No kind of joke at all - Trump admits and gloats about how he wanted to under test on Coronavirus is dangerous, and par for the course of āI do not take responsibilityā for this Coronavirus.
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Ooooohā¦ wow. And Trump is now officially using the highly offensive ākung fluā openly at his Tulsa Hate Rally
Also a whole lot of his other āgreatest hitsā of racism and bigotry.
Donald Trump calls Covid-19 ākung fluā at Tulsa rally
Civil liberties groups have warned use of terms such as āChinese virusā can inspire racism against Asian Americans
Trump refers to ākung flu,ā West Point ramp and āsleepy Joe Bidenā as he returns to campaign at Tulsa rally
https://abcn.ws/3ddKdHu via @ABC
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Over 230 members of Oregon church get COVID-19 -
A church in eastern Oregon that defied the governorās stay-at-home order has become the stateās hot spot for new cases of COVID-19.
Two-thirds of 356 members of Lighthouse Pentecostal Church tested positive for COVID-19 over the weekend, according to The Associated Press.
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I wonder how they are spinning that since āGod will protect meā. Smh&rme
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Last Week Tonightās piece on the Coronavirus in prisons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuxnH0VAkAM
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Ugh.
Florida changes ICU reporting
The change could reduce the number of occupied ICU beds being reported to the state.
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The number of those now affected by Tās campaign staff in Tulsa now seems to be 8.
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The alpaca trio have been immunized with isolated proteins from SARS-CoV-2 and then researchers collect samples of their blood containing nanobodies produced by their immune systems. In the lab, the nanobodies are extracted, tested, and reproduced at a larger scale for use in research and for therapeutic development.
Virus-binding nanobodies from the alpacas can confer passive immunity in humans and thus help fight a SARS-CoV-2 infection. While passive immunity from a disease is shorter-lived compared to the protection oneās own immune response would provide, it helps protect right awayāsomething that could be valuable as we wait for a vaccine, Hersh says.
āNanobodies have many qualities that make them ideal for therapeutic development, particularly for COVID-19,ā said Hersh. āThey are small and stable, making them easier to manipulate, and they can be produced more rapidly and in large quantities at a low cost. They are also easily tolerated by the human immune system and could potentially be inhaled for rapid delivery to the lungs.ā
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Iāve been following the Alpaca story. Itās really neat. I think I posted about it before, but itās good to see it progressing!
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We all tend to overlap here and there. Good stuff.
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Yup. I often come here to post and find it is already, or the forum device tells me so. This article is just out, though, so likely has updates! Nice!
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Me too. You guys are the greatest!
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`Fauci says āit will be when not ifā for a COVID-19 vaccine
The governmentās top infectious disease expert told a House committee on Tuesday he believes āit will be when and not ifā there will be a COVID-19 vaccine and that he remains ācautiously optimisticā that some will be ready at the end of the year.
We talking 2021, next June? Thatās exciting.
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Watch: Dr. Fauci Remarks on Coronavirus Increases in Several States
Dr. Fauci speaks about the current status of COVID-19, saying the U.S. got āhit badly.ā He also stresses his concern with states now seeing big increases and calls it ātroublesome.ā
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Round-and-round it goes. Gotcha approaches are necessary to cut through the BS surrounding the question of Tās āslowing down testingā position for the Coronavirus. Donāt joke about this.
CNN anchor Brianna Keilar took Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh to task on Monday, repeatedly pressing him to defend Team Trumpās claim that the president was just ākiddingā when he claimed over the weekend that he asked his administration to slow down coronavirus testing.
During his sparsely attended Tulsa rally on Saturday night, President Donald Trump told his supporters that he called on officials to slow COVID-19 testing in order to decrease the number of confirmed cases in the country. A White House official later told The Daily Beast that Trump was āobviously kiddingā and Trump aide Peter Navarro claimed on Sunday that the remarks were ātongue-in-cheek.ā
In a contentious Monday interview that also featured the CNN anchor grilling Murtaugh on Trumpās recent use of the racist phrase āKung Flu,ā Keilar brought up Trumpās testing comments, asking whether it was true that Trump wanted to slow it down as America passes 120,000 COVID-19 deaths.
āNo, itās not. As a matter of fact, the United States leads the world in testing,ā Murtaugh replied, prompting Keilar to immediately wonder why Trump was saying that.
āI understand thereās not much of a sense of humor at CNN center,ā Murtaugh sneered. āBut the president was joking. He tried to illustrate the point that when you expand testing, you will naturally expand the number of positive cases that you detect.ā
āThat was the very point he was making,ā he continued. āIām not surprised that youāre either unable or unwilling to understand the president had a tongue-in-cheek remark there. But thatās the point heās making.ā
Keilar, meanwhile, pointed out that there are now ā120,000 Americans dead,ā adding: āI do not think that is funny. Do you think that is funny?ā
After Murtaugh reiterated the president was just trying to āillustrate the pointā about expanded testing, the CNN anchor pointed out that he just said āitās a joke.ā
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E.U. May Bar American Travelers as It Reopens Borders, Citing Failures on Virus
European Union officials are racing to agree on who can visit the bloc as of July 1 based on how countries of origin are faring with new coronavirus cases. Americans, so far, are excluded, according to draft lists seen by The New York Times.
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Those on the coronavirus task force tell the governors to increase testing, which is in not what T is saying.
Dr. Deborah Birx, the coordinator of President Donald Trumpās coronavirus task force, told the nationās governors in a call Monday that it was vital that they ramp up testing to find asymptomatic individuals to prevent further community spread.
Her remarks stood in stark contrast to those by the president at his rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma over the weekendāand the days sinceāin which he said he had asked his team to slow-walk testing initiatives so as not to inflate the countryās official case count.
āHopefully I have left you with the impression that increased testing is good,ā Birx said on the call, a recording of which was obtained by The Daily Beast. āWe would like to even see it even more. Identifying cases early including your asymptomatic [ones] will really help us protect the elderly and the additional people with comorbidities.ā
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T will do anything to get the voteā¦but this would be good for all.
Capitol Hill lawmakers are set to consider another stimulus package to boost the ailing U.S. economy.
President Donald Trump answered affirmatively when asked this week if a second round of stimulus checks could be in the mix.
The presidentās support could be key to whether another set of checks goes out. As with the first round, Americans who have their information already on file with the government would get their money quickest.
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T and WH always looking for a way to be divisive when it comes to blue states, and countering whatever they feel is an unfair criticism.
White House officials took aim at Gov. Cuomo Tuesday, slamming the governor over New Yorkās high number of coronavirus deaths in nursing homes.
āGovernor Cuomo alone is to blame for refusing to shut down New York and forcing seniors who tested positive for coronavirus back into his stateās nursing homes,ā White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said in a statement.
The comments come after Cuomo has spent the past few days doing an array of national media interviews and appearing on morning shows, touting New Yorkās progress during the pandemic and the stateās low infection rate.
Cuomo has repeatedly blamed the Trump administration for the high rate of nursing home deaths in the state and said New York was simply following guidelines regarding re-admittance set by the Centers for Disease Control.
āWe followed federal guidance on the nursing homes,ā Cuomo said earlier Tuesday during an interview on NBCās āToday Show.ā
āWe had more people die than any other state. Thatās a fact,ā he said. āThe reason that happened was because we had the virus coming from Europe when the federal government told us the virus was coming from China. And we had no screening on people coming from Europe.ā
Nearly 25,000 New Yorkers have died from COVID-19, including roughly 6,000 nursing home residents.
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