Polls on the coronavirus

NEW from Gallup:
Conservative only vs. liberal only "news media diet"
-57% vs 28% blv COVID no more deadly than flu. (FALSE)
-71% vs 28% blv media paying too much atten.
-94% vs 11% blv Trump doing great job.

conserv: Fox, Breitbart, OAN, Nat Review
liberal: MSNBC, NYT, CNN, Vox
— Heidi Przybyla (@HeidiNBC) April 9, 2020

CNN poll:

Non-college white approval on Trump’s handling of coronavirus: 62%

College white disapproval on Trump’s handling of coronavirus: 63%https://t.co/kQ80tHOta8
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) April 8, 2020

Share of American voters leaving their homes and going out as usual via new Quinnipiac poll:

2% women
2% white women
2% suburban
2% Democrats
3% Hispanic
4% black
5% white
5% independents
5% city
7% rural
7% Republicans
8% men
9% white men
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) April 8, 2020

Trump’s worst nightmare is Republican voters turning against him. It’s happening. pic.twitter.com/WMUQlv9fcG
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) April 7, 2020

One of the big things that Democrats and Republicans disagree about is what's more worrisome: the health or economic impacts of the coronavirus. 77% of Democrats are more worried about health; 69% of Republicans are more worried about jobs & the economy. (14/?)
— Drew Linzer (@DrewLinzer) March 31, 2020

Democrats and Republicans are also divided on the news media. Democrats think the media is giving an accurate picture (64%) or even under-reporting the outbreak (15%). Republicans overwhelmingly believe (71%) that the media is making the outbreak sound worse than it is. (15/?)
— Drew Linzer (@DrewLinzer) March 31, 2020

Democrats, Republicans, and Independents agree: The coronavirus is a real threat, not blown out of proportion. Even so, there is still a big partisan divide.

Percent saying "real threat" by party:
Democrats: 94%
Republicans: 51%
Independents: 73%

(9/?)
— Drew Linzer (@DrewLinzer) March 31, 2020

In sum, more than half of US households (54%) have either lost work or had hours cut (26%), or are insecure/at risk: 28% are extremely or moderately concerned about the financial impact of coronavirus on their household. (7/?)
— Drew Linzer (@DrewLinzer) March 31, 2020

CNN Poll: Americans are divided over government handling of the coronavirus outbreak https://t.co/em713GGR5r pic.twitter.com/wcRqUv5Fk1
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 30, 2020

Share of Americans (by age) who say coronavirus is a major threat to their personal health:

18-29: 27%
30-49: 31%
50-64: 40%
65+: 47%https://t.co/9Kp4ckqcnX pic.twitter.com/PghBsOH1Rs
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) March 29, 2020

this should spur some reflection among business/opinion elites who have been voicing the 11% view in something of an echo chamberhttps://t.co/epxMzcgPAs
— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) March 27, 2020

New polling on media attention and #covid-19 from YouGov and The Economist:

% who say they are worried about the virus, by media they most pay attention to:

MSNBC: 74%
National newspapers (NYT/WaPo): 72
CNN: 71
Broadcast news: 68
Local news: 57
Radio: 49
Fox News: 38
— G. Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) March 18, 2020

America has officially gone berserk.
Concern about #COVID19 is now partisan: Democrats fear the #pandemic, Republicans think the #coronavirus is no big deal.
This is not science.
This is "belief" – as in, "I believe it's ok right now to party hearty at a beach kegger." pic.twitter.com/7bYt8tfFqH
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) March 27, 2020

Navigating Coronavirus: State and local governments are more trusted on the pandemic response than President Trump and the federal government (@NavigatorSurvey) Details: https://t.co/MVgemGFly1 pic.twitter.com/V1MVW5OccG
— OpinionToday.com (@OpinionToday) March 28, 2020

75% of Democrats view the coronavirus outbreak as a significant crisis for the country. 58% of Republicans say the same. https://t.co/dbk64MdHoa pic.twitter.com/smAbzrJrKV
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) March 29, 2020

Uneven coronavirus spread leads to uneven partisan response (@Dchinni @chucktodd) Details: https://t.co/qrcfPE1FbY pic.twitter.com/dpsFHfxDe4
— OpinionToday.com (@OpinionToday) March 29, 2020

Partisanship, gender, and age are among the most important factors when it comes to peoples' attitudes toward social distancing measures

Younger, Rep men tend to be the most likely to say they would feel comfortable engaging in a range of activitieshttps://t.co/LhHlGsmuhZ pic.twitter.com/Uu3or5K8IF
— Brad Jones (@B_radJ_ones) April 7, 2020

Covers: Superman

R.E.M. covered the obscure 1969 song “Superman” on their Lifes Rich Pageant album. I know 1960s music well and I had never heard of the band or song. Their version closely tracks the original one.

Majority of Americans don’t trust what Trump says about the virus

I don’t trust him. He’s a liar.

New NPR/PBS/Marist poll re: virus: "Just 37% of Americans now say they had a good amount or a great deal of trust in what they're hearing from the president, while 60% say they had not very much or no trust at all in what he's saying." https://t.co/rlWaN6wTF5
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 17, 2020

Trump's magical lies are failing.

New NPR poll finds only 37% trust what Trump says about coronavirus — while 50% trust what the media says about it.

The megalomaniacal prioritizing of protecting Trump above all else isn't working.

New piece:https://t.co/IN4MtGvCd8
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 17, 2020

Trump reportedly tried to bribe Germans to get a vaccine

This is an extremely important story, not least because of the way it was originally reported: That the US is trying to steal Germany's vaccine industry, and hoard the results for itself https://t.co/M1fb5o22vq
— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) March 16, 2020

German officials to discuss reported U.S. attempt to buy exclusive rights to coronavirus vaccine https://t.co/bkw4dbjpUh
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 16, 2020

Trump tried to poach German scientists working on a cure for coronavirus and offered cash so the vaccine would be exclusive to the USA https://t.co/BOriyRJdn5
— Business Insider (@businessinsider) March 15, 2020

Germany's health ministry is confirming this bombshell story from German media outlet @welt https://t.co/h1rgaNGn9b pic.twitter.com/iJqqIhpgNn
— Aman Batheja (@amanbatheja) March 15, 2020

Somewhere out in Rube Nation, there's a guy who thinks this was a stroke of genius and is going to bitch that the only problem is that some European journo panty-waist blew the whistle. https://t.co/Ov5ElQTvJC
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 15, 2020

Trump has offered big money to German medical company for exclusive access to a Covid-19 vaccine, German media report.

German government fighting off what it sees as aggressive takeover bid by the US.

Trump brain: MAGA by making other nations more vulnerable to coronavirus.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) March 15, 2020

The Trump admin has offered a German medical company "large sums of money" for exclusive access to a Covid-19 vaccine, German media have reported.

Trump had offered CureVac "large sums of money" to gain exclusive access to their work, wrote Die Welt. https://t.co/l0QHw0OgYG
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 15, 2020

German government is trying to stop the US government from persuading a German company seeking a coronavirus vaccine to move its research to the US, prompting German politicians to insist no country should have a monopoly on any future vaccine. https://t.co/RUApx6WI7M
— NBC News Business (@NBCNewsBusiness) March 15, 2020

Trump fired the pandemic team in 2018

Of course, he claimed he wasn’t involved. He’s a liar.

Updated my piece to note that at least 5 Democrats – @SenWarren @PattyMurray @SenSherrodBrown @GerryConnolly and @RepBera – wrote to the Trump White House in 2018 to warn that disbanding the NSC pandemic preparedness team was dangerous https://t.co/Wd2FXoIwlX
— Robert Mackey (@RobertMackey) April 2, 2020

White House economists projected *last September* that a pandemic in the United States could kill 500k and inflict up to $4T in damage to the economy.

They warned policymakers against conflating those risks with the cost of the common flu. https://t.co/NMprcaufeH
— Jim Tankersley (@jimtankersley) March 31, 2020

NEW: Two months before the novel coronavirus likely began spreading in Wuhan, the Trump administration ended a $200-million program aimed at detecting — well, novel coronaviruses. The staff had been working with the lab in — well, Wuhan. w/ @RaineyTime https://t.co/N9LsMS3eN3
— Emily Baumgaertner (@Emily_Baum) April 3, 2020

Again, the playbook was called “PLAYBOOK FOR EARLY RESPONSE TO HIGH-CONSEQUENCE EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASE THREATS AND BIOLOGICAL INCIDENTS.”https://t.co/7TPjzPxMPT
— subscribe to my newsletter (@brianbeutler) March 26, 2020

We knew it could happen.

We knew it *would* eventually happen.

So:

We left them a playbook.

We left them an expert NSC team.

We built a transition exercise around it.

We built new programs to prepare for it.

They ignored/closed/undermined all of that.

This is horseshit. https://t.co/fAAU4IENM0
— Jeremy THANK YOU HEALTH HEROES Konyndyk (@JeremyKonyndyk) March 26, 2020

Here's the full 69-page, step-by-step playbook on how to manage a pandemic. It was handed to Trump's team at a Jan. 2017 tabletop exercise with outgoing Obama officials.

Based on two wasted months of Trump downplaying the crisis, it's pretty obvious no one paid attention to this https://t.co/dhfFvSDWSN
— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) March 26, 2020

Trump claimed he knew nothing about WH disbanding pandemic team.
But video shows he did:
“Some of the people we’ve cut they haven’t been used for many, many years and if we ever need them we can get them very quickly and rather than spending the money”. https://t.co/HUGLmEnXIX
— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) March 17, 2020

There might be an explanation for why disbanding the pandemic unit wasn't unwise. But the president declines to give it and instead goes to name-calling at the questioner. Then some of his supporters get mad at reporters for asking the question https://t.co/TKnvSQrMeG
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 14, 2020

Two years ago, President Trump fired the entire global health security team at the White House. Their job?

Managing pandemics.

Now we're all paying the price for President Trump's decisions. pic.twitter.com/TiXVOnRGLa
— Sherrod Brown (@SenSherrodBrown) March 13, 2020

This wasn’t a nasty letter. But it was a prescient one. https://t.co/WtES5nJf6R
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) March 13, 2020

“I ran the White House pandemic office. Trump closed it.” — ⁦@BethCameron_DC⁩ https://t.co/4wAhgubzQJ
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) March 13, 2020

If you wanna know what @Yamiche was asking about, here's Trump ADMITTING to cutting the Pandemic Response Team in 2018. #NastyQuestion pic.twitter.com/TVdoXiutoA
— Jeffrey Lieber (@JeffLieber) March 13, 2020

Smart thread by @MSNBC on what happened to the disbanded White House pandemic office in 2018. https://t.co/soQmhCNMI0
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) March 13, 2020

President trump didn't take responsibility for his decision to disband the White House pandemic team…..once again he pleaded ignorance as a defensepic.twitter.com/bSQS6vr7Qf
— PoliticsVideoChannel (@politvidchannel) March 13, 2020

May 2018 https://t.co/RWCTO6YVy0
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) March 13, 2020

The facts about the disbanding of Trump White House office on pandemics courtesy of @KenDilanianNBC https://t.co/rOLay7zo4c
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) March 13, 2020

There might be an explanation for why disbanding the pandemic unit wasn't unwise. But the president declines to give it and instead goes to name-calling at the questioner. Then some of his supporters get mad at reporters for asking the question https://t.co/TKnvSQrMeG
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 14, 2020

SCOOP: The Department of Homeland Security stopped updating its annual models of the havoc that pandemics would wreak on America’s critical infrastructure in 2017. @dlippman's latest: https://t.co/De6gzifP4f
— POLITICO Press (@POLITICOPress) March 25, 2020

Trump is calling it a false story that he disbanded the NSC team responsible for global pandemics in 2018.

John Roberts from Fox News was the one who brought it up.

It is not a false story. It happened.

Trump can’t rewrite history and manipulate objective reality with words.
— Ahmed Baba (@AhmedBaba_) April 1, 2020

In addition to Warren and Patty Murray, Sen. Sherrod Brown also sent a letter to the White House on the reports of the disbanding of the pandemic unit on the NSC.

And Democratic Congressmen Ami Bera and Gerald Connoll who cited the 100th anniversary of the Spanish Flu. pic.twitter.com/AXY4xZFbZh
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) April 2, 2020

This has some very strong "Bin Laden determined to strike in US" energy. h/t @chrislhayes pic.twitter.com/VhstU9Ss86
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) April 3, 2020

Trump lies about the readiness of the Google web site

Lie, exaggerate – either one will do. He was not truthful at a time when we need facts. I assume he did this to get the stock market to rise.

"I don't know where the press got their fake news," says Trump, who falsely claimed on Friday Google had 1700 engineers working on a nationwide website that would be ready quickly. Then he suggested he wants an apology. Then on to listing heads of corporations.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 15, 2020

False.

Media outlets contacted Google. Google said sister company Verily was in the "early stages" of developing a website for the Bay Area in particular. *More than 24 hours later,* Google changed its tune and said it is working with the federal government on a national site. pic.twitter.com/NdJmF34SmB
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 15, 2020

The news media has been trying to report on the spread of the coronavirus. The president is flatly wrong below and he's trying to increase mistrust in the media during a health crisis. https://t.co/qrPUdw3vO8
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 15, 2020

The Trump administration is lying to the country about the current scope of Google's coronavirus screening website. pic.twitter.com/gLF3NTOyl5
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 14, 2020

Among Trump’s most brazen lies was the whopper he told the nation about Google’s supposed plans for an all-purpose Coronavirus website. He just made the whole thing up as if nobody would bother checking — and as if he knew his credibility was zero anyway https://t.co/kf8s9SVFju
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) March 14, 2020

OMG. Google's not making a nationwide coronavirus testing website. And the company had no idea the president would say it was. https://t.co/pkybAdYFGw
— Nicholas Thompson (@nxthompson) March 14, 2020

One of the biggest stories out of today's news conference is that, once again, Trump misinformed the public in the midst of a crisis… https://t.co/7uexv1EkKS
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 14, 2020

Trump said Google is building a website to determine whether people need tests for COVID-19 and that "Google has 1700 engineers working on this right now." Google said its Verily life sciences unit is "in the early stages of development" on such a tool.https://t.co/PXHu0wl7El
— Axios (@axios) March 13, 2020

Update: contrary to Trump’s claim, Google is not building a nationwide coronavirus screening website https://t.co/3gNj7bghMk pic.twitter.com/xeyqnHHGD6
— The Verge (@verge) March 13, 2020

oh man. sounds like Google thinks Trump and the White House overpromised on the testing portal website. “early stages of development” https://t.co/yIe5UNfcZj
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) March 13, 2020

From a Google employee just now: "There's absolutely not 1,700 engineers at Verily." https://t.co/RnoUyM2Ab6
— Blake Montgomery (@blakersdozen) March 13, 2020

From a new release by the White House press secretary:

"The Administration is working with Google to develop a website Americans can go to determine whether a test is needed and, if so, facilitate testing at a nearby location."
— David Gura (@davidgura) March 13, 2020

President Trump appeared to raise eyebrows when he said that Google was working on a website that would help the public “determine whether a [coronavirus] test is warranted”—a tool which Google clarified is still “in the very early stages of development” https://t.co/CfS4AvYaV4
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 13, 2020

Trump said the whole system will be up and running by Sunday night. Now, it turns out, it’s a pilot program for just the Bay Area? This is crazy. And he had the audacity to take a jab at the ACA website. Is this just another Trump con? https://t.co/9arthZSdGl
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) March 14, 2020

Covers: How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?

I first heard “How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?” on Ry Cooder’s 1970 album. The original version was by Blind Alfred Reed from 1929. Cooder’s early albums contain several Depression-era songs. They were no longer well-known when he recorded them so it was great that he gave them new life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8mOF332uwQ

Trump lies about Obama and the H1N1 virus

Trump lies in his attacks on Obama. Even if he was telling the truth, I don’t see how this helps solve the current crisis.

Trump attacks the Obama administration for their handling of the swine flu — as if that excuses his government's failures with respect to the coronavirus pandemic pic.twitter.com/XaChdLDQLK
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 13, 2020

Trump, bashing the Obama administration again, falsely claims that, with H1N1, "They didn't do testing like this" and that they didn't do testing until "far too late." The H1N1 testing numbers were exponentially higher.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 13, 2020

Another idiotic comment by ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩.

Trump Ties Obama to C.D.C.’s ‘Inadequate’ Testing System https://t.co/DbsfqFkgxt
— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) March 13, 2020

1. Trump fired the pandemic response unit created by Obama after Ebola.

2. Trump cut CDC funding

3. During H1N1, 1 million people were tested within a month of the first diagnosis.

4. Stop Tweeting and do your job https://t.co/FnlsvzuweC
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) March 13, 2020

If the @BarackObama Administration made testing harder how did we manage to test 1 million people within the first month of the H1N1 outbreak? Why did you dismantle the White House office @BarackObama created in NSC post Embola? Why did you cut funding to CDC? Come on! https://t.co/hH7v31DdYj
— Valerie Jarrett (@ValerieJarrett) March 13, 2020

Trump now appears to be deliberately distorting the swine flu timeline in order to deflect criticism onto Obama. https://t.co/ra97ktiM7F
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) March 13, 2020

As Trump tries blaming Obama for CDC problems, let's recall:

-Every Trump budget has proposed cutting CDC's budget. His OMB chief still backs cutting $1.2 billion this year

-Trump's 2017 hiring freeze left 700 CDC positions vacant

(From May 2017👇) https://t.co/q5hO0g9flt
— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) March 13, 2020

tfw you fired the whole pandemic response team proposed huge cuts to the cdc and squandered weeks of lead time before the new infection reached the country https://t.co/Gc83MDdEUa
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 13, 2020

TRUMP LIED AGAIN: PolitiFact confirms the Obama-Biden administration declared H1N1 a public health emergency BEFORE anyone in the US died, contradicting Trump’s tweet that desperately tried to deflect from his own incompetent response to the coronavirus. https://t.co/VP5cKGaD9o
— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) March 13, 2020

Facts: The Obama administration tested 1 million people for H1N1 in the first month after the first US diagnosed case.

The first US #coronavirus case was 50+ days ago. And we haven't event tested 10,000 people yet. https://t.co/LxRH62NIDw
— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) March 13, 2020

President Trump on Friday again claimed that his response to the coronavirus was hindered by the Obama administration, which left office 3 years ago https://t.co/3UO5wk7f8X
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) March 13, 2020

Fact checking President Trump's claim on swine flu tests

Facts First: Trump is wrong. The CDC did focus on testing — conducting 5,000 tests in the first month and sending out a total of 1 million tests in the first five months of the outbreak. https://t.co/Jd3eqVjmVh
— CNN (@CNN) March 14, 2020

Temporarily leaving aside the rest: The CDC estimate is that 12,469 people died in the US from H1N1, though “17,000” is within the estimate range. And Biden was not “in charge” like Trump has put Pence; Biden was involved but not the lead, contrary to Trump’s claims/suggestions. pic.twitter.com/o4r8qtQFjA
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 15, 2020

Stocks during the Trump presidency

Most of the gains are gone. He takes credit when things are going well and takes no responsibility when they aren’t. Sad!

Goldman Sachs analyzed bear markets back to 1835, and here’s the bad news — and the good — about the current slump https://t.co/E2P2Wkr7CS
— MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) March 12, 2020

The US stock market has now wiped out the entire $11.5 trillion of value it gained since Trump's 2016 election victory https://t.co/YCRrBRvEbQ
— Business Insider (@businessinsider) March 12, 2020

dismissing Wall Street plunge today, Trump boasted: “stock market is still much higher than when i got here”

he got there Jan 20, 2017

at today’s close, Dow is up 7.4% since then

recent predecessors over same period:

Obama +56%
GWBush -3%
Clinton +71%
GHWBush +43%
Reagan +19%
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) March 12, 2020

The stock market tumbled 10 percent on Thursday in its worst percentage drop since the 1987 crash #Covid_19 https://t.co/FdVFZq7Zjc
— POLITICO (@politico) March 12, 2020

“By one measure, the sell-off has erased all of U.S. market cap gains since Election Day 2016, wiping out more than $11 trillion in value in less than one month as measured by the Russell 3000 index” https://t.co/T4CtbORXg5
— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) March 12, 2020

The drop in the stock market today was the 4th worst fall in American history.

1. Oct. 17, 1987: -22%
2. Oct. 28, 1929: -13%
3. Oct. 29, 1929: -12%
4. March 12, 2020: – 10%
5. Nov. 6, 1929: -10%
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) March 12, 2020

How to wash your hands

Washing your hands is important in preventing the coronavirus.

.@drsanjaygupta provides a hand-washing tutorial, including the importance of interlacing your fingers and also washing the back of your hands. https://t.co/SKKTecRe1d pic.twitter.com/ZeMQNDTxJe
— CNN (@CNN) March 29, 2020

Washing your hands is one of the most important things you can do to protect yourself and others from illness. Here’s the technique experts say is best. https://t.co/jrtllJWkjo pic.twitter.com/fwppWT6JHe
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 13, 2020

The best protection against coronavirus is washing your hands — but you have to do it properly:

🚿 Wet your hands

🚿 Lather, making sure to get soap in all the nooks and crannies

🚿 Scrub for *20 seconds*

🚿 Rinse and *dry thoroughly*https://t.co/yR7MZPeVEB
— CNN (@CNN) March 13, 2020

What Happens When You Don’t Wash Your Hands

This is the best demonstration of proper hand-washing that I've seen. Blue paint shows precisely the spots that we tend to miss. I think of it every time I wash.

Worth a watch. https://t.co/Q2qXxW3Os2
— Joanne Freeman (@jbf1755) March 19, 2020

While you're scrubbing your hands to help stop the spread of Covid-19, you're also killing off a host of other nasty bacteria and potentially lethal viruses that have plagued humans for centuries — including influenza and other coronaviruses. https://t.co/C7bLMgU2TK
— CNN (@CNN) March 24, 2020