Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Virus timeline finds few heroes inside Beltway as impeachment consumed Congress

  1. 28 and called for a Manhattan Project-level effort to create a vaccine. He also seized on a report in The Washington Times that said the coronavirus may have emerged from a government virology lab in Wuhan, several miles away from the wet market that was thought to be the source.
  2. Reporters covered the coronavirus as an external threat, with headlines calling it the Wuhan virus. It's a mistake news media often make, said Mr.
  3. Tom Cotton about coronavirus, said HuffPost, which praised China's fairly quick response to the outbreak and complained about false information.
  4. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., holds the gavel after announcing the passage of the second article of impeachment, obstruction of Congress, against President Donald Trump by the House of Representatives at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec.
  5. Throughout those early months, the press delivered contradictory coverage of the Chinese virus, as The New York Times called it in a Jan.
  6. Politico pointed out that the press, too, was consumed with impeachment, burying coronavirus stories deep in newspapers or relegating them to the last seconds of newscasts focused not on China, but on Ukraine and Trump phone calls.
  7. Trump, Congress and health officials, CNN was limited chiefly to what China was reporting, though it offered more caveats than the president did in trusting Beijing's statements.
  8. The way I see it is our entire bureaucracy that's supposed to deal with public health responses to pandemics is ossified and sclerotic and really slow, he said.
  9. Two weeks later the president was signing the Phase 2 bill that included Democrats wish list for paid family leave, paid sick leave and expanded food assistance, at a cost of nearly $200 billion.
  10. All risk, disaster or public health events with significant consequences are inevitably interpreted through partisan lenses, he said.


https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/27/coronavirus-timeline-finds-few-heroes-inside-beltw/

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