AP fact check dings Democrats for false coronavirus claims

[mystery-ak]

AP fact check dings Democrats for false coronavirus claims
By Sam Dorman | Fox News

    The Associated Press is calling out two leading Democratic presidential candidates for what the outlet says were inaccurate comments about the government's ability to address diseases like the coronavirus.

Former Vice President Joe Biden and former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg were "both wrong" to say critical health agencies faced funding cuts. While discussing the coronavirus during Tuesday's debate, those candidates blamed President Trump for restricting resources for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Institutes of Health (NIH).

“There’s nobody here to figure out what the hell we should be doing. And he’s defunded — he’s defunded Centers for Disease Control, CDC, so we don’t have the organization we need. This is a very serious thing," Bloomberg said.

Biden similarly indicated Trump reversed the Obama-Biden administration's budget increases to those agencies.

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https://www.foxnews.com/media/ap-fact-check-biden-bloomberg-coronavirus

[PeteS in CA]

Ya beat me by 5 minutes!

https://apnews.com/d36d6c4de29f4d04beda3db00cb46104

AP FACT CHECK: Democrats distort coronavirus readiness

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential contenders are describing the federal infectious-disease bureaucracy as rudderless and ill-prepared for the coronavirus threat because of budget cuts and ham-handed leadership by President Donald Trump. That’s a distorted picture. For starters, Trump hasn’t succeeded in cutting the budget.

He’s proposed cuts but Congress ignored him and increased financing instead. The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aren’t suffering from budget cuts that never took effect.
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Some public health experts say a bigger concern than White House budgets is the steady erosion of a CDC grant program for state and local public health emergency preparedness — the front lines in detecting and battling new disease. But that decline was set in motion by a congressional budget measure that predates Trump.
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“The CDC’s response has been excellent, as it has been in the past,” said John Auerbach, president of the nonpartisan Trust for America’s Health, which works with government at all levels to improve the nation’s response to high-risk health crises. Some Democrats have charged that Trump decimated the nation’s public health leadership, but Auerbach said CDC’s top scientific ranks have remained stable during the past three years.

[libertybele]

Ya beat me by 5 minutes!

https://apnews.com/d36d6c4de29f4d04beda3db00cb46104

AP FACT CHECK: Democrats distort coronavirus readiness

IMHO this info doesn't matter.  Panicsville has already hit and the market is reacting.  Try buying dehydrated food or face masks..out of stock....Emergency Essentials does have 6 months and 1 year supplies of food - expensive, and they are experiencing shipping delays.

[mystery-ak]

AP Confirms: Democrats Are Lying to the Public About Coronavirus
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/02/27/ap-confirms-democrats-are-lying-to-the-public-about-coronavirus/

[PeteS in CA]

When AP "fact-checkers" call out Dems for lying, you know the lies are blatant and stupid.

[bigheadfred]

Ya beat me by 5 minutes!

Which is far better than being beat by an angry woman with a cast-iron skillet.

[PeteS in CA]

Which is far better than being beat by an angry woman with a cast-iron skillet.

  Speaking from experience?

[bigheadfred]

Speaking from experience?

Sort of. My wife was babysitting for some people one night. They came home from the bar, arguing. He sat down on the couch. She came out of the kitchen with one and beaned him in the back of the head. Knocked him cold. Then, nice as can be, paid my wife.

This woman had a penchant for beating on people with whatever was at hand. And a hellion temper. Her name is Pam. We all called her Pambo. Not to her face...

[truth_seeker]

STEP RIGHT UP. 

GET YOUR PUBLIC HEALTH ADVICE,

FROM NANCY  OF SAN FECES.

[catfish1957]

AP fact check dings Democrats for false coronavirus claims
By Sam Dorman | Fox News

    The Associated Press is calling out two leading Democratic presidential candidates for what the outlet says were inaccurate comments about the government's ability to address diseases like the coronavirus.

Taken directly from the Katrina playbook.  No public misery issue is too disgusting to exploit politically.

[Smokin Joe]

The Dems whine that Trump didn't want to spend enough,

Well, where were they? What did they propose? Why didn't they come up with a number first?

[bigheadfred]

The Dems whine that Trump didn't want to spend enough,

Well, where were they? What did they propose? Why didn't they come up with a number first?

They are too busy snipe hunting to do their jobs.

[PeteS in CA]

The Dems whine that Trump didn't want to spend enough,

Well, where were they? What did they propose? Why didn't they come up with a number first?

They wanted Trump to propose a $$ number so they could outbid him, saying, "$#B is not enough!" Meanwhile 2 or 3 companies already have vaccines entering testing (effectiveness and safety).

[mystery-ak]

Laura Ingraham debunks 'biggest lies' levied at Trump administration over coronavirus response

Laura Ingraham addressed the "biggest lies" told by critics of President Trump and his administration over the coronavirus outbreak Thursday, starting with the accusation that Vice President Mike Pence isn't "qualified" to manage the coronavirus task force.

"Now, these attacks are so pathetic, they're almost not worth dignifying with a response. They really just hate the fact that Mike Pence is pro-life, that he doesn't believe in enabling drug users," Ingraham said on "The Ingraham Angle" responding to critics of Pence. "Basically, that he's not a liberal because all those liberal governors are doing such a great job with their states crisis."

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https://www.foxnews.com/media/laura-ingraham-debunks-biggest-lies-levied-at-trump-administration-over-coronavirus-response

[conservativevoter]

Look!  Look!  The sky is falling!   

Just wondering, folks.... will we EVER have actual news on the telly again, or is it just going to be guesswork?   

[PeteS in CA]

Laura Ingraham debunks 'biggest lies' levied at Trump administration over coronavirus response
...

I wish the article included urls for articles documenting her claims, or embedded videos. That said:

And finally, that Trump only started reacting to the situation because of it's impact on the stock market.

"I'd like to direct their attention to Exhibit A," Ingraham said. "The White House announcing the creation of the virus task force in January. And bipartisan briefings have been happening for weeks and weeks with officials from the HHS and the CDC."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-outbreak-task-force-created-by-trump-to-lead-us-government-response-to-wuhan-virus/

Trump creates task force to lead U.S. coronavirus response
JANUARY 30, 2020 / 9:12 AM / CBS NEWS

President Trump has created a new task force to lead the government's response to the fast-spreading coronavirus, the White House announced Wednesday.

Led by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and coordinated through the National Security Council, the task force is made up of subject matter experts from across the federal government and has been meeting daily since Monday. Members of the 12-member group include National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield, and the National Institutes of Health's Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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Mr. Trump, who considers himself a germaphobe, addressed the coronavirus outbreak Wednesday (1/29) during a signing ceremony for the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
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Later in the day (1/29), Mr. Trump said in a tweet that he attended a briefing on the coronavirus and lauded the U.S. experts monitoring the outbreak.

"Just received a briefing on the Coronavirus in China from all of our GREAT agencies, who are also working closely with China," he said. "We will continue to monitor the ongoing developments. We have the best experts anywhere in the world, and they are on top of it 24/7!"

And then there's this article from the WashPost, https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/01/21/us-screenings-coronavirus-expanded-airports-atlanta-chicago/

U.S. begins screening for the coronavirus at airports in Atlanta and Chicago
Jan. 22, 2020 at 12:54 p.m. PST

Amid growing concerns about the spread of a new potentially fatal coronavirus, Chicago’s O’Hare and Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International airports on Wednesday became the latest in the United States to begin conducting expanded screenings of travelers arriving from Wuhan, China.

More than 1,200 people have been scrutinized since U.S. health officials began screening passengers at John F. Kennedy, Los Angeles and San Francisco international airports last week. No one has been found to have the virus or been hospitalized through the screenings.