Biden campaign: Meadows agreeing virus is mostly 'harmless' shows 'rotten values' of Trump administr

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Biden campaign: Meadows agreeing virus is mostly 'harmless' shows 'rotten values' of Trump administration
By Zack Budryk - 07/06/20 02:15 PM EDT

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign blasted White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Monday for agreeing with President Trump’s characterization of 99 percent of coronavirus cases as “harmless.”

"Donald Trump has had over six months to stop abysmally failing the American people during this historic public health crisis. But even though over 132,000 Americans have lost their lives and tens of millions have lost their jobs due to his unprecedented negligence and incompetence, he has surrendered to the coronavirus and, for the sake of his own optics, is outright lying to the nation about the extreme threat of COVID-19 while undermining testing,” the Biden campaign's rapid response director, Andrew Bates, said in a statement.

“His White House is even telling Americans that they simply need to ‘live with it.’ It's a tragic commentary on the rotten values and dangerousness of this administration that listening to the president and his top staffer could literally compromise even more American lives than their malpractice has already taken. And 1 percent of America is 3.2 million people,” Bates added.

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Slightly less that 50% of US deaths have been nursing home patients, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ETm51GayRjlnoaRVtUOWfkolEeAQZ-zPhXkCbVe4_ik/edit#gid=435667374 . While very sad, that shows that as moderate as the overall US death rate is for this coronavirus, it would be far lower had several governors not forced nursing homes to accept "recovered" Covid-19 patients and had staff testing and protections been handled better (e.g., not taking SNFs' and ALFs' PPE for use in hospitals).