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Rep. Greg Stanton: Test kit shortage could end coronavirus screening
In a letter to Vice President Mike Pence, Rep. Greg Stanton said Arizona remains woefully short on coronavirus test kits.
President Trump discusses efforts to slow COVID-19 pandemic, urges Michigan, Washington governors to step up
President Trump joins Sean Hannity on 'Hannity' to discuss race to find coronavirus treatments, efforts to bolster the U.S. economy amid COVID-19 crisis.
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Katherine Stewart
At 25:50 minute mark Trump says, "I don't believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators."
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The Road to Coronavirus Hell Was Paved by Evangelicals
Trump’s response to the pandemic has been haunted by the science denialism of his ultraconservative religious allies.
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Katherine Stewart
My latest for @nytopinion: "When a strong centralized response is needed from the federal government, it doesn’t help to have an administration that has never believed in a federal government serving the public good."
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Katherine Stewart
Trump’s response to the pandemic has been haunted by the science denialism of his ultraconservative religious allies.
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Katherine Stewart
This headline more precise: The Religious Right's Hostility to Science is Crippling our Coronavirus Response
nytimes.com/2020/03/27/opi… twitter.com/calebzette/sta…
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Why is the CDC 'sitting on the sidelines' in the Covid-19 fight?
The CDC has long led the way in fighting disease outbreaks in the U.S. and abroad. Why isn't it doing that against the Covid-19 pandemic?
Katherine Stewart
A CDC veteran asks: Why is the agency ‘sitting on the sidelines’ in the fight against Covid-19? statnews.com/2020/03/26/cdc… via @statnews
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Job Vacancies and Inexperience Mar Federal Response to Coronavirus
Unfilled jobs and high turnover mean the government is ill equipped for a public health crisis, said many former and current federal officials and disaster experts.
Trump's weekly Cabinet Bible study leader blames coronavirus on gay people and environmentalists
The minister who hosts a weekly bible study session for President Trump’s Cabinet has an opinion about the origins of the coronavirus. According to Ralph Drollinger, it’s just another form of God’s wrath in response to an increasingly progressive...
Katherine Stewart and John Fea
Register now for Midtown Scholar Bookstore's event on Crowdcast, scheduled to go live on Wednesday March 25, 2020 at 7:00 pm EDT.
In The Face Of A Pandemic, The Government Can Curb Gatherings – And That Includes Houses Of Worship
Religious freedom doesn’t mean the right to expose others to harm, injury or death. Certain religious practices can be curbed or banned if they threaten others.
Katherine Stewart
"Religious freedom doesn’t mean the right to expose others to harm, injury or death." @RobBoston1 on exempting houses of worship from curbs on large public gatherings
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'Trump kept saying it was basically pretty much a cure': Woman whose husband died after ingesting chloroquine warns the public not to 'believe anything that the president says'
"We saw Trump on TV — every channel — and all of his buddies and that this was safe," the woman told NBC News.
Katherine Stewart
'Trump kept saying it was basically pretty much a cure': Woman whose husband died after ingesting chloroquine warns the public not to 'believe anything that the president says' businessinsider.com/coronavirus-wo… via @businessinsider
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Spit On, Yelled At, Attacked: Chinese-Americans Fear For Their Safety
As bigots blame them for the coronavirus and President Trump labels it the “Chinese virus,” many Chinese-Americans say they are terrified of what could come next.
'I’m going to keep pushing.' Anthony Fauci tries to make the White House listen to facts of the pandemic
The infectious disease researcher has become America’s most trusted coronavirus expert
Exclusive: U.S. axed CDC expert job in China months before virus outbreak
Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began, the Trump administration e...
I'm A Doctor. The U.S. Response To Coronavirus Has Been Nothing Short Of Criminal.
"With every crucial delay, with every blunder and misstep, the toll is going to be measured in lives lost."
Katherine Stewart
"Who is there to protect those frontline workers from the failure of this government?"
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Governments and Companies Race to Make Masks Vital to Virus Fight
President Trump resists using emergency powers to compel production, saying companies will voluntarily provide much-needed protective gear.
Senator Sold Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in Stocks After Suggesting U.S. Was Prepared for Coronavirus
Two weeks after the sales, Senator Richard Burr warned a nonpartisan group that the virus could soon cause a major disruption in the United States.
A New York Doctor’s Coronavirus Warning: The Sky Is Falling
Alarmist is not a word anyone has ever used to describe me before. But this is different.
Katherine Stewart
"Those of us walking into the rooms of Covid-19-positive patients every day need you and your minds, your networks, your creative solutions, and your voices to be fighting for us."
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Trump offers 'large sums' for exclusive access to coronavirus vaccine
German government tries to fight off aggressive takeover bid by US, say reports
Katherine Stewart
"The German health minister Jens Spahn said that a takeover of the CureVac company by the Trump administration was 'off the table'. CureVac would only develop vaccine 'for the whole world', Spahn said, 'not for individual countries'.”
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Why the U.S. Is So Behind on Coronavirus Testing
Bureaucracy, equipment shortages, an unwillingness to share, and failed leadership doomed the American response to COVID-19.
Katherine Stewart
South Korea tests 20,000 ppl/day. U.S. has tested fewer than 14,000 to date. Reasons for this abject failure to protect public health include abysmal leadership, onerous regulations, & shortage of equipment
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Justice Dept. Religious Freedom Training Spurs Concern Among Lawyers
Some department lawyers expressed worries that the workshops were held to teach ways to limit civil rights protections for gay and transgender people.