Senior US official warns Congress and speaks of "darkest winter" in history

In view of the rapidly rising unemployment figures, US President Trump is urging the economy and schools to open up quickly.

• The United States is badly affected by the Corona crisis. 
• US President Donald Trump * wants to push ahead with the reopening of schools. 
• Rick Bright , former director of BARDA, warned of the “darkest winter” in history

Washington - Despite vigorous warnings by senior health officials, US President Donald Trump wants to push the reopening of schools and universities. The new school year should start as planned in autumn, especially since the coronavirus * according to Donald Trump has "very little effect" on younger people. "We have to open our schools," Trump said in an interview with Fox Business on Thursday. "We have to open our country." He expressly contradicted expert assessments that warn of hasty steps.

USA: Donald Trump contradicts expert assessment of hasty steps in the corona crisis 

Senior officials, however, cautioned. "Without clear planning and implementation of the steps outlined by myself and other experts, 2020 will be the darkest winter in recent history," warned Rick Bright , former director of the Ministry of Health, BARDA, in a previously released statement for a committee of the House of Representatives. He should be heard in Parliament on Thursday. 

I don't know the so-called Whistleblower Rick Bright, never met him or even heard of him, but to me he is a disgruntled employee, not liked or respected by people I spoke to and who, with his attitude, should no longer be working for our government!

Bright sharply criticized Trump's corona policy . It is an "undeniable fact" that the coronavirus will reappear in autumn . With the simultaneous outbreak of the flu, this would be an "unprecedented burden" for the health system. The country was paralyzed because of Trump's misleading communication and a lack of a nationwide strategy. Scientific knowledge should define the strategy for the fight against the novel corona virus, "not politics and nepotism". 

Corona in the USA: Donald Trump discredits Rick Bright via Twitter

Donald Trump's reaction via Twitter * was not long in coming. "I don't know the so-called whisteblower Rick Bright, I never met him or heard from him. But for me he is an angry employee who was neither liked nor respected by people I spoke to. "According to Trump, he should" no longer work for our government ". 

Bright said he was fired as director of the agency in April for refusing to support Trump's acclaimed treatments for Covid-19 lung disease that have not been scientifically proven. He was transferred to a position in the National Health Institute (NIH). Trump said he didn't know the officer at all.

Marvin Ziegele with dpa

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