Grocery stores are busier and re-opened barbershops and hair salons are seeing a rush of customers. But what about restaurants, gyms and bars?
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 29, 2020
As states start to reopen, here’s where people are going. https://t.co/1qU928UhdY
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The Trump cult still pushes hydroxychloroquine
They can’t quit even though it’s been proven to be harmful.
Trump's White House contradicting Trump's FDA on a vital health issue: https://t.co/76H3mQEZtL
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) May 28, 2020
New: Dr. Anthony Fauci tells me negative data on hydroxychloroquine is now “quite evident”.:
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) May 27, 2020
“I'm not so sure that it should be banned, but clearly the scientific data is really quite evident now about the lack of efficacy for it,” Fauci said. 1/
Trump on HCQ: "Here's my evidence: I get a lot of positive calls about it."
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) May 25, 2020
WHO on HCQ: temporarily halting a massive trial of the drug in Covid-19 patients due to safety concerns after @TheLancet published a troubling study https://t.co/4z3DlyxJKz
He tags the head of the FDA, apparently hoping that maybe this tweet from a plastic surgeon will convince the agency that the drug is safe. https://t.co/9LWjpbxW0t
— Philip Bump (@pbump) May 24, 2020
Trump is re-tweeting posts about hydroxychloroquine from a doctor who calls Obama a “spy ringleader.” Trump is tagging the FDA commissioner directly. The post calls on the FDA to get rid of safety restrictions on HCQ. More on the Trump/FDA tightrope –> https://t.co/jCNy8rtXJ6 https://t.co/feSr6kVwuw
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) May 24, 2020
Seriously ill Covid-19 patients who were treated with hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine were more likely to die or develop dangerous irregular heart rhythms, according to a large observational study published Friday in the medical journal The Lancet https://t.co/sluLCkPww6
— CNN (@CNN) May 22, 2020
– 1 in 11 patients in the control group died
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) May 22, 2020
– 1 in 6 patients treated with chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine alone died
– 1 in 5 treated with chloroquine and an antibiotic died
– 1 in 4 treated with hydroxychloroquine and an antibiotic diedhttps://t.co/mLtnZCaEWg
Fact check: President Trump falsely denies FDA warning on hydroxychloroquine, baselessly alleges political bias in study https://t.co/Oc6Q3CUJR5 pic.twitter.com/l83GcWUFYy
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) May 20, 2020
Trump asserted without evidence that a study of veterans raising alarm about the drug was “false” and an “enemy statement,” even as his own government warned that the drug should be administered for COVID-19 only in a hospital or research setting https://t.co/bgxoCMw6Wd
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) May 19, 2020
Told that the FDA warned against using hydroxychloroquine for the coronavirus outside of a hospital or clinical trial, Trump said, "No, that's not what I was told. No."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 19, 2020
That is exactly what the FDA said. https://t.co/2EAQLiwAUe pic.twitter.com/gaTbJjwJFP
Trump on a study on hydroxychloroquine he doesn't identify: "There was a false study done." He said the drug was given to people who were "old" and "ready to die" and that the people who gave them the drug were "obviously not friends of the administration."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 19, 2020
This is just bonkers.
Trump says hydroxychloroquine has gotten a bad reputation "because I am promoting it."
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) May 19, 2020
"It was a Trump enemy statement," the president says, reiterating his view that if anyone raises concerns about chloroquines and adverse health impacts, it's meant to reflect on him, not be an independently-stated assertion. https://t.co/8KUP3Qf2W6
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 19, 2020
Trump continued this afternoon to baselessly suggest that poor study results on hydroxychloroquine are the result of anti-Trump bias. He said that in "the only bad survey" (?) the drug was given to people who were "almost dead," then added, "It was a Trump enemy statement."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 19, 2020
In the 1500 words of hydroxychloroquine, this likely got lost: Trump accused the VA doctors of rigging the study because they don't like him.
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) May 18, 2020
"The only negative I've heard was the study where they gave it–was it the VA with, you know, people that aren't big Trump fans gave it."
Trump provides a two sentence summary of how GOP went from holding 43% of House seats w/more col grads than average before 2018 to 25% after: "Here's my evidence: I get a lot of positive calls about it. The only negative I've heard was the study." Open disdain for expertise https://t.co/XivQxELmDf
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) May 18, 2020
A new study — the largest of its kind — shows that hydroxychloroquine, the drug touted by President Trump, does not work against Covid-19 and could cause heart problems https://t.co/EDmUAwTd4s
— CNN (@CNN) May 18, 2020
Against the advice of his medical advisors, Trump pushed a "miracle cure" for COVID that ended up killing people. https://t.co/jSOmYfJrFT
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) May 16, 2020
A new study — the largest of its kind — shows that hydroxychloroquine, the drug touted by President Trump, does not work against Covid-19 and could cause heart problems.
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 11, 2020
The study was published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, @elizcohencnn reports
The WH is proudly announcing that we’re sending millions of pills to Brazil that our OWN FDA has now warned against.
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) May 31, 2020
Further down, it explains how the Brazilians will be doing the clinical trials on it.
So we’re using them as guinea pigs. pic.twitter.com/dJTKqqIEH7
With angry protestors on the streets in a dozen cities and scuffles with police just outside the White House, the president last night took the opportunity to share a message with the American public:
— Philip Bump (@pbump) May 30, 2020
The Dilbert guy joins Trump in endorsing a drug the FDA says is dangerous. pic.twitter.com/8h3Txm0QDl
The great mask war
The Trump cult could make people sick by ignoring science. Wearing a mask shows respect for others. Trump and his cult are selfish. This is a bad enough situation without Trump making it worse by disregarding and lying about science.
W.H.O. encourages governments to urge public to wear masks, Trump says ‘wear masks if you want.’ @drsanjaygupta reports pic.twitter.com/SMPMcFnWdJ
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) June 5, 2020
As lockdown is lifted – this is important: "if 80% of people wear a mask in public, COVID-19 transmission could be halted. Until a vaccine or a cure is discovered, cloth face masks might be the most important tool we currently have to fight the pandemic."https://t.co/F2HUlAjpL6
— Prof Alice Roberts (@theAliceRoberts) June 1, 2020
Wearing a mask has nothing to do with politics. It's about your personal safety and the safety of those around you.
— Kamala Harris (@SenKamalaHarris) May 28, 2020
Wear a mask. https://t.co/8xjmCilZyN
Should we have capitalized Great Mask War here? https://t.co/9oBLd5GtJc
— Terri Rupar (@terri_rupar) May 28, 2020
Fauci saying in March, on national TV, that "there is no reason to be walking around wearing a mask" will go down as one of the great public-health missteps in American history.
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) May 28, 2020
It takes some chutzpah to mismanage a pandemic that leaves 100,000 Americans dead and then mock your political opponent for following your own government's guidance about wearing masks https://t.co/bD5HzwisGC
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 28, 2020
A “both sides” argument for the age of Coronavirus. https://t.co/t8SdnVTcbi
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) May 28, 2020
Today I am signing an Executive Order authorizing businesses to deny entry to those who do not wear masks or face-coverings. No mask – No entry.
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) May 28, 2020
I hesitate to say this is the dumbest entry into the culture wars but this is the dumbest entry into the culture warshttps://t.co/xgk30r1ylK
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) May 28, 2020
The Trump death clock
The @TrumpDeathClock is pretty good. It provides a running estimate of the number of people who died of covid-19 because @realDonaldTrump spent weeks saying that we’d have zero cases and that the virus would miraculously disappear.https://t.co/Uw8pkIcXNf https://t.co/uDSUZ5rlXi pic.twitter.com/dVDDeEyu2v
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) May 28, 2020
The #TrumpDeathClock continues in the national discourse as the toll continues to grow. https://t.co/u7UmEdGWCO
— TrumpDeathClock (@TrumpDeathClock) May 27, 2020
There truly is no defending this level of Trump-fueled dumbness.
— CD Smith (@CDSmith63) May 23, 2020
As the Trump death clock nears 60K and the US death toll approaches 100K.
https://t.co/AYy8jN4gNu
People who don’t wear masks are potentially making other sick
The right wing has politicized this issue. Wearing a mask is common sense and helps all of us.
The mirror image of virtue signaling is vice signaling. @megangarber's latest: https://t.co/EiAe3mMuh4
— Adrienne LaFrance (@AdrienneLaF) May 28, 2020
A statement posted outside a tavern in Elgin reads: “Due to our concern for our citizens, if they feel the need to wear a mask, then they should probably stay home until it’s safe.”
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) May 27, 2020
From @KXAN_News: https://t.co/yrih5m6rWy
Donald Trump's anti-mask campaign picks up steam | Analysis by CNN's Chris Cillizza https://t.co/jCY9uZZdHJ pic.twitter.com/DM5z7CLBwq
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) May 27, 2020
Trump’s disgraceful attacks on Twitter
He’s mad because they fact-checked him on one of his thousands of lies. Twitter is better than Facebook which has done nothing. They let Trump lie all the time.
Twitter has taken the unprecedented step of adding fact-check warnings to two of President Trump’s tweets. Why did Twitter act now, and how does it decide when to use such warnings?https://t.co/mUHEhZYxOB
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 28, 2020
Your regular reminder that much of the top performing content on social media is from right-wing media. If companies like Facebook are trying to “silence conservative voices,” they’re doing an incredibly lousy job. https://t.co/SNaELVDfmK
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) May 27, 2020
Twitter grants Trump every possible exception from its rules and offers a relatively mild corrective — a link to fact checks already on Twitter — and he responds as if they had deleted his tweets and terminated his account. https://t.co/DrbXlLwlII
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) May 27, 2020
Trump's latest lies about Twitter and voter fraud aren't just deranged. They're an *abuse of power.* Trump is threatening retribution to facilitate voter suppression *and* to discourage the sharing of concrete information that could save lives. New piece:https://t.co/A9qM2Zq7RY
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) May 27, 2020
He’s going to go through some things.
— Virginia Heffernan (@page88) May 27, 2020
In which Kellyanne Conway gives marching orders to trolls to swarm, harass and shake down a private citizen in the name of free speech https://t.co/X5POj0qRbF
Trump Campaign Manager:
— Nick Jack Pappas (@Pappiness) May 27, 2020
"There are many reasons we pulled all our advertising from Twitter months ago, and clear political bias is one of them."#FactCheck: Twitter banned all political ads in 2019.
Even their response is a lie.
FWIW, the first link to a story that I see when I click on Twitter's fact-check is to The Hill, which is owned by Jimmy Finkelstein, a longtime friend of Trump's. https://t.co/Qt8RMvf49v
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) May 26, 2020
I saw your threat just now.
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) May 26, 2020
What are you going to do to punish @Twitter for simply warning its users that you're lying?
Tell everyone. We're listening. https://t.co/iyRasCr4D2
Twitter is like Susan Collins. https://t.co/lx2Jaf2DyC
— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) May 26, 2020
What we know about the coronavirus
The U.S. has just reached 100,000 deaths from #covid19. What have we learned? A thread of 10 lessons:
— Leana Wen, M.D. (@DrLeanaWen) May 27, 2020
It's not really about surface transmission. It's not even really about coughs. It's about basic airborne transmission, and it's why open windows, good ventilation, and masks indoors matter so much. Good update on what we now know about coronavirus: https://t.co/REr9C1fsus
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) May 27, 2020
An even better concise summary: https://t.co/0AM1uUE2s2
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) May 27, 2020
A scientist who studies aerosols says everything she reads about COVID-19 points to a pathogen that travels through the air. https://t.co/Ku2pMZYd8x pic.twitter.com/uXKX2gKgVN
— WebMD (@WebMD) June 7, 2020
Pinpointing the cells in the body's immune response to coronavirus would help speed the development of treatments and vaccines. https://t.co/JpG89ZeY6L
— Axios (@axios) June 11, 2020
How can we assess the Covid-19 risk of going places outside the home?
— Vox (@voxdotcom) June 10, 2020
It's more complicated than the “stay 6 feet away” guidelines.
We need to consider risk in four dimensions: distance to other people, environment, activity, and time spent together.https://t.co/St26LX4c3X
The CDC now says everyone "should wear a cloth face cover when they have to go out in public."
— CNN (@CNN) June 25, 2020
So why has guidance on face masks changed since the pandemic started? Scientists are constantly learning more about the novel coronavirus. Here's what to know. https://t.co/a30sK0MFxl
Coronavirus autopsies: A story of 38 brains, 87 lungs and 42 hearts https://t.co/t1EYtJSG9T
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 1, 2020
More mask polls
Should masks be required in public? Among Democrats, 93% say yes, 5% say no. Among Republicans, 43% say yes, 54% say no. Among independents, 71% yes, 29% no. #mulawpoll
— MULawPoll (@MULawPoll) August 11, 2020
Whether or not you wear a mask in public tells us a lot about your 2020 vote, per new NBC/WSJ poll.
— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) June 8, 2020
Among the 62% of voters who ALWAYS wear a mask in public, Biden leads them by 40pts.
Among the 15% who RARELY/NEVER wear a mask, Trump is ahead by 76pts https://t.co/TaoaGRJrhF
Americans who think highly of the news media’s coverage of the coronavirus outbreak are much more confident in their own ability to check the accuracy of #COVID19 information. https://t.co/0dwSbLrIvm pic.twitter.com/21Kjg4jVWL
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) May 28, 2020
If schools reopen this fall, about 1 in 5 teachers say they’re unlikely to return to their classrooms, according to a new online poll, with 18% reporting that they would leave their job. https://t.co/az0bSanhrC pic.twitter.com/RGNXv9KJCS
— WebMD (@WebMD) May 28, 2020
There's endless hand wringing on *this website* about Trump guiding all COVID conversation but for 72+ hours, Biden & his team have goaded Trump into a debate on an issue where 3/4 of Americans agree w/ Biden. https://t.co/Lnk8KCqKvB
— Lily Adams (@adamslily) May 27, 2020
Most people are wearing masks… and it's a growing % of the population. Moreover, most think Trump should be wearing a mask. https://t.co/AtugaDP9TE https://t.co/3z0ZaE7EIF pic.twitter.com/a2eZ50aILr
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) May 25, 2020
According to the latest Q-poll, 64% of voters say everyone should be required to wear face masks in public.
— John Berman (@JohnBerman) May 26, 2020
67% say the President should.
The CDC says everyone should.
The science is pretty clear here and so are the politics.
(Curious that it is even framed as a debate)
Mask shortage for most health-care workers extended into May, Post-Ipsos poll shows https://t.co/ySjwdeAELN pic.twitter.com/7omnogk6D3
— Holly Figueroa O'Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) May 21, 2020
Movie Poll 🍿🎥🎟
— Rich Greenfield, LightShed (@RichLightShed) May 23, 2020
Would you go to a movie theater if you are required to wear a mask?
More on right-wing defiance on masks
They are making a health issue into a political issue. They should wear masks for all of us.
The irony of the mask defiance is that the mask is actually a symbol of personal responsibility, previously claimed as a Republican value. https://t.co/ol2xaYmVTT
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) May 26, 2020
To call mask wearing a matter of virtue signaling is to betray that you are experiencing this pandemic at a ludicrous level of abstraction https://t.co/KXGtbGhHuT
— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) May 26, 2020
Trump sharing a picture of Biden doing something supported by a large majority of the public is a perfect summary of his political strategy since the pandemic began. https://t.co/qpN8JJorrN
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) May 25, 2020
Your Face Mask Is Actually a Sign of Strength
Trump retweeted this. The message he’s sending is that how he looks is more important than public safety.
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) May 26, 2020
I expect more from my neighbors, much less the President of the United States. https://t.co/ZK9syx21Rc