Corona crisis in the USA: Donald Trump once again caused a scandal on a PK. Now a US health official is warning with dramatic words and making a grim forecast for the country.
- Most corona deaths continue to be registered in the United States worldwide .
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Corona crisis in the USA: expert warns of "darkest winter in recent history"
May 14, 2020 update: Time is running out for the U.S. government , senior health official Rick Bright warns. He believes that the “darkest winter in recent history” could be imminent for the United States . Especially if the flu breaks out at the same time as the coronavirus.
Without a coordinated strategy, the pandemic would lead to unprecedented levels of disease and death , Bright said in a pre-release statement for a House committee. In his prepared statement, Bright Trump's corona policy was sharply criticized. The country was paralyzed because of Trump's misleading communication and lack of a nationwide strategy, he said. Scientific knowledge should define the strategy for the fight against the novel corona virus, "not politics and nepotism," he wrote. "Without clear planning and implementation of the steps that I and other experts have explained, 2020 will be the darkest winter in recent history," he warned.
Bright said he was shot as director of an agency under the Department of Health in April for refusing to support unsupported treatments for Covid-19 lung disease, which US President Donald Trump has promised. Bright was transferred to a position at the National Health Institute (NIH). Trump in turn said at the time that he didn't know the official at all.
Corona virus in the US: Trump reports journalist "nasty question"
First report from May 13, 2020 :
Munich / Washington - In times of the coronavirus pandemic, there are not a few people who are afraid of the future. The uncertainty, the changes, the lack of social contacts, all of this is not easy to deal with *. Each person reacts differently because each person channels their fears differently *.
Describing Donald Trump * as a fearful person now would probably be wrong. The US president obviously has problems other than fear of the corona virus or its consequences. Thereby acts Trump still thin-skinned than before in recent weeks. You can also read this in our old US ticker on the Corona crisis.
Corona crisis in the USA: Trump scandal - US President breaks off PK after argument with journalist
He also stated on Monday the brevity of his patience thread under evidence, when the US President at the press conference to Corona pandemic outside the White House, a war of words with a US journalist provided.
The reporter Weijia Jiang by the TV station CBS News had Trump asked why he capacities in the United States compare with the virus tests positive with other countries, as if we are dealing with an international competition. There was a banner on Trump's back that said, "America leads the world in tests.
Trump just barked back. This may be "a question you should ask China ," the US president said . Jiang then responded by asking why the president was making this note to her - she was suggesting that this had to do with her Chinese origins.
Corona crisis in the USA: Donald Trump reacts thinly to criticism
And again Trump reacted little de-escalating. He says this “to anyone who would ask me such a nasty question.” Jiang was born in China but grew up in the United States .
After @weijia asks President Trump why he sees the pandemic response as a "global competition," he tells her: "Maybe that's a question you should ask China. Don't ask me, ask China that question, okay?" https://t.co/9T8aUPjUrs pic.twitter.com/aDQ5cwWvn0
- CBS News (@CBSNews) May 11, 2020Trump tried to speak to another journalist while Jiang kept talking and asking. Shortly afterwards, Trump broke off the press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House and went back inside the building.
Corona crisis in the US: Criticism of Trump increases enormously - US President shoots back
Throughout his tenure, Trump has carried out massive attacks against large parts of the US media and has repeatedly dealt with individual journalists. In the Corona crisis , he responded to allegations that he was too late to spread the new virus, including angry attacks on parts of the media that treated him "brutally".
Another major target of Trump's attacks in the corona crisis is China , where the virus was first found in humans *. The US president accuses Beijing of informing the world too late about the pathogen and of not disclosing the extent of its spread.
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