus US live: Trump reportedly knew pandemic was likely in January


The memos, first reported by the New York Times and Axios, were written by Navarro on 29 January and 23 February. The first memo, composed on the day Trump set up a White House coronavirus task force, gave a worst-case scenario of the virus killing more than half a million Americans.

According to the Times, it said: “The lack of immune protection or an existing cure or vaccine would leave Americans defenseless in the case of a full-blown coronavirus outbreak on US soil. This lack of protection elevates the risk of the coronavirus evolving into a full-blown pandemic, imperiling the lives of millions of Americans.”

The second memo went even further, predicting that a Covid-19 pandemic, left unchecked, could kill 1.2m Americans and infect as many as 100m.

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India's Modi Set to Supply Hydroxychloroquine to U.S. After Trump Threatens 'Retaliation'
Narendra Modi appears to have bowed to President Donald Trump's demands that he lift a ban on the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine, which Trump has touted as a treatment option for COVID-19 coronavirus patients despite concern among medical experts.

India's external affairs ministry announced Tuesday that the country will license hydroxychloroquine "in appropriate quantities to all our neighbouring countries who are dependent on our capabilities," plus some nations "particularly badly affected" by the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Hindustan Times.




 
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UK rejects Trump's offer to help with Boris Johnson's coronavirus treatment
  • UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's spokesman has rejected President Donald Trump's offer to help with Johnson's COVID-19 treatment.
  • Trump on Monday offered to put Johnson's doctors in touch with unnamed companies working on coronavirus treatments.
  • The prime minister's spokesman rejected the offer on Tuesday.
  • "We're confident the prime minister is receiving the best possible care from the National Health Service," he said. "Any treatment he receives is a matter for his doctors."
 

Freeloading Rusty

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Fact check: Trump falsely claims he 'inherited' the faulty coronavirus test. It was developed this year
In March, Trump initially made a debatable claim that he had inherited a flawed testing "system." By the final days of March and the first days of April, however, he was making a demonstrably inaccurate claim about inheriting the actual tests.
  • "We inherited a broken test -- the whole thing was broken," Trump said on the Fox News morning show "Fox and Friends" on March 30.
  • "And remember this: We inherited -- the word is we inherited bad tests. We really inherited bad tests. These are horrible tests. And it was broken. It was all broken. And we fixed it," Trump said at the White House briefing on April 1.
  • "The original test -- the ones we inherited, Jim, as an example, they were -- they were broken. They were obsolete. They were not good tests. And that's what we got stuck with," he said at the April 3 briefing.
  • "Initially speaking, the tests were old, obsolete, and not really prepared," he said at the April 6 briefing.
Trump's clear suggestion was that the flawed test had been left to him by President Barack Obama's administration.
Facts First: The faulty initial test for the coronavirus was created during Trump's administration, in early 2020, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since this is a new virus that was first identified this year, the tests couldn't possibly be "old" or "obsolete."
https://www.cnn.com/specials/politics/fact-check-politics
"He is lying. He is lying 100%. He is lying because he is trying to shift blame to others, even if the attempt is totally nonsensical," said Gregg Gonsalves, an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the Yale School of Public Health.

The claim "doesn't make sense because it is false," said Tara Smith, an epidemiology professor at Kent State University. "This a new virus."
Michael Mina, assistant professor of epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, called the claim "absurd" given that "this virus did not exist in the prior administration."

Mina added: "The technology used to test for this virus is technology that is routinely used in clinical microbiology laboratories. It is not faulty."

A flawed CDC test -- in 2020

Sticking to past practice, the CDC created its own test for the coronavirus rather than use the test being distributed by the World Health Organization. The CDC began developing its test in January 2020 and announced on February 5 that it would begin shipping test kits to public health labs around the US.