Coronavirus stats 4/24/20

Technically, the United States has one-quarter of the world's deaths from covid-19 despite 4% of the world's population. But any glance at the numbers indicates that China, Russia and Brazil are suppressing/undercounting their actual death tolls. So not a reliable statistic.
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) April 25, 2020

Should we trust those conclusions?
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) April 24, 2020

1 in 57 people in New York City have tested positive for coronavirus, 1 in 221 people in New York City have been hospitalized for coronavirus, and 1 in 530 people in New York City have died from coronavirus, according to data from the city and the US Census Bureau.
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) April 24, 2020

Trump’s attack on the Post Office

Raising rates is a poor idea when so many people are suffering economically. Trump is just mad at Jeff Bezos, the head of Amazon.com who also owns the Washington Post. In the past, presidents haven’t meddled in post office rates but everything is political to Trump.

Killing USPS would also eliminate mail-in voting which Trump opposes. Republicans want to make it harder to vote to preserve their power. They also want to privatize it but don’t understand or care that businesses would not want to take on money-losing routes.

Trump wants to quadruple package delivery prices when it’s basically the only way people can buy things. It’s as insane and petty as it sounds and is essentially a massive tax hike on everybody.

"The Post office should raise the price [of package delivery] four times.” https://t.co/mukXxbAqgZ
— Jesse Lee (@JesseCharlesLee) April 24, 2020

“The postal service is a joke,” Trump says
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) April 24, 2020

Trump's new attack on the post office is deeply perverse. It will probably hurt most in rural areas that supported him, where people rely on it most. And his motive, as always, has nothing to do with the public interest.

New from @paulwaldman1 and me:https://t.co/CdVNLj8A4N
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) April 24, 2020

Trump may think the Post Office is a “joke” but receiving lifesaving medicines in the mail is no laughing matter to America’s patients. #SaveTheUSPS #VoteHimAway

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— Christine Pelosi (@sfpelosi) April 24, 2020

"If they don't raise the price [of their services], I'm not signing anything" — barely two hours ago Trump said he was willing to let the Post Office fail https://t.co/FQbYdgNQ20
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2020

Strange that Trump didn’t have such hatred for the Post Office before mail-in voting emerged as the one option that could ensure a free and fair election this November 🤔 https://t.co/8W56M3aRbO
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2020

Trump has long tried to thwart Amazon. The coronavirus gives him another opportunity. https://t.co/UMERNHr1TI
— Slate (@Slate) April 24, 2020

Trump owes money to China

This is a conflict of interest that is affecting US foreign policy.

THREAD

The news that Trump is in deep debt to a state-owned bank in China — a bill that comes due during the next president’s term — sheds some light on a seeming puzzle: why does Trump keep praising China's leader as the COVID-19 pandemic gets worse?https://t.co/pUwy5TFrHh
— Jeffrey Prescott (@jeffreyprescott) April 24, 2020

Coronavirus poll update 4/24

Americans are largely unimpressed with Pres. Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. @FiveThirtyEight crunches the numbers: https://t.co/IHS5VpB1Lg
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) April 24, 2020

NEW @AP poll: Just 28% of Americans say they’re regularly looking to President Donald Trump for information about the coronavirus pandemic and only 23% say they have high levels of trust in what the president is telling the public.https://t.co/DLhAEuMOCw
— Julie Pace (@jpaceDC) April 23, 2020

This is quite a testament to @realDonaldTrump’s failure of leadership. If he got this kind of score in any virtually other management job, he’d immediately be sacked. https://t.co/LAkUQ6sqHL
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 23, 2020

New @AP poll on social distancing mandates > pic.twitter.com/0GayilV64C
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) April 22, 2020

Morning Consult poll:

Only 14% say Americans should stop social distancing to stimulate the economy even if it means increasing the spread of the virus.

76% say Americans should continue to social distance for as long as necessary, even if it means continued economic damage.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 22, 2020

Fifty-eight percent say they are more worried about stopping the virus' spread, while 32 percent are more concerned with the economic fallout, a new NBC News/WSJ poll shows.https://t.co/jcJQ6THvWk
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) April 22, 2020

Randy Newman’s quarantine song

A performance video and interview with Randy Newman

Trump puts cadets at risk

This is so narcissistic! It’s all about Trump always!

Trump is putting West Point grads at risk for a campaign commercial. That pretty much sums up the deep disrespect he has for the service he dodged. https://t.co/duyGF3ZXkY
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) April 24, 2020

Trump never stops lying

Michelle Obama did not go to Georgia to campaign for Stacey Abrams. Trump has said this repeatedly. He keeps adding her to the list with Oprah and Barack Obama. It just didn't happen.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 22, 2020

MSNBC spokesperson tells me this is not true.

CNN spokesperson says, "This is completely untrue. CNN is not on a delay." https://t.co/aBdWikZjRU
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) April 22, 2020

Fact check: President Trump claims the U.S. is testing "more people than anybody anywhere." https://t.co/9GHwSNXFFL
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 21, 2020

Trump: "I've watched some of the protests — not in great detail," and they're "separated…a lot of space in between." Some groups have been spread out, some very much have not.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 21, 2020

Trump: Our "mortality rate remains roughly 1/2 that of many other countries and one of the lowest of any country in the world."

Per Johns Hopkins, we are far below the most hard-hit countries like Spain, UK, Italy. But overall, most countries are lower.https://t.co/V0lX0EfGlw
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) April 21, 2020

Trump lies, claims US has done more testing than all other countries combined (that's not true) pic.twitter.com/8rQestoXkI
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 21, 2020

The president was told that he had a campaign rally last month. He responded that he hasn’t left the White House in months except for one non-rally.

The utter shamelessness of his dishonesty was on display again tonight. Latest briefing fact check: https://t.co/5by3ANibUw
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 21, 2020

Watch: Trump denies saying things he previously said about the coronavirus https://t.co/Nov4SbSc0D pic.twitter.com/UBZ39trBmU
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 21, 2020

It’s not really been remarked on enough that governors are regularly recording their calls with the president and other admin officials because they know Trump is going to lie about them and they need proof. This is not a normal thing. https://t.co/WuYDf5lPUi
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) April 21, 2020

Fact check: President Trump falsely claims he hasn't left the White House in "months" at a briefing with more inaccuracies https://t.co/diYjfvAYtj pic.twitter.com/5SR2bjRr1U
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) April 21, 2020

Trump's evolving exaggeration of what Pelosi said in San Francisco Chinatown in late February is a good little example of how he operates with dishonesty. 1/
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 21, 2020

Trump repeats the most boring of his favorite false claims, the one about how there used to be a trade deficit of $500 billion with China, even up to $550 billion. (He adds that this money came "out of our hides.") There has never once been a $500 billion deficit with China.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 20, 2020

Missed this when I was off Friday: Trump said, again, that "175,000 people showed up" for his 9,000-capacity rally in Wildwood, NJ.

7,725 attended the rally. Spokesman for the local tourism authority says between 5,000 and 6,000 people were in the park and parking lot outside.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 20, 2020

No, it’s not easy to get reagents.
No, Trump didn’t “inherit” bad coronavirus tests.
No, Trump didn’t fully “ban” travel from China, Europe.
No, all the protesters weren’t six feet apart.
Yes, people foresaw this kind of crisis.

Fact check on tonight: https://t.co/7gOLifk4Rt
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 20, 2020

Trump makes sure to mention that he owns a hotel in Las Vegas and then falsely claims he's "not involved" in it (he still owns and profits from it) pic.twitter.com/0w7RLdX4de
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 19, 2020

Lying about we can all see with our own eyes… https://t.co/gD74C1a9yZ
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) April 19, 2020

Some Wisconsin voters got the coronavirus

It was a bad decision by Wisconsin Republicans to have in-person voting. People will get sick and die.

This is all on the Wisconsin GOP, the conservatives on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and the conservatives on the US Supreme Court. Bastards, all of them. https://t.co/Lj9I9bn7Mq
— Markos Moulitsas (@markos) April 25, 2020

7 people appear to have contracted the coronavirus through activities related to the April 7 election in Wisconsin, Milwaukee’s health commissioner says. https://t.co/rXgGilmRd4
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 21, 2020

Milwaukee health officials said they had identified at least seven people who contracted the coronavirus from participating in Election Day on April 7, which was held despite a stay-at-home order issued throughout the state https://t.co/wImVSen9If
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) April 22, 2020

Exercising your right to vote should not mean risking your life. https://t.co/L08GfJIe9e
— Katie Hill (@KatieHill4CA) April 22, 2020

Seven confirmed COVID-19 cases linked to Wisconsin's April elections https://t.co/9jPtngSIRt pic.twitter.com/nEdC6zycz7
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 22, 2020

NEWS –> "Former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders will help track the health of Wisconsin voters who cast ballots in person on April 7 as part of a new project launched by a liberal group seeking to change the makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court." https://t.co/24bg9JxLeP
— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) May 8, 2020

Trump was wrong to push Hydroxychloroquine

He’s just a carny barker, a snake oil salesman. Listen to doctors, not liars.

Trump's embrace of injecting disinfectants shouldn't distract from his almost-40-day campaign to promote a drug that's now the focus of a formal FDA warning. Here's what he said about hydroxychloroquine, day by day. https://t.co/Vp9ycYDltT
— Philip Bump (@pbump) April 24, 2020

How false hope spread about hydroxychloroquine to treat covid-19 — and the consequences that followed https://t.co/SyBvd3tHSG
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) May 5, 2020

And now thishttps://t.co/JlJHyXvBZo https://t.co/ANCj74DmaY
— Sam Stein (@samstein) April 21, 2020

Fox News heavily promoted the use of this drug — nearly 300 times in a two week period https://t.co/nK7HFnXGzw

You can find a comprehensive guide of how Fox News hyped this drug and brought it to Trump’s attention here: https://t.co/nBc7oT0BqW https://t.co/xJfmSTAPre
— Lis Power (@LisPower1) April 21, 2020

After recklessly, repeatedly promoting hydroxycholoroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 based on his hunch and fed by a right wing meme, @realDonaldTrump suddenly has dropped it from his daily riffs.
Maybe this is why.
New VA study: more deaths; no benefit.https://t.co/LS87Ju9NJT
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) April 21, 2020

Via the @AP: A malaria drug widely touted by President Trump for treating the coronavirus showed no benefit in a large analysis of its use in U.S. veterans hospitals. There were more deaths among those given hydroxychloroquine versus standard care. https://t.co/D2PR3ekSLP
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) April 21, 2020

Hydroxychloroquine, long touted by President Trump, is of no use treating Covid-19 and actually causes more deaths than standard care, per a large new study. https://t.co/eCpEH9DGS0
— Ben White (@morningmoneyben) April 21, 2020

This was a key moment.@JDiamond1 asked the lead scientist on the WH coronavirus task force, Dr. Fauci, to weigh in on the president repeatedly telling people to take hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus & Trump lashed out at Jeremy & said Dr. Fauci doesn't have to answer that Q. https://t.co/Q9smR8OGfn
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) April 6, 2020

President Trump and his allies in conservative media have subtly scaled down their hyping of hydroxychloroquine as a potential cure for the coronavirus over the past week, according to a POLITICO review of White House briefings and cable news coverage https://t.co/rzm3HKgL0c
— POLITICO (@politico) April 20, 2020

A New York woman with coronavirus symptoms died earlier this month after being prescribed drugs President Trump has promoted to treat the coronavirus, despite warnings from major medical organizations about potential cardiac effects. (1/8) #NBCNewsThreads https://t.co/ATQFilX3iP
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 20, 2020

A Texas doctor used his GOP connections to get hydroxychloroquine to administer to dozens of elderly patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in what he calls an "observational study."

In some cases, he didn't discuss with families before prescribing the drug.https://t.co/w5ay1UYE7v
— NPR (@NPR) April 11, 2020

Mayo Clinic cardiologist: 'Inexcusable' to ignore hydroxychloroquine side effects https://t.co/9Ht9p8ktct via @nbcnews
— Heidi Przybyla (@HeidiNBC) April 7, 2020

Trump reportedly has a “small financial interest” in the drugmaker of an anti-malarial drug that he has been touting as a “game changer” in treating coronavirus https://t.co/RgiTlkNO7Z
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 7, 2020

#KamalaHarris is right, "We don't want a drug pusher for president." More studies are refuting Trump's unscientific claims about hydroxychloroquine treating #COVID19. Instead of using sick vets & nursing home patients as guinea pigs, let's find a real curepic.twitter.com/aghHg9S9Kj https://t.co/WkowIOH2SE
— BlackWomenViews (@blackwomenviews) April 21, 2020

Coronavirus patients taking hydroxychloroquine, a treatment touted by President Trump, were no less likely to need mechanical ventilation and had higher deaths rates compared to those who did not take the drug, according to a new study https://t.co/8m0P9mhLEj
— CNN (@CNN) April 21, 2020

One recent hydroxychloroquine study yielded no benefit for coronavirus patients, and was in fact, more deadly.

"Much higher death rates," reports @elizcohencnn. "Actually more than twice the death rate. And this was a lot of patients. This is a very large trial." pic.twitter.com/U7F2XvsYj0
— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) April 21, 2020

Trump’s attacks on the WHO are working

NEW: @realDonaldTrump's attacks on the @WHO are working.

Since the beginning of April, net approval for the organization fell 29 points — including a 56-point drop among Republican voters. https://t.co/YfQ3a5aOqv pic.twitter.com/hFE8MqIqT4
— Eli Yokley (@eyokley) April 21, 2020