Jan. 22: “We have it totally under control.”
Jan. 24: “It will all work out well.” Jan. 30: “We think we have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment — five. And those people are all recuperating successfully. Feb. 2: “Well, we pretty much shut it down coming in from China." "...we did shut it down, yes." Feb. 10: “I think the virus is going to be — it’s going to be fine.” Feb. 14: “We have a very small number of people in the country, right now, with it. It’s like around 12. Many of them are getting better. Some are fully recovered already. So we’re in very good shape.” Feb. 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. … Stock Market starting to look very good to me!” Feb. 25: “You may ask about the coronavirus, which is very well under control in our country. We have very few people with it, and the people that have it are … getting better. They’re all getting better." Feb. 26: “Because of all we’ve done, the risk to the American people remains very low. … When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero. That’s a pretty good job we’ve done." Feb. 27: “Only a very small number in U.S., & China numbers look to be going down. All countries working well together!” Feb. 28: “I think it’s really going well...There’s one who is quite sick, but maybe he’s gonna be fine." Feb. 28: “It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.” March 6: “We did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, ‘Calm. You have to be calm. It’ll go away.' ” March 9: “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!” March 10: “And it hit the world. And we’re prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.” March 11: “I think we’re going to get through it very well.” March 13: National Emergency declared. and "I don't take responsibility at all" |
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Interesting; but not surprising.
Trump “has a small personal financial interest” in Sanofi, the French drugmaker that makes Plaquenil, the brand-name version of hydroxychloroquine, The New York Times reported Monday.
In addition, Sanofi’s largest shareholders include a mutual fund company run by major Republican donor Ken Fisher, the paper said. Trump’s three family trusts, as of last year, each had investments in a mutual fund whose largest holding was Sanofi, according to the Times. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross also had ties to the drugmaker, the Times reported.
James Fell: "Due to his horrible mishandling of COVID-19, Trump will go down as the worst president in U.S. history. There used to be competition for this title, but no longer.
Anyone who still supports him is complicit. Ignorance of his criminality is no longer an excuse. Being delusional and sucked into the cult doesn’t earn forgiveness.
Reject him and repent, and you can regain some humanity."
Wow, although this does not surprise.
Trump is trump. Only those who choose willful ignorance over facts and reality continue to support Dotard. At this point my fear of Covid-19 is superceded by my fear that this nation, in spite of ALL we know, will reelect the dumbest, most inept and crooked ass in America for another 4 years of divisiveness and chaos.
Shaw... Trump owns stock, as do all of his businesses, in that company. Are we surprised?
Another GOP Senator bought PPE stock after the intelligence briefing that led 2 other GOP Senators to sell their stocks.
What a wonderful party of true Americans...
Senators Burr, Loefler and Perdue.
Just wonderful.
A Note to the people who are fighting the use of hydroxychloroquine.
Morons don’t understand that the normal number of illnesses and deaths we have each year
Morons like you and that POS who writes that Rag called a blog don’t understand, refuse to understand that 10,000 People Have Died" in the United States have died so far, and to make you understand even better, that comes to . 7,000 Dying each, and every day! So with figures like that don’t you think that it would be advisable to TRY a drug that is, as already was proven to be safe, and has already helped 100's, or thousands of people?
If you don’t than you are even dumber than I originally thought.
Is it "Smiley" or "Smily" or two different people? Anyway, you're not a doctor or a medical researcher, so why are you promoting this drug?
Here's some fact-based info you obviously haven't read:
"Researchers also don’t know whether hydroxychloroquine is actually good at fighting against Covid-19. Most patients infected with the disease recover with no treatment. So scientists need to distinguish whether the drug is actually helping patients recover faster or if they are getting better on their own, making sure that what they’re seeing isn’t due to chance.
The small sample studies and anecdotes around hydroxychloroquine that have emerged so far don’t cut it.
The gold standard for figuring out cause and effect is a double-blind randomized controlled trial. Here, patients are sorted randomly between those receiving the treatment and those in the control group, or those receiving a placebo. To make a study “double-blind,” not only do the patients not know if they are receiving the active treatment, the people administering it also don’t know (thus controlling for unintentional bias). These trials, when large enough, can yield robust results and overcome biases that emerge in smaller samples, like having a certain age demographic overrepresented in the study group.
There are now larger studies underway to resolve questions about the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine, some recruiting thousands of patients.
Such trials are especially important because of the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic. Millions of people are likely to contract the virus, and without widespread treatment, many of them will suffer and die. On the other hand, a treatment like hydroxychloroquine could do more damage than good if prescribed to patients without proper testing to see which circumstances make the most sense to use the drug.
But randomized controlled trials are expensive and frustratingly time-consuming in the context of a mounting pandemic. It’s not surprising that people are scrounging for whatever information is already available.
What we currently know about using hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19
The anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, sold under the brand name Plaquenil, is also prescribed as an anti-inflammatory drug for conditions like arthritis and lupus. It’s a derivative of another anti-malaria drug, chloroquine.
Hydroxychloroquine is an appealing prospect because it’s already been tested in humans and is available in a low-cost generic form. Doctors in several countries, including the United States, France, China, and South Korea, have reported success in treating Covid-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine, sometimes paired with the antibiotic azithromycin.
But these are anecdotes that don’t offer much insight into how effective the drug could be in a wider population.
A laboratory study of hydroxychloroquine showed that it could prevent SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind Covid-19, from entering cells in a petri dish. While it shows a plausible mechanism for the drug, the effects on cells in a dish can be different from those in living people.
Human trials of hydroxychloroquine, by contrast, have so far yielded mixed results. A tiny study by researchers in France found that the drug could clear the infection in a few days. But the study sample included only 36 patients, and the trial wasn’t randomized, meaning the administrators were deliberately picking which patients received the treatment, pottentially skewing the results."
Hasn't read or simply ignored. My educated guess is it is the latter Shaw.
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