CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Hard to believe that if you had 60,000 [coronavirus deaths] — you could never be happy, but that’s a lot fewer than we were originally told and thinking. So they said between 100- and 220,000 lives on the minimum side, and then up to 2.2 million lives if we didn’t do anything. […]
Category: COVID-19
4/10/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Since the outbreak of COVID-19, we’ve heard increasing reports of Asian Americans in communities across our country being targeted with messages of hate… These disgusting and racist acts must stop… Trump’s attempts to deflect responsibility away from his own failures in addressing this pandemic by calling the coronavirus the ‘Chinese Virus’ […]
4/9/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Through the FDA’s Coronavirus Treatment Acceleration Program, 19 therapies and treatments are now being tested and 26 more are in the active planning for clinical trial. So we have 19 therapies being tested currently, and 26 more are in the active planning for clinical trials. That’s a big statement. That’s a lot. […]
4/9/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I can’t believe I have to say this, but we should be expanding the number of testing sites and surging the number of tests — not reducing them. Testing is key to finding a way out of this crisis.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Apr. 9, 2020 4:27 pm […]
4/8/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Reporter: So what specifically has to happen for you to feel that it is safe to reopen the country?] “I think we can say that we have to be on that down side of that slope and heading to a very strong direction that this thing is gone. We could do it […]
4/8/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “Until we have a vaccine, we’re not going to be totally out of the woods. In the meantime though, what we have to do is significantly increase, significantly increase the number of tests that are available, the testing kits that are available and all the protective gear that’s available so doctors and nurses […]
4/8/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Look, as I said, the President makes it sound like there’s a false choice. We either deal with the virus or we deal with unemployment and the economy. If you don’t deal with the virus first, you’re never going to get back to be able to have the kind of robust […]
4/8/2020
CONGRESS/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOBS/JOE BIDEN: “We have to work with Congress to extend and boost unemployment benefits. That is the extra $600 however long this [coronavirus] crisis lasts, not just for the month, for however long this crisis last, so your unemployment check will be there every month for the entire month for as long as this crisis […]
4/8/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “My heart goes out to everyone out there suffering from COVID-19. We all know the greatest tragedy in all of this is how many lives are being lost, how many are infected and suffering alone… This disease is not only tearing through the nation, it’s devastating families… It’s wrecking the economy and we’re […]
4/7/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: “The W.H.O. really blew it. For some reason, funded largely by the United States, yet very China centric. We will be giving that a good look. Fortunately I rejected their advice on keeping our borders open to China early on. Why did they give us such a faulty recommendation?” -Donald […]
4/7/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “And they’re finding that people that — like in the malaria countries, that it doesn’t seem that those countries have been hit, because the people take it. You have countries that have massive malaria problems and they take the hydroxychloroquine, and they don’t seem to be having the problem with the — the virus […]
4/7/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The president should be laser focused on keeping as many people employed as possible and making workers financially whole so that we weather this crisis, come back stronger as a nation like we always have in the past. Because once we break the infection curve and stem this public health crisis, […]
4/7/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump likes to say he’s a wartime president. Well, he needs a step up and act like it. I’ve offered him a 10 point plan. I call it the Make Work Checklist. It’s what the Trump administration needs to do to make sure that that $2 trillion in the Cares Act […]
4/6/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For months, I called on President Trump to step up and take the action necessary to combat COVID-19. But week after week, he downplayed the threat it posed, misled the American people, and failed to act.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Apr. 6, 2020 6:55 pm […]
4/5/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Now, we have purchased and we have stockpiled 29 million pills of the hydroxychloroquine — 29 million… Also, we’re sending them to various labs, our military. We’re sending them to the hospitals. We’re sending them all over. I just think it’s something — you know the expression, I’ve used it for certain […]
4/5/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I really believe that the American people are doing a better job than anybody would have thought even possible, and that’s one of the reasons we can even be talking about the kind of number that we hopefully will be talking about, which is at the minimum level instead of the maximum […]
4/5/2020
2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTING: “[W]e’ve never allowed any crisis from a Civil War straight through to a pandemic in ‘17, all the way around, in ’16, we have never, never let our democracy take second fiddle, we can both have a democracy and elections and at the same time protect the public health. But […]
4/5/2020
AFRICAN AMERICANS/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We have got to save jobs. We’ve got to save people’s businesses. And they have to exponentially ramp up testing. We have been talking about 4 million tests are going to be available. Look where is all this — where is it? What’s being done? You’ve got to open up […]
4/5/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The virus is not his [President Trump’s] fault, but the response is his responsibility. Look, there are a few things he can do — he can immediately and fully implement the Defense Production Act, which I and many others called for a long time ago. And he’s just getting underway with […]
4/5/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “You have to implement the Defense Production Act, empower a supply commander, create a Defense Production Act for banks that get out small business loans, ramp up testing, a whole range of things. You got to go faster than slower. And we started off awfully slow… It’s about — it’s about […]
4/4/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[M]itigation does work. But again, we’re not going to destroy our country. We have to get back. Because, you know, at a certain point, you’ll lose more people this way — through all of the problems caused — than you will with what we’re doing right now… But I’ve said it from […]
4/3/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We continue to study the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine and other therapies, and the treatment and prevention of the virus. And we will keep the American people fully informed on our findings. Hydroxychloroquine — I don’t know, it’s looking like it’s having some good results. I hope that — that would be a […]
4/3/2020
CDC/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The CDC is recommending that Americans wear a basic cloth or a fabric mask that can be either purchased online or simply made at home… So with the masks, it’s going to be, really, a voluntary thing. You can do it. You don’t have to do it. I’m choosing not to do […]
4/2/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I want to remind small-business owners across America that the Paycheck Protection Program is launching tomorrow. Nearly $350 billion in loans will be available to small businesses, including sole proprietors… Now, as we’ve indicated, we have ventilators in the National Stockpile. We pushed ventilators out. We’re holding ventilators to put to the point […]
4/2/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/OBAMACARE (ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “During this outbreak, when health care coverage is more important than ever, Donald Trump is refusing to give those who have been uninsured access to the best resource we have: the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces… This is no time to put pettiness and ideology above helping those who are in the […]
4/2/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “This is a war against this virus. There’s a number of specific suggestions that I know from in the past worked and some I think would work. And I’m prepared to offer them to the president… This is beyond politics right now. I mean, the projections that I get in the […]
4/1/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “But [China’s coronavirus] numbers seem to be a little bit on the light side. And I’m being nice when I say that, relative to what we witnessed and what was reported… As to whether or not their numbers are accurate, I’m not an accountant from China… Nobody has ever seen anything like […]
3/31/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We’re at war with a deadly virus… this is going to be a very painful, very, very painful two weeks… The question is what would have happened if we did nothing? Because there was a group that said let’s just ride it out… 2.2 million people would’ve died if we did nothing. We […]
3/30/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FDA: “So with the hydroxychloroquine is something that I have been pushing very hard. I got the very early approval from the FDA. It was going to take a long time, and Dr. Stephen Hahn, the Head of the FDA, gave us an early approval, a very quick approval, a 24-hour approval. I mean, it […]
3/30/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I haven’t heard about [coronavirus] testing in weeks. We’ve tested more now than any nation in the world. We’ve got these great tests and we’re coming out with another one tomorrow where it’s almost instantaneous testing. But I haven’t heard about testing being a problem.” -Donald Trump as quoted by Jonathan Martin, […]
3/29/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The President cannot resort to fear-mongering and also baseless downplaying or lying about the situation. The President needs to be honest, needs to follow. The science needs to be transparent with the American people. And we need information for people not to scare them, but to get people to pull together […]
3/29/2020
2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/VOTE BY MAIL: “I think we should be looking to all-mail ballots across the board to begin with because it’s an easier way for people to vote. But whether or not that’s required across the board in all 50 states and territories, I’m not sure yet. I think we can make that. But […]
3/29/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[L]ook, the Coronavirus is not the president’s fault. But the slow response, the failure to get going right away, the inability to do the things that needed to be done quickly, they are things that are — they can’t continue. We’re going to go through another phase of this. And we […]
3/29/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “The first thing we should do is listen to the scientists. Secondly, we should tell them the truth, the unvarnished truth. The American people have never shied away from being able to deal with the truth. The worst thing you can do is raise false expectations and then watch them get dashed. Then […]
3/29/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I am issuing this challenge to the President: in the next 48 hours, direct the production and distribution of respirator masks, gloves, protective face shields and gowns to fill every supply request made by a governor to the federal government. Lives are at stake.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Mar. 29, 2020 10:43 […]
3/29/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The modeling estimates that the peak in death rate is likely to hit in two weeks. So, I’ll say it again: The peak, the highest point of death rates — remember this — is likely to hit in two weeks. Nothing would be worse than declaring victory before the victory is won. […]
3/29/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[A ]lot of people have been asking, ‘Well, what would have happened if we did nothing? Did nothing — we just rode it out.’… Think of the number: 2.2 — potentially 2.2 million people [dying of coronavirus] if we did nothing. If we didn’t do the distancing, if we didn’t do all […]
3/29/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As you know, every level of government — state, local, and federal — is working nonstop to obtain more personal protective equipment for frontline workers. We’re delivering vast orders of this material… Even though this is different, something is going on, and you ought to look into it as reporters. Where are […]
3/28/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Administration promised millions of [coronavirus] tests by mid-March. But it’s not happening fast enough. Where are the tests, Mr. President?” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Mar. 28, 2020 5:01 pm […]
3/27/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID/FEDERAL FUNDING/LEGISLATION: “CARES Act [H.R. 748 – The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act] Became law March 27, 2020. [signed into law by Donald Trump] The $2.2 trillion bill included $1,200 stimulus checks, enhanced unemployment benefits, created the Paycheck Protection Program small business forgiveness loan program, aid for state and local governments, and […]
3/27/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The coronavirus is not Donald Trump’s fault, but his inept response is. He ignored the warnings for months, downplayed the threat it posed, and failed to take the action needed to combat the outbreak. It’s one of the greatest failures of presidential leadership in our history.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Mar. 27, 2020 […]
3/27/2020
COVID-19/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “To ensure that our healthcare systems are able to surge capacity and capability to respond to the spread of COVID-19, it is the policy of the United States to expand domestic production of health and medical resources needed to respond to the spread of COVID-19, including personal protective equipment and ventilators. Accordingly, […]
3/27/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[The Obama] administration spent a lot of time working with the incoming Trump administration, laying out exactly what could happen with a future pandemic, and that they were likely, not unlikely to occur… We set up an office within the White House directly to stay focused on this, in the president […]
3/27/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Last night, I spoke to President Xi. We talked about the experience that they had in China and all of the things that have taken place. And we learned a lot. They’ve had a very tough experience, and they’re doing well and he’s doing well. President Xi is doing very well. But […]
3/27/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Reporter: What more, specifically, do you want the governor of Washington and the governor of Michigan to be doing?] “All I want them to do — very simple — I want them to be appreciative. I don’t want them to say things that aren’t true. I want them to be appreciative. […]
3/26/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[W]e inherited a broken situation, but I don’t totally blame the people that were before me and this administration. Nobody would have ever thought a thing like this could have happened. But the Production Act — Defense Production Act — is a wonderful thing, but I just haven’t had to use it. They […]
3/26/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I have a feeling that a lot of the numbers that are being said in some areas are just bigger than they’re going to be. I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators. You know, you’re going to major hospitals sometimes, they’ll have two ventilators.” -Donald Trump as quoted by Fox […]
3/25/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In recent days, there’s been talk that we have to choose between public health and our economy. That’s not just a false choice. It’s a dangerous one. It would be catastrophic to reopen everything without a plan, and then have a spike in [coronavirus] cases and shut it all back down. That […]
3/25/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I have now approved major disaster declarations for New York, California, Washington, Iowa, Louisiana, Texas, and Florida. That has great significance, as you know, and legal significance… We’re testing more than anybody right now. There’s nobody even close. And our tests are the best tests. They’re the most accurate tests… We have some […]
3/24/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I made a decision to close off to China. That was weeks early. And, honestly, I took a lot of heat. Sleepy Joe Biden said it’s xenophobic. I don’t know if he knows what that means, but that’s okay. He said it’s racist, what I did. Thousands and thousands of more […]
3/24/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “We know, you’re tired of hearing the phrase, you’ve got to flatten that curve, where it’s going up like this, people get it, and then it comes down. We’ve got to flatten that curve. And we’ve got to make sure that once, in fact, we have this under control, it doesn’t come back. So […]
3/24/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “Let me be very clear: No one is expendable. No matter your age, race, gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability. No life is worth losing to add one more point to the Dow.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Mar. 24, 2020 8:10 pm […]
3/24/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “Look, you’re going to lose a number of people to the flu. But you’re going to lose more people by putting a country into a massive recession or depression. You’re going to lose people. You’re going to have suicides by the thousands. You’re going to have all sorts of things happen. You’re going to […]
3/24/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “We have had flus before. We have had viruses before. So this is something new. And this is why I say we have to – I gave it two weeks. And I guess, by Monday or Tuesday, it’s about two weeks. And we will assess at that time, and we will give it some […]
3/24/2020
2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/VOTE BY MAIL: “I don’t think we should call off any of the elections. I think we just have to move forward. We may have to use different means and methods. There is an awful lot of direct-mail voting now going on, which may be one of the answers. But I think it […]
3/24/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “But we lose thousands of people a year to the flu. We never turn the country off. We lose much more than that to automobile accidents. We didn’t call up the automobile companies and say, stop making cars. We don’t want any cars anymore. We have to get back to work. Now, with all […]
3/24/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I don’t want to slow the economy. I would like everybody to be back to work. But let’s be reasonable here. Let’s look at what happened in other countries. Look what happened when we have social distancing… Now, there are places in the country where I could see it makes sense […]
3/24/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “He [Trump] should stop talking and start listening to the medical experts. You talk about having an economic crisis. You want an economic crisis, watch this spike. Watch the number of dead go up. Watch the number of people who, in fact, connect with this virus… Look, we all want the […]
3/24/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[W]e lose thousands and thousands of people a year to the flu. We don’t turn the country off, I mean every year… We lose much more than that to automobile accidents. We didn’t call up the automobile companies, say, ‘Stop making cars. We don’t want any cars anymore.” We have to get […]
3/23/2020
COVID-19/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “To ensure that our Nation’s healthcare systems are able to surge capacity and capability to respond to the spread of COVID‑19, it is the policy of the United States that health and medical resources needed to respond to the spread of COVID-19, such as personal protective equipment and sanitizing and disinfecting products, […]
3/23/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our intelligence officials were warning of coronavirus threat in January. Just based on public information that I had, I warned the threat was getting worse way back on January the 27th… As of late yesterday, we’re told that the president still has not activated the authority under the Defense Production Act, […]
3/23/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It is very important that we totally protect our Asian American community in the United States, and all around the world. They are amazing people, and the spreading of the Virus…. ….is NOT their fault in any way, shape, or form. They are working closely with us to get rid of it. […]
3/23/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/HEALTHCARE/JOE BIDEN/OBAMACARE (ACA)/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “At a time of national emergency, which is laying bare the existing vulnerabilities in our health infrastructure, it is unconscionable that you are continuing to pursue a lawsuit designed to strip millions of Americans of their health insurance and protections under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including the ban […]
3/22/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF. AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD, WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY WE WANT TO GO!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 22, 2020 11:50 pm […]
3/22/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I’m of the opinion we have to do great during this 14 days, during the 15-day period. We’ll know at the end of 14 days, pretty much. We’re going to have a pretty good idea how we’re doing. I think you have to shut it down and you have to see. But, […]
3/31/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/OBAMACARE (ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We’re in the middle of a global pandemic, and the Trump Administration is preventing people from getting health care. I can’t believe this needs to be said, but President Trump needs to reopen Obamacare enrollment, and he needs to do it now. Lives are at stake.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Mar. 31, […]
3/21/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I wish they could have told us earlier about what was going on inside. We didn’t know about it until it started coming out publicly… China has worked very hard. China has lost thousands and thousands of people… No, they weren’t transparent. They were transparent at that time, but when we saw […]
3/20/2020
2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “He’s [Trump] all over the map. In a crisis we need leadership that’s straightforward, clear and reliable… Stop saying false things that will make you sound like a hero.” -Joe Biden as quoted by Eric Bradner and Sarah Mucha, “Biden to Trump on Coronavirus: ‘Stop Saying False Things That Will […]
3/19/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I don’t view it as an act of God; I would view it as is something that just surprised the whole world. And if people would have known about it… It could have been stopped right where it came from — China… So we slashed red tape to develop vaccines and therapies […]
3/18/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID/FEDERAL FUNDING/LEGISLATION: “Families First Coronavirus Response Act [H.R. 6201] Became law March 18, 2020. [signed into law by Donald Trump] The $225 billion legislation provided COVID-19 testing funds, paid sick leave, and food assistance funding.” -Nicholas Wu and Javier Zarracina, “All of the COVID-19 stimulus bills, visualized,” usatoday.com, Mar. 11, 2021 […]
3/18/2020
COVID-19/HEALTHCARE/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “To ensure that our healthcare system is able to surge capacity and capability to respond to the spread of COVID-19, it is critical that all health and medical resources needed to respond to the spread of COVID-19 are properly distributed to the Nation’s healthcare system and others that need them most at […]
3/18/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Much has been made of changes in the President’s tone in recent days. But with our health care system at risk, a virus spreading, our economy on the brink — and so many lives at stake — it’s time to be less interested in the President’s words and more focused on […]
3/18/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I only signed the Defense Production Act to combat the Chinese Virus should we need to invoke it in a worst case scenario in the future. Hopefully there will be no need, but we are all in this TOGETHER!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 18, 2020 5:37 pm […]
3/18/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We’ll be invoking the Defense Production Act, just in case we need it. In other words, I think you all know what it is, and it can do a lot of good things if we need it… I think we’re doing a really good job. We started off with a termination of […]
3/17/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The coronavirus doesn’t care if you’re a Democrat or Republican. It will not discriminate based on national origin, race, gender, or your zip code. It will touch people in positions of power, as well as the most vulnerable people in our society.” -Joe Biden as quoted by Rev, “Joe Biden Speech […]
3/17/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our guidance yesterday urges Americans to take action for 15 days to help stem the outbreak… We’ll see what happens after that… our country can be rolling again pretty quickly… I’ve always known this is a — this is a real — this is a pandemic. I’ve felt it was a pandemic long […]
3/16/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/HEALTHCARE/JOE BIDEN: “Thank you to our health care providers, first responders, grocery and other retail workers, and so many others that are keeping us safe and prepared. This coronavirus pandemic makes it clear that all workers deserve paid sick live, workplace protections and unemployment benefits.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Mar. 16, 2020 2:25 pm […]
3/16/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the wake of the coronavirus, we need a major bailout package that delivers real relief to the American people — not more handouts for giant corporations.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Mar. 16, 2020 3:15 pm […]
3/16/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[W]e’re announcing new guidelines for every American to follow over the next 15 days as we combat the virus… [M]y administration is recommending that all Americans, including the young and healthy, work to engage in schooling from home when possible. Avoid gathering in groups of more than 10 people. Avoid discretionary travel. […]
3/15/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “This is a very contagious virus. It’s incredible. But it’s something that we have tremendous control over. I think, very important, the young people and people of good health, and groups of people, just are not strongly affected.” -Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task […]
3/13/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FAUCI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Q: Dr. Fauci said earlier this week that the lag in testing was, in fact, ‘a failing.’ Do you take responsibility for that?] “Yeah, no, I don’t take responsibility at all, because we were given a — a set of circumstances and we were given rules, regulations, and specifications from a different […]
3/13/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America… do hereby find and proclaim that the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States constitutes a national emergency, beginning March 1, 2020.” -Donald Trump, […]
3/12/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Look, it can be hard to see the concrete value of this work when everything seems to be going well in the world. But by cutting our investment in global health, this administration has left us woefully unprepared for the exact crisis we now face.” -Joe Biden as quoted by Rev, “Joe […]
3/12/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our [Obama] administration, our last administration, we created that office to better respond to future global threats after the Ebola crisis of 2014. It was designed for exactly this scenario, but for some reason I still don’t understand President Trump eliminated that office two years ago. Look, here’s the bottom line. […]
3/12/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Anyone, anyone who needs to be tested based on medical guidance should be tested at no charge, at no charge. The administration’s failure on testing is colossal and it’s a failure of planning, leadership, and execution. The White House should measure and report each day, each and every day, how many […]
3/12/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I’d like to thank those who are already making sacrifices to protect us, whether that’s self quarantine, self quarantining themselves or canceling events and closing campuses. Because whether or not you’re infected or know someone who is infected or have been in contact with an infected person, this is going to […]
3/11/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “My fellow Americans: Tonight, I want to speak with you about our nation’s unprecedented response to the coronavirus outbreak that started in China and is now spreading throughout the world. Today, the World Health Organization officially announced that this is a global pandemic… To keep new cases from entering our shores, we […]
3/10/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “This was something that came out of China, and it hit us and many other countries. You look at the numbers; I see the numbers with just by watching you folks. I see it — it’s over 100 different countries. And it hit the world. And we’re prepared, and we’re doing a […]
3/9/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I mean, there’s no sense of urgency. The American people, I think, want to know that their president is on top of this, understands it and that he’s being guided by science… And the American people are just saying wait a minute, what’s going on here? What’s happening?… And the other […]
3/9/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 9, 2020 10:47 am […]
3/6/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID/FEDERAL FUNDING/LEGISLATION: “Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020 [H.R. 6074] Became law March 6, 2020 [signed into law by Donald Trump] Provided $8.3 billion to fight the spread of COVID-19 in the United States by funding vaccine and testing development.” -Nicholas Wu and Javier Zarracina, “All of the COVID-19 stimulus bills, visualized,” usatoday.com, […]
3/4/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I think the 3.4 percent [global death rate] is really a false number… So, if we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better…But again, they don’t […]
3/3/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We made an early decision based on a little bit of luck, I suspect, but that was the original decision on China itself. And China, in all fairness to them, they never blamed us. It was, you know, a tough decision for them, but they fully understood. They were very reasonable about […]
3/2/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[W]e’re working very hard to expedite the longer process of developing a vaccine. We’re also moving with maximum speed to develop therapies so that we can help people recover as quickly as possible. We have a lot of recovery going on. We want to see if we can advance that. It’s likely […]
3/2/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We had a great meeting today with a lot of the great [pharmaceutical] companies and they’re going to have vaccines. I think relatively soon and they’re going to have something that makes you better and that’s going to actually take place, we think, even sooner.” -Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Speech: […]
3/1/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “And so, what, look, here, we knew this was coming. We knew that this was coming. Back as far as January. They didn’t even begin to prepare the testing kits. I mean, this is something that is kind of elementary. We talked about the testing kits. We’re now going to get […]
3/1/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: [Jake Tapper: “What, if anything, do you think you would be doing differently if you were president right now? “] “I know what I would have done differently, what we did in the Ebola crisis. They used — I heard the vice president say they set up an office in the White House. […]
3/1/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We knew that this [coronavirus] was coming. Back as far as January. They didn’t even begin to prepare the testing kits… Donald Trump said just several days ago this was a Democratic hoax. What in God’s name is he talking about? Has he no shame?” -Joe Biden as quoted by Devan Cole, “Biden […]
2/29/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Hours after officials confirmed the first death in the country from the coronavirus, President Trump moved on Saturday to calm public fears and demonstrate aggressive action against the illness, including by issuing new restrictions on foreign travel. Presiding over an abruptly announced news conference in the White House briefing room and flanked […]
2/29/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[O]ur relationship with China is very good. Maybe it’s closer because of what’s happened here, because it was — you know, in a certain way, this can bring the world closer, if you want to know. It can really do that.” -Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members […]