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THREAD: President Trump's #COVID19 response
- Failure to arm hospitals and frontline workers
- No accountability for testing failures
- Sustained maniacal focus on eliminating the ACA
- "Everything's under control" https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-04-06/us-battle-against-coronavirus-front-lines-war-room
- Failure to arm hospitals and frontline workers
- No accountability for testing failures
- Sustained maniacal focus on eliminating the ACA
- "Everything's under control" https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-04-06/us-battle-against-coronavirus-front-lines-war-room
RECEIPT: President Trump failed to heed copious warnings from public health experts and his own administration officials on the severity of the pandemic for months https://bit.ly/3aMBvQ2
RECEIPT: President Trump failed to arm hospitals and frontline health care workers with the medical and personal protective equipment they need, while states are bidding against other states for equipment and paying inflated prices. https://nbcnews.to/3e1XUL7
RECEIPT: On Feb. 5, HHS Sec. Azar requested $2 billion to buy respirator masks and other supplies for a depleted federal stockpile of emergency medical equipment. Weeks later, the White House cut that request by 75%. https://wapo.st/2Rjfe4I
RECEIPT: The President failed to take accountability for testing inadequacies: "The world’s richest country—armed with some of the most highly trained scientists & infectious disease specialists—squandered its best chance of containing the virus’s spread." https://nyti.ms/3aQ2avf
RECEIPT: President Trump refused to open a special enrollment period because of his personal vendetta against affordable health care, meaning fewer Americans have health care coverage during a pandemic. https://politi.co/2XftPBR
RECEIPT: President Trump failed to use the full power of the Defense Production Act to meet the demands and help our workers on the front lines, making up conspiracies about mask thefts instead of using the DPA to produce more. https://bit.ly/2wZq1u1
RECEIPT: President Trump moved forward with EPA rollbacks that worsen air quality. A pandemic involving a severe respiratory illness is definitely not the time to cut back on clean air protections. https://bit.ly/2XiEbBc
The pandemic isn’t President Trump’s fault, but he has left us utterly unprepared for it. Now, “The United States is on trajectory to suffer more sickness, more dying, and more economic harm from this virus than any other comparably developed country.” https://bit.ly/2JOYi1T
