Donald Trump encouraged Fox News viewers to get a Covid-19 vaccine during a Tuesday evening interview with Maria Bartiromo, while also agreeing that they had to “live by” their “freedoms.”
“I would recommend it and I would recommend it to a lot of people that don’t want to get it, and a lot of those people voted for me, frankly. But, you know, again, we have our freedoms and we have to live by that. And I agree with that also,” Trump said. “But it’s a great vaccine, it’s a safe vaccine and it’s something that works.”
The former president — who was vaccinated along with the former first lady Melania Trump in January — then discussed the Fda authorizing the use of the vaccines and simultaneously said it “would have happened in many, many years from now” if he “didn’t get involved” and if he “did get involved,...
“I would recommend it and I would recommend it to a lot of people that don’t want to get it, and a lot of those people voted for me, frankly. But, you know, again, we have our freedoms and we have to live by that. And I agree with that also,” Trump said. “But it’s a great vaccine, it’s a safe vaccine and it’s something that works.”
The former president — who was vaccinated along with the former first lady Melania Trump in January — then discussed the Fda authorizing the use of the vaccines and simultaneously said it “would have happened in many, many years from now” if he “didn’t get involved” and if he “did get involved,...
- 3/17/2021
- by J. Clara Chan
- The Wrap
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough said Monday that if former president Donald Trump is going to keep keep taking credit for the vaccine rollout that has largely been happening under President Joe Biden, Trump must also tell his unvaccinated supporters to get the shot. That message was echoed across the media landscape beyond MSNBC, too.
“If the president wants to go off and say nothing, that’s fine. It’s not his responsibility anymore, but if he’s going to keep taking credit for the vaccine, if he’s going to put out about press releases about the vaccine, if he’s going to talk about his ‘beautiful’ shot, if his people are going t0 keep whining about how he’s not getting enough credit for Operation Warp Speed — which he should get credit for Operation Warp Speed — If he’s going to be engaged in that debate then, you know what,...
“If the president wants to go off and say nothing, that’s fine. It’s not his responsibility anymore, but if he’s going to keep taking credit for the vaccine, if he’s going to put out about press releases about the vaccine, if he’s going to talk about his ‘beautiful’ shot, if his people are going t0 keep whining about how he’s not getting enough credit for Operation Warp Speed — which he should get credit for Operation Warp Speed — If he’s going to be engaged in that debate then, you know what,...
- 3/16/2021
- by Lindsey Ellefson
- The Wrap
Update, Thursday: California Public Health today confirmed cases to date of 683,529, up 4,430 over Wednesday, with 12,550 deaths, up 143 over yesterday. Both numbers are a slight downtrend from Wednesday.
Earlier: California Governor Gavin Newsom announced what he called “a new partnership” in coronavirus testing. He said he was taking the action in anticipation of the stress the flu season will put on the testing system.
“We have averaged roughly 100,000 tests in the state,” said Newsom. Average turnaround time for results is “anywhere from 5 up to 7 days after the test.” Newsom acknowledged that
Developing a partnership with PerkinElmer to “build out a new Laboratory in California with full supply chain.” Newsom said the deal will provide much more reliability ad stability.
The idea is “to bring down costs for everybody…to get back tests in a timely manner,” said the governor.
“California is using its market power to combat global supply chain challenges...
Earlier: California Governor Gavin Newsom announced what he called “a new partnership” in coronavirus testing. He said he was taking the action in anticipation of the stress the flu season will put on the testing system.
“We have averaged roughly 100,000 tests in the state,” said Newsom. Average turnaround time for results is “anywhere from 5 up to 7 days after the test.” Newsom acknowledged that
Developing a partnership with PerkinElmer to “build out a new Laboratory in California with full supply chain.” Newsom said the deal will provide much more reliability ad stability.
The idea is “to bring down costs for everybody…to get back tests in a timely manner,” said the governor.
“California is using its market power to combat global supply chain challenges...
- 8/28/2020
- by Bruce Haring and Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Sean Penn, whose emergency relief organization Core has provided additional Covid-19 testing through out Los Angeles, said he doesn’t see the value in giving Admiral Brett Giroir advice on how to improve testing capacity.
“I don’t have faith in giving advice to the White House testing czar or to the President of the United States,” Penn said to CNN’s Ana Cabrera. “The former is a flat-out liar and an incompetent pawn.”
Penn sat down virtually with Cabrera to talk about his disaster response nonprofit. During the CNN Newsroom interview, the Oscar-winning actor said he finds inspiration in his Core staff, volunteers and the frontline workers facing the coronavirus pandemic head-on. He continued to call out lack of leadership or clear information from government officials, including those in the White House.
“Where we do see leadership, it’s to be valued,” he said.
During the interview Penn went...
“I don’t have faith in giving advice to the White House testing czar or to the President of the United States,” Penn said to CNN’s Ana Cabrera. “The former is a flat-out liar and an incompetent pawn.”
Penn sat down virtually with Cabrera to talk about his disaster response nonprofit. During the CNN Newsroom interview, the Oscar-winning actor said he finds inspiration in his Core staff, volunteers and the frontline workers facing the coronavirus pandemic head-on. He continued to call out lack of leadership or clear information from government officials, including those in the White House.
“Where we do see leadership, it’s to be valued,” he said.
During the interview Penn went...
- 8/23/2020
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
Sen. Mitt Romney has had enough of the Trump administration’s happy talk on testing.
On Monday at the White House, appearing before a banner reading, “America Leads the World in Testing,” President Trump attempted to spin his administration’s deadly testing debacle into a success story: “This week, the United States will pass 10 million tests conducted — nearly double the number of any other country,” Trump said. “We’re testing more people per capita than South Korea, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Sweden, Finland, and many other countries — and, in some cases,...
On Monday at the White House, appearing before a banner reading, “America Leads the World in Testing,” President Trump attempted to spin his administration’s deadly testing debacle into a success story: “This week, the United States will pass 10 million tests conducted — nearly double the number of any other country,” Trump said. “We’re testing more people per capita than South Korea, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Sweden, Finland, and many other countries — and, in some cases,...
- 5/12/2020
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
Update: Anthony Fauci said that they “hope to know” in late fall or early winter whether the development of a coronavirus vaccine is successful.
He said that he was “cautiously optimistic” that there will be a vaccine with “some degree” of effectiveness. Eight vaccines are in development, he said.
“We have many candidates and hope to have multiple winners,” Fauci told a Senate committee on Tuesday, as he outlined the relatively rapid pace of development of a vaccine and treatment for the virus.
He also warned that there were potential downsides.
“I must warn that there is also the possibility of negative consequences, where certain vaccines may enhance the negative effect of the infection,” he said. “The big unknown is efficacy. Will there be presence or absence, and how durable will it be?”
He also said that it was “a bit of a bridge too far” to expect that a...
He said that he was “cautiously optimistic” that there will be a vaccine with “some degree” of effectiveness. Eight vaccines are in development, he said.
“We have many candidates and hope to have multiple winners,” Fauci told a Senate committee on Tuesday, as he outlined the relatively rapid pace of development of a vaccine and treatment for the virus.
He also warned that there were potential downsides.
“I must warn that there is also the possibility of negative consequences, where certain vaccines may enhance the negative effect of the infection,” he said. “The big unknown is efficacy. Will there be presence or absence, and how durable will it be?”
He also said that it was “a bit of a bridge too far” to expect that a...
- 5/12/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
President Donald Trump abruptly ended a coronavirus press briefing on Monday after he was challenged by an Asian American reporter for CBS News why he told her to “ask China” about coronavirus testing, and later by a CNN correspondent who tried to ask further queries.
Weijia Jiang asked Trump why he was emphasizing that the U.S. was doing better than any other country when it comes to testing.
“Why does that matter? Why is this a global competition to you if every day Americans are still losing their lives and we are still seeing more cases every day?” she asked.
“Well, they are losing their lives everywhere in the world,” Trump said. “Maybe that is a question you should ask China. Don’t ask me. Ask China that question. When you ask China that question you may get a very unusual answer.”
The president then called on CNN’s Kaitlan Collins,...
Weijia Jiang asked Trump why he was emphasizing that the U.S. was doing better than any other country when it comes to testing.
“Why does that matter? Why is this a global competition to you if every day Americans are still losing their lives and we are still seeing more cases every day?” she asked.
“Well, they are losing their lives everywhere in the world,” Trump said. “Maybe that is a question you should ask China. Don’t ask me. Ask China that question. When you ask China that question you may get a very unusual answer.”
The president then called on CNN’s Kaitlan Collins,...
- 5/11/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Maryland’s Republican governor said that he has deployed both the state’s National Guard and the state police to protect the 500,000 coronavirus tests he secured from seizure by the federal government and “whoever might interfere with us getting that to our folks who needed it.”
On Thursday, Governor Larry Hogan told the Washington Post, “it was a little bit of a concern” that federal officials might confiscate the tests which arrived in his state from South Korea on Monday. Hogan went on to say that reports of other incidents...
On Thursday, Governor Larry Hogan told the Washington Post, “it was a little bit of a concern” that federal officials might confiscate the tests which arrived in his state from South Korea on Monday. Hogan went on to say that reports of other incidents...
- 4/30/2020
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
Washington — It was possible until now to view the novel coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. as a crisis concentrated in a few densely populated regions: New York City, Seattle, the San Francisco Bay Area. New York is now considered the global epicenter of the pandemic. Some of the most searing images and stories of the past few weeks have come from long-term care facilities in Washington state and emergency rooms in New York City.
But the pandemic is entering a new phase, medical and public-health experts say. In the past week,...
But the pandemic is entering a new phase, medical and public-health experts say. In the past week,...
- 3/27/2020
- by Andy Kroll
- Rollingstone.com
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