And the Trump-approved manipulation and distortion of the numbers has begun . . .
The Nevada Hospital Association announces that it is changing the way that COVID-19 hospitalization data is obtained and reported, per changes announced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. They say there may be "delays" as they adjust to the new reports. pic.twitter.com/SBPs0A00cU— Megan Messerly (@meganmesserly) July 15, 2020
Iowa Department of Public Health spokesperson, ousted from her job today, tells the Des Moines register that reporters have been denied timely information during the covid crisis. https://t.co/4ZfME2HIL9— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 15, 2020
***The HHS spokesman in question here is Michael Caputo, errand boy for Roger Stone, so you can rest assured that this is all above board and your government is in no way involved in a scheme of graft and disinformation. https://t.co/V38YviGd9L— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) July 15, 2020
The Trump administration has ordered all US hospitals to send coronavirus patient information to a central database under the control of the Department of Health and Human Services, bypassing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This will give Trump full control over what is publicly known about the spread of the virus.
To make sure his orders are obeyed, Trump will be asking governors to "consider" allowing the National Guard to patrol hospitals to "help improve data collection".
The New York Times reports:
The move has alarmed health experts who fear the data will be politicized or withheld from the public.Donald Trump has desperately wanted low numbers of cases and deaths since February and he downplayed the risks and early spread of the virus until it was impossible to hide any longer. Then he simply kept repeating the virus would magically "go away" on its own and better, healthier days were right around the corner - while actively interfering with states' efforts to save lives.
The new instructions were posted recently in a little-noticed document on the Department of Health and Human Services website. From now on, the department — not the C.D.C. — will collect daily reports about the patients that each hospital is treating, the number of available beds and ventilators, and other information vital to tracking the pandemic. ...
[T]he Health and Human Services database that will receive new information is not open to the public, which could affect the work of scores of researchers, modelers and health officials who rely on C.D.C. data to make projections and crucial decisions. ...
Public health experts have long expressed concerns that the Trump administration is politicizing science and undermining its health experts, in particular the C.D.C.; four of the agency’s former directors, spanning both Republican and Democratic administrations, said as much in an opinion piece published Tuesday in The Washington Post. The data collection shift reinforced those fears.
Trump has repeatedly criticized the press for its factual reports on the extent of the pandemic, which is currently raging out of control through most of the United States. It looks like Trump will finally get his wish, as all data will be sent through HHS's political filter. Trump will control what information gets released and what information stays hidden.
Trump does not care how many people get sick or how many people die. His recent rallies (Tulsa, Arizona, Mount Rushmore) reveal his sadistic desire for more people to get infected. Trump is concerned only with making himself look good during this pandemic, so he will do anything to create the appearance that everything is under control. We should soon be hearing the "good news" that the number of new cases is dropping and there have been far fewer deaths. (There already have been credible reports that several states (such as Florida and Texas) are grossly under-reporting the extent of the crisis.)
Nearly half the states in the US (23) are reporting more deaths each day than they were two weeks ago. There were more than 65,000 new cases yesterday, the second-highest daily total of the pandemic. California, Texas, Missouri, Nevada, and Oklahoma all set single-day case records on Tuesday. Three other states, Florida, Alabama and Utah, set single-day death records, and Oregon matched its high-mark in deaths. Florida is the world's latest hotspot. In the last month (since June 11), the average number of daily cases has grown eightfold.
Hospital morgues in Texas and Arizona are nearing capacity and more than a dozen refrigerated morgue trucks (known as "mortuary-support trailers") are en route. It's clear that states learned nothing (and did nothing in preparation) from the hell that New York City went through in April, when 45 mobile morgues were set up around the city.
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Trump is running a campaign about how his opponent has lost his mind while himself delivering disjointed monologues filled with made-up stories, absurd boasts, petty grievances and verbal stumbles. https://t.co/bsgojoRM5e— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 15, 2020
I’m only part of the way through the transcript of the president’s Rose Garden ramble-speech today.— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 15, 2020
I’ve counted 19 false or misleading claims.
The preliminary list: https://t.co/I5arbkZvJv
Check Daniel Dale's Twitter feed for individual tweets of each lie, including:Fact check: President Trump makes at least 19 false or misleading claims in wild anti-Biden monologue https://t.co/eDlcZCOs6Q pic.twitter.com/lHTQMFtCln— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 15, 2020
"But The Confederate Flag Is A Reminder Of Slavery."Just had to fact check whether the Democratic presidential candidate is proposing to abolish windows— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 15, 2020
(He is not)
"Well, People Love It."
CBS says it pressed Trump if he gets why the Confed flag "is a painful symbol" for many, since "it's a reminder of slavery."— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 14, 2020
CBS says Trump responded, "Well, people love it and I don't view — I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not thinking about slavery."
Asked why "African Americans are still dying at the hands of law enforcement," President Trump tells CBS, "So are white people. So are white people. What a terrible question to ask. So are white people. More white people, by the way. More white people." https://t.co/vvyBQyk9kW— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) July 14, 2020
Stop Testing For Death!Trump defended the St. Louis couple that pulled guns on marchers, claiming with no basis: "They were going to be beat up badly - if they were lucky, OK? If they were lucky. They were gonna be beat up badly and the house was going to be totally ransacked and probably burned down."— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 14, 2020
CDC Director Robert Redfield: “I do think the fall and the winter of 2020 and 2021 are going to be the probably one of the most difficult times that we experienced in American public health.”— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 14, 2020
This event is another data point as to why Trump aides have been keeping him from doing briefings. He can’t even stay on the topic of Hong Kong. It’s just a grievance session.— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 14, 2020
Trump is now literally unloading an oppo dump on Biden from the Rose Garden. He’s reading aloud from a list of recent Biden alleged atrocities that he said he just asked his staff to prepare for him.— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) July 14, 2020
Trump ends a over hour long Rose Garden event mostly attacking Biden by saying "we'll be having more of these conferences," suggesting this will be the strategy moving forward— Will Steakin (@wsteaks) July 14, 2020
Trump: I saved millions of lives by shutting things down— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) July 14, 2020
Also Trump: We are going to lose millions of lives if we don’t open things back up
The only reason you're seeing so many deaths is because there's so much testing for death. If you stopped testing for death there's be less death. What part of that aren't you people getting?— JenAndTheGirls (@2madcavs) July 15, 2020
"Exciting new opportunities in...operating mobile morgue units. Turn the page on your unfulfilling career by...holding a dying person's tablet as they deliver a remote farewell to loved ones. It's a whole new world..." https://t.co/iXOgw82JhS— colson whitehead (@colsonwhitehead) July 14, 2020
Black Beans Matter"Don't think of it as a policy failure with a body count, seize upon it as a chance to build a new brand digging mass graves. The long-term effects of infection are unknown - have you considered the growing field of chronic care management? It's a whole new world..." https://t.co/yrIqaIAexd— colson whitehead (@colsonwhitehead) July 14, 2020
Ivanka Trump announced a White House-backed ad campaign that encourages people who are unemployed due to the coronavirus to “find something new.— Harry Wilson (@HarryWilson54) July 15, 2020
139,143 need no apply pic.twitter.com/BBhL4mAt1N
We now interrupt this program with a food product endorsement from a senior advisor to the president of the United States who also happens to be his daughter. https://t.co/omjW2nEASy— Sven Henrich (@NorthmanTrader) July 15, 2020
Look at Ivanka Trump violating the Hatch Act #HatchAct pic.twitter.com/r1PBLShNAl— Dorian Kantor (@DorianKantor) July 15, 2020
— ₳Ⱡ₱Ⱨ₳ Ӿ. (@PeregrineSecure) July 15, 2020
— Fiona Adorno💧 (@FionaAdorno) July 15, 2020
And here comes Ivanka with the next item for bid on The Price is Right #TrumpIsUnwell pic.twitter.com/zGOHK3p0ov— Satan (@RealS8nn) July 15, 2020
— personal chef to ANTIFA (@vicsepulveda) July 15, 2020
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