And oh yeah - that "slight uptick = another record total of 55 - 60,000 new cases in one day.
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WaPo, Aaron Blake:
Throughout his presidency and especially the coronavirus outbreak, President Trump has avoided blame — to use a phrase — like the plague. When the outbreak took off and U.S. testing and medical equipment weren’t up to snuff, he blamed the Obama administration for leaving the cupboard “bare” (it didn’t, and he had been president for three years by that point). When governors complained about the lack of ventilators, he blamed them for not stockpiling them on their own. When things got especially bad, he started to blame China (despite having previously repeatedly vouched for it).
“I don’t take responsibility at all,” he once said rather bluntly when asked about the slow ramp-up in testing.
For all of Trump’s attempts to slough off blame for what has happened, though, he is increasingly saying things that will make that very difficult. He has made clear — in case it wasn’t already — that he is leaning on health officials to do and say things they might not otherwise do or say of their own volition.
Over the past three days, Trump has urged health officials at both the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to tailor their recommendations to his non-medical-expert will.
On Monday, it was Trump urging the FDA to rekindle its previously aborted emergency-use authorization of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus treatment.
“Act now @US_FDA,” Trump said, while citing a non-randomized study that suggested that the drug might actually help.
For decades, "conservatives" have been carping about how disconnected and out of touch Washington is. And almost every day, they show us how they've made it so.
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