This coronavirus update has covered planting a tree, the Thunderbirds, the fourth of July, his wall, world leaders praising him and opening national parks without a target date or explanation to mark Earth day. Is there another briefing happening on the virus someplace else?
— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) April 22, 2020
It’s not like Trump desperately needs to win Pennsylvania and Michigan. Oh wait. https://t.co/SvuX7PdYEw
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) April 22, 2020
trumps attention span is too limited to understand we are still in the midst of the current pandemic https://t.co/OD3jUMBafC
— darth™ (@darth) April 22, 2020
Trump alternating here between giving Birx the sideeye and furrowing his brow as he tries to understand the words coming out of her mouth.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 22, 2020
Trump on #coronavirus in fall/winter 2020:
"It will be coming back in smaller doses which we can contain." We will have "embers of corona."
"We will not go through what we went through for the last two months."
"It may not come back at all."— Heidi Przybyla (@HeidiNBC) April 22, 2020
Dr. Trump has now said multiple times that 'there is a very good chance covid doesn't come back' in the fall.
This is not, as far as I can tell, the view of actual scientists studying this disease.
— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) April 22, 2020
Trump clearly doesn't want anyone talking about the very real possibility that there could be a second wave.
— Matt Lewis (@mattklewis) April 22, 2020
Trump just marched CDC director Redfield out to claim he was misquoted by the WaPo. But in fact, Redfield just confirmed the entire story — below — said he was quoted 100 percent accurately.https://t.co/GNnDSxWUE3
— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) April 22, 2020
Redfield says he was “accurately quoted” in Washington Post. Trump fussing over headline in story.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) April 22, 2020
Every time he has asked about this, Redfield is changing the subject to saying that he just wants to make sure people will get their flu shots. This whole thing is very Soviet right now.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 22, 2020
.@weijia just asked an important Q. Why did the @CDCDirector tweet The Washington Post article if he had a problem with the headline?
Neither Redfield nor Pres Trump answered her & instead Trump said, "You were not called."
Here's Redfield tweeting out @bylenasun's story. pic.twitter.com/Jo4vDJ7Vfo
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) April 22, 2020
Fauci: "I am convinced" we will have coronavirus in the fall. "What happens with that" will depend on how we contain it when it occurs; in the fall, we will be "much, much better prepared" compared to what happened this winter.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 22, 2020
“Telehealth, I’ve been reading about it for years”
No, he hasn’t, and almost anything that involves him saying “I’ve been reading” is not likely to be true
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 22, 2020
I believe he just compared a picture of himself at a rally on the mall to a picture of Dr. King at the March on Washington and everything is awful.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) April 22, 2020
Trump: "Some people" are very "big" on testing, but also, "some people are much less big than I am, and they're professionals." (?) (Experts generally emphasize that testing is critical.)
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 22, 2020
Meanwhile…
oh boy https://t.co/tUX36N6Ig8
— David Frum (@davidfrum) April 22, 2020
One of the nation's top health officials says he was removed from his job for refusing to endorse the Trump administration's promotion of chloroquine as a miracle cure for covid. https://t.co/zVEzVinvB0
— Greg Miller (@gregpmiller) April 22, 2020
I have never seen that smoking gun before in my life, Trump says. https://t.co/7C9U6cV2RG
— Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org (@froomkin) April 22, 2020
After weeks of unrelenting coverage hyping hydroxychloroquine as a potential game-changing treatment for the coronavirus, Fox News has all but stopped mentioning the antimalarial drug on its airwaves. So has President Trump. https://t.co/0ForVDIyIX
— CNN (@CNN) April 22, 2020
— John (@DotDotDot_John) April 22, 2020
Inside the conservative network backing the anti-quarantine protests – The Washington Post https://t.co/fc9bsGteLq
— Ziya Meral (@Ziya_Meral) April 22, 2020
JUST IN: McConnell says governors should begin reopening states https://t.co/PgWqFnDoiJ pic.twitter.com/QO2YlqckRx
— The Hill (@thehill) April 22, 2020
Mitch McConnell to states: Drop dead.https://t.co/Y9AFcXd9nU
— Paul Waldman (@paulwaldman1) April 22, 2020
President Trump on Georgia: "The spas and the beauty parlors, barbershops, tattoo parlors, I love 'em — but they can wait a little bit longer. Just a little bit." pic.twitter.com/cKMl1kDm2a
— The Hill (@thehill) April 22, 2020
Trump is correct that Georgia hasn’t met the federal re-opening guidelines. https://t.co/UFi0lRVBPh
— Philip Bump (@pbump) April 22, 2020
It appears the mayor of Las Vegas got hold of all the drink tickets before quarantine. pic.twitter.com/EaxTRQnAuE
— Cousin Sal (@TheCousinSal) April 22, 2020
Las Vegas' mayor repeatedly called for local businesses to reopen while refusing to provide social distancing guidelines. "For a restaurant to be open or a small boutique to be open, they better figure it out. That's their job. That's not the mayor's job." https://t.co/W5xW9S4xMa
— CNN (@CNN) April 22, 2020
Brutal statement from Culinary Union on Goodman interview:
"In Las Vegas, we’ve had 11 Culinary Union members die because of COVID-19. The Mayor’s statements are outrageous considering essential frontline workers have been dealing with the consequences of this crisis firsthand." pic.twitter.com/wYliBP86ZE
— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) April 22, 2020
Great name for a metal band though. https://t.co/zaF1xWnTRz
— Mark Worgan (@worgztheowl) April 22, 2020
My latest from @WIRED— when approaching anti-quarantine protests, the most important thing to remember is that none of us are outside the story. We drive & energize the story based on how we respond. We have so much to lose; so we have to be so careful https://t.co/SODqULYsKZ
— Whitney Phillips (@wphillips49) April 22, 2020
A @Reuters special report: HHS chief Alex Azar tapped ex-professional Labradoodle breeder to coordinate the coronavirus response https://t.co/i6fU90uRgY pic.twitter.com/ka4ft86FWl
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 22, 2020
Here’s the piece. I stand by every word. https://t.co/6rDLbhjQII
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) April 22, 2020
Coronavirus calamity in U.S. nursing homes; A @wsj Wall Street Journal survey of state data reveals more than 10,000 Covid-19 deaths have occurred in long-term care facilities. Industry is struggling to access the testing to detect outbreaks. https://t.co/iwiT5kNFGz
— JamesVGrimaldi (@JamesVGrimaldi) April 22, 2020
oh, and…
.@realDonaldTrump says he gave an order to the Navy yesterday to “shoot Iran’s boats out of the water’ if they get too close to US Navy ships
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) April 22, 2020
November is an option. https://t.co/p6eQMnYHwm
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) April 22, 2020
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BORIS IS RISEN! BREXITSHAMBLES BRITAIN
The blue line is the number of people the govt says has died. The red line is the number who’ve actually died. New @ft analysis of ONS data finds 41,000 dead. More than double govt’s 17,337. https://t.co/rBxIMbJcki pic.twitter.com/wbjosYFJVx
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) April 22, 2020
This, from the head of life events at @ONS is entirely accurate – all the data is official. No one is claiming stuff is being hidden. It's just that we know the up to date data is incomplete, so it's an attempt to fill in the gaps https://t.co/INcjKUsEMz
— Chris Giles (@ChrisGiles_) April 22, 2020
UK will need social distancing until at least end of year, says Whitty https://t.co/2Jt4jACoLR
— The Guardian (@guardian) April 22, 2020
Asked by Keir Starmer at PMQs if the UK had been "slow" to act, Dominic Raab namechecked Whitty and Vallance as he insisted the UK had been "guided by the science"
At tonight's presser, Whitty repeatedly stressed that decisions were for ministershttps://t.co/0CiBdXCqHV
— Alex Wickham (@alexwickham) April 22, 2020
He does not say this lightly.. Once again, turns out logistics is what makes the world and military go round.. albeit less sexy than talking about drones, AI, social media and warfare https://t.co/MS4dryJZ8x
— Ziya Meral (@Ziya_Meral) April 22, 2020
Hancock's department 'warned No 10' not to publicise PPE shipment https://t.co/XLTbR2fxTD
— Tim Walker (@ThatTimWalker) April 22, 2020
That would be an executive matter.
And its a mad idea anyway https://t.co/yjDmzNg6zm
— Matthew O'Toole (@MatthewOToole2) April 22, 2020
Exclusive: analysis by @guardian of Covid-19 data reveals that BME ppl are *dying at a higher rate* with #COVIDー19 compared to their white peers. @RunnymedeTrust tells Guardian that racial inequalities now has to be recognised as a risk factor in covid-19 https://t.co/CnRqxWQ3aL
— Dr Zubaida Haque (@Zubhaque) April 22, 2020
So, me, London mayor @sadiqkhan, my old school mate @rizwanahmed, @sayeedawarsi, @tezilyas, @nazshahbfd, @konnie_huq, and a bunch of other British Muslims made a video urging everyone to stay at home this Ramadan.
Please watch, share and then let's get #RamadanAtHome trending! pic.twitter.com/TohcLGkL7q
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) April 22, 2020
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WORLDWIDE
Fifty years after the first Earth Day, it’s not just seabirds any more. It’s us. https://t.co/hNZSSZvzzF
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) April 22, 2020
My guess is that the biggest risk in poor countries is not the direct impact of the virus (partly because populations are young) but the secondary effects. Polio and vitamin A campaigns are being suspended. Schools are out. Incomes have collapsed. Food is running out.
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) April 22, 2020
The Overnight Note 