Trump’s Easter Restart Undone by His Experts’ Dire Virus Models
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Via: krishna • 4 years ago • 23 commentsBy: By Justin Sink, Jennifer Jacobs, and Jordan Fabian
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As President Donald Trump’s coronavirus response team gathered at the White House Sunday to discuss re-opening the U.S. for business by Easter, his top health experts painted a troubling picture of what lay ahead.
Deborah Birx, an immunologist picked by Vice President Mike Pence to weigh the ailment’s impact, cautioned that the U.S. outbreak was still two weeks away from its peak. Her reading of the data also led her to an even more worrisome conclusion: that the nation was likely tens of thousands of hospital beds short of the anticipated need.
The conversation moved into the Oval Office, where aides presented Trump with their harrowing findings, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Birx and her longtime mentor, Anthony Fauci, told the president that the virus could kill 100,000 to 200,000 Americans and infect millions.
The fresh information -- and unanimity among Trump’s top public-health advisers -- set the stage for a remarkable reversal on Sunday by the president, who had said a week earlier that he wanted to relax by Easter, April 12, the strictest social-distancing rules that were smothering the U.S. economy.
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The fresh information -- and unanimity among Trump’s top public-health advisers -- set the stage for a remarkable reversal on Sunday by the president, who had said a week earlier that he wanted to relax by Easter, April 12, the strictest social-distancing rules that were smothering the U.S. economy.
Birx’s data, which had converged by the weekend with projections by the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, showed Trump’s approach could be disastrous.
Cities such as Detroit, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and Miami could soon see a spike in hospitalizations mirroring the situation in New York.
Surgeon General Jerome Adams told the president that the country needed more time to mitigate the spread and test the ill.
Trump weighed messages from top Senate Republicans, who spent days privately warning the president and other White House officials that re-opening the country could cause more deaths and trigger a political backlash, according to a person familiar with the discussions.
Dead business environment or scores of dead
voterscitizens, what's a world leader to do? A microbe. An 'f-ing' microbe which does not respond well to instructions, directions, or hyperbolic statements. When Trump met Coronovirus: Sparks! Bailouts! More Sparks! More recovery checks!What a non-story. Anyone with any sense wants this to be over sooner rather than later. Even though it may take 6 months or a year or more, no one starts out ordering to people to stay at home for that long. Whether it’s the federal government or the states, or cities, all of these orders started out as a matter of weeks. Then they get extended.
Is it so hard to come to grips with the fact that it is actually Trump making the final decisions, and they’re the right ones? Trump talks about what he would like to see. Talks to experts. Makes decisions. So far, those decisions all appear to be pretty good ones. Trying to find something significant in the differences between what he says he wants and what he ends up doing is just dumb. Everyone is going through that exact same process.
OK, maybe except for the people who can only sit around thinking up ways to be angry at Trump, even in the midst of a historically serious health crisis. Those people! smh
TDS headache #969
It is just so UNinteresting how reasonable conservatives can become during what they love to refer to as the "shit-storms" of life when their guy is 'Captain.' Otherwise, it's Obama can not tie together this or Obama, he said that.
Well, for all the hemming and hawing we are about to receive from Trump supporters, to look at the "Captain" and his staff cutting bailouts, handouts, and 'health and wellness' checks, in the tune of trillions, the forgetful republican elephant can barely recognize itself for its disgusting treatment of the former leader who brilliantly dealt with the national headaches handed his administration with the republicans and conservatives throwing political pebbles, stones, and yes boulders at his head. Oh, and Trump was nag to Obama too!
You’re rambling, and other situations and other presidents are not really the topic. Unless you’re arguing that wrong is always wrong, in which case I agree.
Riiiight. Not riiiight! You successfully managed to say nothing instructive to the "angry at Trump" -ers throughout the totality of a one-liner. President Trump is in the midst of a medical "shit-storm" and he wants desperately to blotch it up, to punish people - because the coronavirus does not care about him punishing it, or put lipstick on this ugly microbe and the microbe keeps wiping that facade off!