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Let's leave everything else on the table. In my field, public health, @realDonaldTrump is a menace. He botched the response to COVID19. 1/ https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1643/rapid-responses
He's reached down into @NIH to target researchers on coronaviruses for his own political gain. 2/ https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/nih-imposes-outrageous-conditions-resuming-coronavirus-grant-targeted-trump
We know the story on hydroxychloroquine and now today on convalescent plasma. It doesn't matter if something works, it matter if @realDonaldTrump can sell it to the American public. 3/
He crows about the "best" healthcare but really has committed himself to gutting access to healthcare for millions of Americans. 4/ https://www.cbpp.org/sabotage-watch-tracking-efforts-to-undermine-the-aca
He LOVES to talk about lowering drug prices but his Secretary of Health and Human Services is a former Pharma CEO of a company who jacked up insulin prices leading to deaths of people who couldn't afford the drug. 5/ https://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-hhs-nominee-alex-azar-history-with-drug-pricing-at-lilly-2017-11
So put tonight's bullshit announcement on convalescent plasma in context. He's selling something that hasn't proven it actually works, because he needs a boost going into his convention. How sick is that? PR for him, false hope for the rest of us. 6/ https://www.wbur.org/npr/903982549/nih-warns-data-on-effectiveness-of-convalescent-plasma-in-treating-covid-19-is-w
He may be bad in other ways, but he is truly a public health menace. end/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/donald-trump-menace-public-health/608449/
