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

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

Income Inequality after the pandemic

It's hard to decide which of the graphs assembled here by @DLeonhardt & @iarynam is the most maddening and depressing. https://t.co/wK5GokmeN3
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) April 20, 2020

The economic toll from the #coronavirusoutbreak is falling more heavily on lower-income Americans. https://t.co/UtJt21Kuqw pic.twitter.com/UE8r3xOXRK
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) April 21, 2020

Social distancing album cover parodies

Well done, lads. pic.twitter.com/5BjgTM30XX
— Ben Stanley (@BDStanley) March 16, 2020

The Social Distancin' Bob Dylan pic.twitter.com/il4FZ6XeZn
— Bob Egan (@PopSpotsNYC) March 28, 2020

Some people do age gracefully. pic.twitter.com/mPMLWLHadh
— Farran Nehme (@selfstyledsiren) November 14, 2021

Trump lies about the Obama administration

He lies about how they handled the H1N1 swine flu outbreak. He’s trying to divert attention away from his failures.

CNN's fact-check team has thoroughly vetted Trump's previous false claims about the 2009 swine flu pandemic and about the Obama/Biden response. Here is one https://t.co/YFZL8otbod and here is the second https://t.co/R3MhcuKTru https://t.co/K5NNbqVngV
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) April 17, 2020

Your dishonesty has no limits. H1N1 was an immediate top priority & handled decisively. FDA quickly approved testing kits, issued emergency authorizations & approved rapidly developed vaccines. Approval of Obama/Biden leadership was 66% at beginning of outbreak; 57% through fall. https://t.co/JNLgsxTKZm
— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) April 17, 2020

Facts on #H1N1: Within 2 wks of the id of the outbreak,@FDA approved CDC-created test kits. By September 2009 FDA had approved 4 influenza vaccines. During the crisis @CDCgov released 11 million treatment courses of Tamiflu & Relenza. #Obama led & USG agencies saved lives. https://t.co/4VL8C07o8u
— Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) April 17, 2020

icymi

[April 2009]

Do you approve or disapprove of the way the Obama administration is handling the swine flu situation?

Approve 66%
Disapprove 16%

(Gallup Poll, 4/28/09)
more: https://t.co/uWvCNHr6um
— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) April 17, 2020

The H1N1 flu killed 12,456 Americans, not 17K alleged here nor the more than 31K who already have perished in the pandemic @realDonaldTrump told us in February was a “hoax.”
The @BarackObama admin mobilized quickly and was consistently led by the science. It’s a good template. https://t.co/lbYjQyRrKv
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) April 17, 2020

Also, the rest of the world didn’t blame America despite the fact that the H1N1 swine flu came from overcrowded factory farmed pigs in North America and was first detected in California. Nobody called it the “American Pig Flu” or tried to punish America and blame the WHO.
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) April 17, 2020

In the span of 7 minutes, @realDonaldTrump:

1) Claimed the federal response to H1N1 Swine Flu under a former 🇺🇸 President was a 'disaster'…

2) THEN told states the response is THEIR responsibility.

It would be helpful to clarify:

SO. WHO. IS. IN. CHARGE. OF. THE. RESPONSE? https://t.co/cf94yVEsXf pic.twitter.com/GYO0dejFeV
— Craig Spencer MD MPH (@Craig_A_Spencer) April 17, 2020

Approval of Obama's handling of H1N1 (@CNN Nov 2009): 57%

Approval of Trump's handling of coronavirus (@Reuters @ipsosus April 15): 48% https://t.co/3GVPdYBFRM https://t.co/PI3u7Xbrsx https://t.co/DTpvvmUaLs
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) April 17, 2020

Wonder if anyone will ask Dr. Fauci, who was there, if he viewed the Obama Admin’s handling of the H1N1 pandemic a “disaster?”
I also wonder whether @realDonaldTrump will let him answer?
Finally, I wonder why Trump feels this foolishness is helpful to him or the country? https://t.co/Jn0IAIkHBk
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) April 17, 2020

The official CDC number for the H1N1 swineflu was 12,000 American deaths after a year of the pandemic.

Current death toll of the coronavirus is 35,394 American deaths, and it is rising for every day that passes with the current incompetent handling of the pandemic.
— Morten Øverbye (@morten) April 17, 2020

This kind of denialism can be lethal. Pollsters found that people who watched Fox News in 2009 were less likely to say that they would get vaccinated against H1N1. Among those who advised against H1N1 vaccination on Fox News in 2009 was Donald Trump. https://t.co/CQDlO72xMb
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) April 17, 2020

The Obama administration was 3 months old when it called H1N1 a health emergency 6 weeks before WHO declared it a pandemic. The Trump administration was more than 3 years old when it botched the response for the coronavirus. https://t.co/22Z8sjqGeR
— Morten Øverbye (@morten) April 17, 2020

He's still comparing it to the 2009 swine flu, where a third as any people died over the course of a year? OK. https://t.co/7asu0ej6Z7
— Philip Bump (@pbump) April 17, 2020

Some things dont age that well. Tronald Dump tweeting in 2009 about Swine Flu. pic.twitter.com/xsKYcH3E3g
— Real_JasonJHunter (@JJHTweets) April 17, 2020

Another extremist protest in Minnesota

I’m sure Trump and Russia are happy.

I’m sure all those Republican Minnesota State lawmakers who offered up their anti-protest bill are ready to fine the shit out of these patriots. https://t.co/OoStiVvSmA
— D.A. Bullock (@BullyCreative) April 17, 2020

Minutes after a Fox News segment on a protest against social distancing measures outside the Minnesota governor's office, by conservative "Liberate Minnesota" group, Trump tweets "LIBERATE MINNESOTA!"

Left, Fox's America's Newsroom, 11:19 a.m.
Right, Trump, 11:21 a.m. pic.twitter.com/RvFV68oOCb
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) April 17, 2020

Just a reminder that in 2016, when Minnesotans occupied this space to protest police violence after the murder of Philando Castile, the Minnesota GOP leaned even harder into their attempts to criminalize protest. https://t.co/uGCTgyZPLJ
— hodel in the streets, chava in the sheets (@mrotzie) April 17, 2020

A group of Minnesotans is protesting Gov. Tim Walz’s stay-at-home order, calling it unwarranted. https://t.co/IGzz0oR54F
— WCCO – CBS Minnesota (@WCCO) April 16, 2020

Trump's call to LIBERATE Minnesota and out of The entire state of Minnesota- over 5 million people- only a few hundred showed up for a protest. Looking more and more like this November we will LIBERATE AMERICA From Trump and the virus known as Trumpism https://t.co/khEF4ef16D
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) April 17, 2020

Flags, horns, and Donald Trump were on display outside the Minnesota Governor's Residence Friday afternoon during ongoing Liberate Minnesota protest pic.twitter.com/uPeInh9vOB
— Glen Stubbe (@gspphoto) April 17, 2020

Don't even know what to say…

Protest happening now at the MN Gov residence organized by Marty Hackenburg with support from the Minnesota Proud Boyshttps://t.co/MKP3E15OS3
— Naimah Petigny (@NaimahPetigny) April 17, 2020

Video of an ongoing protest outside the Governor of Minnesota's home.

Noting that the Governor has today relaxed some restrictions around outdoor recreation, boating, golfing and the like. https://t.co/ogM3TBrUiZ
— COVID Perspective (@covidperspectiv) April 17, 2020

It appears Jason Lewis for US Senate in Minnesota is connected to this out of control and reckless protest. https://t.co/TX7sHQuIPE
— Peter Morley (@morethanmySLE) April 17, 2020

“Liberate Minnesota” is not only being chickenshit and staying in their cars for their protest tomorrow, they’re making it abundantly clear they don’t give a rip about the health of attendees. pic.twitter.com/GbzaGdrpQ2
— J-Mo. 🇵🇷🏳️‍🌈 (@javimorillo) April 16, 2020

Walz on Minnesota protests against Stay At Home order: "I will never stop dissent but when you are advocating for really reckless behavior, that's a different thing."
— Patrick Kessler (@PatKessler) April 17, 2020