Sunday, October 31, 2021

Bray by bray: What Trump said during the pandemic (October 16-31, 2020)



October 31, 2020.   U.S. total Covid cases =  9,565,037, (+91,854 which is 20.8% of current total)

October 31, 2021.  U.S. total Covid cases = 45,915,212 (+29,411)

Trump has stuck to the refrain no matter what has been happening with the pandemic. Since February, the President has declared at least 38 times that Covid-19 is either going to disappear or is currently disappearing. [emphasis added]
His proclamations have been wildly inaccurate. When Trump first started making the claim in February, it was about the time the US had just suffered its very first known Covid-19 death. More than 220,000 deaths later, Trump continues to falsely claim that the virus will somehow just go away — even as the US experiences yet another surge in cases and hospitalizations.

October 31, 2020.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 239,880 (+1,025), which is 32.2% of current totat

October 31, 2021.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 745,378 (+2,328)


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Headline from The Guardian, 10/30/2020
Graph from Worldometer (arrows added)


October 30, 2020.   U.S. total Covid cases =  9,473,183, (+103,118 which is 20.6% of current total)

October 30, 2021.  U.S. total Covid cases = 45,885,801 (+72,766)


October 30, 2020.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 238,955 (+983), which is 32.1% of current totat

October 30, 2021.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 743,050 (+2,025)

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Mike Luckovich (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

October 29, 2020.   U.S. total Covid cases =  9,370,065, (+94,955 which is 20.5% of current total)

October 29, 2021.  U.S. total Covid cases = 45,797,078 (+86,235)

Washington Post, 10/29/2020
This is the subtext to Trump’s repeated insistence that the country is “rounding the corner” on the virus, an assertion so detached from reality that it’s simply laughable. It’s the chief of the local fire department insisting that a house fire was nearly out because it was burning itself out. Sure, he could have some trucks come and spray water on it, but why? It’s going away on its own.

October 29, 2020.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 237,972 (+1,024), which is 32% of current totat

October 29, 2021.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 743,050 (+1,773)

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October 28, 2020.   U.S. total Covid cases =  9,275,110, (+85,918 which is 20.3% of current total)

October 28, 2021.  U.S. total Covid cases = 45,710,843 (+94,559)

New York Times, 10/28/2020
As an immense new surge in coronavirus cases sweeps the country, President Trump is closing his re-election campaign by pleading with voters to ignore the evidence of a calamity unfolding before their eyes and trust his word that the disease is already disappearing as a threat to their personal health and economic well being. 
The president has continued to declare before large and largely maskless crowds that the virus is vanishing, even as case counts soar, fatalities climb, the stock market dips and a fresh outbreak grips the staff of Vice President Mike Pence. Hopping from one state to the next, he has made a personal mantra out of declaring that the country is “rounding the corner.”

October 28, 2020.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 236,948 (+996), which is 32% of current totat

October 28, 2021.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 741,277 (+3,751)

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October 27, 2020.   U.S. total Covid cases =  9,189,192, (+82,286 which is 20.1% of current total)

October 27, 2021.  U.S. total Covid cases = 45,616,284 (+87,358)

In rally after rally, tweet after tweet, Trump is encouraging his supporters and everyone else to stop talking about the coronavirus. His key message: It’s not that big of a deal, vaccines are on the way and if people get sick, most of them will survive it just as Trump and his family did.

October 27, 2020.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 235,952 (+1,023), which is 32% of current totat

October 27, 2021.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 737,526 (+1,837)

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October 26, 2020.   U.S. total Covid cases =  9,106,806, (+69,332 which is 20% of current total)

October 26, 2021.  U.S. total Covid cases = 45,528,926 (+105,561)

Trump’s tweet came as the U.S. is reporting a record-breaking number of new coronavirus cases. On Sunday, the country reported a weekly average of about 68,767 new cases every day, the highest seven-day average recorded yet, according to a CNBC analysis of Hopkins data. The U.S. reported 60,789 new Covid cases Sunday after daily cases reached 83,757 on Friday, passing the last record of roughly 77,300 cases seen on July 16, according to Hopkins data.

October 26, 2020.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 234,889 (+615), which is 31.8% of current totat

October 26, 2021.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 737,526 (+614)

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October 25, 2020.   U.S. total Covid cases =  9,037,484, (+61,589 which is 19.9% of current total)

October 25, 2021.  U.S. total Covid cases = 45,423,365 (+17,102)

Washington Post, 10/25/2020
With the election a little over a week away, the new White House outbreak spotlighted the administration’s failure to contain the pandemic as hospitalizations surge across much of the United States and daily new cases hit all-time highs. The outbreak around Pence, who chairs the White House’s coronavirus task force, undermines the argument Trump has been making to voters that the country is “rounding the turn,” as the president put it at a rally Sunday in New Hampshire.

October 25, 2020.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 234,274 (+523), which is 31.8% of current totat

October 25, 2021.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 736,912 (+158)

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October 24, 2020.   U.S. total Covid cases =  8,975,895, (+81,285 which is 19.8% of current total)

October 24, 2021.  U.S. total Covid cases = 45,406,263 (+29,824)

PolitiFact, 10/24/2020
Trump said at a Waukesha rally the U.S. is "really not doing (COVID-19) reporting right" because deaths are being improperly counted and hospitals have an "incentive" to pad stats. 
This is wrong on every point. 
The U.S. is following the same COVID-19 death reporting guidelines as nearly every other country, which come from the World Health Organization. Under those guidelines, someone with heart disease, cancer or any other disease whose death is hastened by COVID-19 would be listed as COVID-19 death.

October 24, 2020.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 233,751 (+847), which is 31.8% of current totat

October 24, 2021.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 735,964 (+2,579)

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October 23, 2020.   U.S. total Covid cases =  8,894,610, (+81,757 which is 19.6% of current total)

October 23, 2021.  U.S. total Covid cases = 45,376,439 (+87,344)

“We certainly interact with the vice president at the task force meetings, and the vice president makes our feelings and what we talk about there known to the president,” Fauci told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd when asked about the last time Trump has attended a meeting with the nation’s leading public health experts. Fauci’s remarks echo those of Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, who also sits on the task force. 
Collins told NPR in an interview published Monday that Trump has primarily received his information from Pence and coronavirus advisor Scott Atlas. “I definitely don’t have his ear as much as Scott Atlas right now. That has been a changing situation,” 
Fauci told MSNBC when asked about how often he briefs the president. Atlas, who is not an infectious disease specialist, has reportedly pushed the herd immunity strategy, which Fauci has criticized, saying it would cause a lot of unnecessary deaths.

October 23, 2020.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 232,904 (+847), which is 31.7% of current totat

October 23, 2021.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 733,385 (+2,130)

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False?  Not when it's the same lie repeated over and over and over again.


October 22, 2020.   U.S. total Covid cases =  8,812,853, (+77,342 which is 19.4% of current total)

October 22, 2021.  U.S. total Covid cases = 45,289,095 (+81,987)


PolitiFact , 10/22/2021
The number of coronavirus cases is climbing once again, after falling consistently between late July and mid-September. Cases are now at their highest point since early August, with almost 60,000 new confirmed infections a day, according to data from the COVID Tracking Project. That’s only about 10% lower than the peak in late July.

October 22, 2020.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 232,057 (+971), which is 31.6% of current totat

October 22, 2021.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 733,385 (+1,813)

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Trump's version of 'turning the corner'

New York Times (COVIDs and arrows added)

October 21, 2020.   U.S. total Covid cases =  8,735,511, (+68,373 which is 19.3% of current total)

October 21, 2021.  U.S. total Covid cases = 45,207,166 (+86,592)

New York Times, 10/21/2021
Attacking two television networks, CNN and MSNBC, with barbed epithets, Mr. Trump insisted for the second night in a row, “That pandemic is rounding the corner. They hate it when I say it.” 
“All you hear is Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid,” Mr. Trump said, repeating the word 11 times. “That’s all they put on, because they want to scare the hell out of everyone.”

October 21, 2020.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 231,086 (+1,164), which is 31.6% of current totat

October 21, 2021.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 731,512 (+3,112)

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October 20, 2020.   U.S. total Covid cases =  8,667,198, (+75,867 which is 19.2% of current total)

October 20, 2021.  U.S. total Covid cases = 45,120,616 (+83,624)

New York Times, 10/20/2020
The memo from Dr. Sean P. Conley, the White House physician, said he was releasing information with Mr. Trump’s permission. But the amount of information he provided was limited, in keeping with restrictive presentations to the public that Dr. Conley has made throughout Mr. Trump’s battle with symptoms of the coronavirus since officials made his diagnosis public early on Oct. 2.

October 20, 2020.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 229,922 (+910), which is 31.6% of current totat

October 20, 2021.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 728,400 (+3,901)

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October 19, 2020.   U.S. total Covid cases =  8,591,331, (+50,032 which is 19.1% of current total)

October 19, 2021.  U.S. total Covid cases = 45,036,802 (+122,033)

Washington Post, 10/19/2020
[Projecting his own fears of an election loss], President Trump dismissed precautions to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus and attacked the nation’s top infectious-disease expert as a “disaster” Monday, arguing that people are getting tired of all the focus on a pandemic that has killed more than 219,000 Americans and continues to infect thousands of people in communities across the country. 
The president claimed that voters do not want to hear more from the country’s scientific leaders about the pandemic, responding angrily to a critical interview Sunday night with CBS’s “60 Minutes” by Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

October 19 2020.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 229,012 (+506), which is 31.6% of current totat

October 19, 2021.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 724,499 (+1,890)

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October 18, 2020.   U.S. total Covid cases =  8,541,299, (+46,802 which is 19% of current total)

October 18, 2021.  U.S. total Covid cases = 44,914,859 (+26,152)

Washington Post, 10/18/2020
Trump has returned to the campaign trail with gusto after battling the novel coronavirus, holding daily rallies with thousands of supporters at airport hangars, including events in recent days in Florida, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin. In doing so, the president is again flouting warnings from doctors — including Anthony S. Fauci, the federal government’s top infectious-disease expert — about the potential health risks of large groups gathering with little social distancing and many eschewing face masks.

October 18 2020.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 228,506 (+577), which is 31.5% of current totat

October 18, 2021.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 724,499 (+180)

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October 17, 2020.   U.S. total Covid cases =  8,497,497, (+61,624 which is 18.9% of current total)

October 17, 2021.  U.S. total Covid cases = 44,892,707 (+33,541)


"I wish you had a Republican governor, because you've got to open your state up," Trump said. "You've got to open it up. You've got to open your schools up." 
Many of the state's largest school districts are conducting school virtually as a pandemic precaution. Some that started in person have moved to virtual classes in response to Wisconsin’s soaring infection rates.

October 17 2020.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 227,929 (+676), which is 31.5% of current totat

October 17, 2021.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 724,319 (+446)

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October 16, 2020.   U.S. total Covid cases =  8,435,847, (+71,334 which is 18.8% of current total)

October 16, 2021.  U.S. total Covid cases = 44,859,166 (+98,560)

The White House has pledged to create 300 million doses of a vaccine by January 2021. The plan, published by the Department of Health and Human Services, outlines that "steps will proceed simultaneously" as government-funded companies continue with their research and trials of possible vaccines. [emphasis added]

October 16 2020.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 227,253 (+921), which is 31.4% of current totat

October 16, 2021.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 723,931 (+2,165)

The reality

One month after the United States began what has become a troubled rollout of a national COVID vaccination campaign, the effort is finally gathering real steam. 
Close to a million doses -- over 951,000, to be more exact -- made their way into the arms of Americans in the past 24 hours, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday. That's the largest number of shots given in one day since the rollout began and a big jump from the previous day, when just under 340,000 doses were given, CBS News reported.


Related series of posts: Day by day:  What Trump said about the pandemic. 



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