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]]>Media outlets heralded President Donald Trump’s “new tone” on the coronavirus last week, but the so-called shift only came after aides warned him that “our people” in Republican states were getting sick, according to The Washington Post.
After weeks of trying to downplay the coronavirus spikes around the country, Trump acknowledged last week during his first pandemic briefing in months that the health crisis would likely “get worse before it gets better” and urged Americans to wear a face covering, even though he has refused to do so publicly on all but one occasion.
The “shift” also came as polls showed even the president’s own supporters souring on his widely-criticized response to the pandemic. The U.S. has reported more than 147,000 deaths out of more than 4.2 million confirmed infections, according to Johns Hopkins University. That number is nearly twice as many as the next country on the list: Brazil.
“Trump’s shortcomings have perplexed even some of his most loyal allies, who increasingly have wondered why the president has not at least pantomimed a sense of command over the crisis or conveyed compassion for the millions of Americans impacted by it,” The Post reported.
Sources close to Trump told the outlet that “the president’s inability to wholly address the crisis is due to his almost pathological unwillingness to admit error; a positive feedback loop of overly rosy assessments and data from advisers and Fox News; and a penchant for magical thinking that prevented him from fully engaging with the pandemic.”
Trump has revived the coronavirus press briefings, and the White House has started a new working group led by Dr. Deborah Birx and senior adviser Jared Kushner as cases have continued to rise across the country.
The moves came after advisers began to show Trump maps and data illustrating that the spikes were among “our people” in Republican states, a senior official told The Post. They also showed projections that the spikes could soon hit key election swing states, such as Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Ben Rhodes, who served as the deputy national security adviser under former President Barack Obama, questioned why Trump waited until the end of July to react to the spikes, which have impacted his re-election chances.
“The irony is that if he’d just performed with minimal competence and just mouthed words about national unity, he actually could be in a pretty strong position right now, where the economy is reopening, where jobs are coming back,” he told The Post. “And he just could not do it.”
Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told the outlet that Trump’s entire economic message was riding on his coronavirus response.
“The best thing that we can do to set our economy up for success and rebounding from the last few months is making sure our outbreak is in a good place,” she said. “People are not going to feel comfortable returning to activities in the community — even if it’s allowed from a policy perspective — if they don’t feel the outbreak is under control.”
But Trump was largely “unreceptive” to that message until recently, advisers told The Post, arguing that he was not “fully grasping the magnitude of the pandemic” and was “overly preoccupied with his own sense of grievance, beginning many conversations casting himself as the blameless victim of the crisis.”
White House spokeswoman Sarah Matthews disputed the report, arguing that Trump had handled the pandemic “early and decisively.”
“The president has also led an historic, whole-of-America coronavirus response — resulting in 100,000 ventilators procured, sourcing critical PPE for our front-line heroes and a robust testing regime resulting in more than double the number of tests than any other country in the world,” she told The Post. “His message has been consistent and his strong leadership will continue as we safely reopen the economy, expedite vaccine and therapeutics developments, and continue to see an encouraging decline in the U.S. mortality rate.”
But Trump’s detractors said the change in tone, if not action, was far too delayed. Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly served as Trump’s White House communications director before becoming an avowed critic of the president, said the president’s response to the crisis was not unlike his failed business ventures.
“His operating style is to double- and triple-down on positions and to never, ever admit he’s wrong about anything,” he told the outlet. “His 50-year track record is to bulldog through whatever he’s doing, whether it’s Atlantic City, which was a failure, or the Plaza Hotel, which was a failure, or Eastern Airlines, which was a failure. He can never just say, ‘I got it wrong, and let’s try over again.’ “
Rhodes predicted that Trump’s coronavirus response would go down in history as electoral self-sabotage, which could have been avoided by simply doing the bare minimum.
“There is quite a high likelihood where people look back and think between February and April was when Trump burned down his own presidency, and he can’t recover from it,” he said. “The decisions he made then ensured he’d be in his endless cycle of COVID spikes and economic disruption, because he couldn’t exhibit any medium- or long-term thinking.”
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]]>Since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched a section of their website entirely devoted to COVID-19, they have been regularly updating their guidelines to represent the most recent research and developments in the battle against the highly infectious virus. On Friday, they majorly updated their guidance targeted toward people who are fighting the virus at home, changing their suggestions about how long people should remain in quarantine after infection.
Someone with Symptoms
The CDC offers two approaches: one based entirely on time and symptoms and another on testing.
If you have tested positive for COVID-19, you should isolate for 10 days after symptoms first appeared—just as long as 24 hours have passed without a fever and without the help of fever-reducing medications and if key symptoms, like coughing and shortness of breath, have improved. If you have access to tests, you are free to leave the house if tests taken more than 24 hours apart come back negative.
Someone Without Symptoms
If you have tested positive for COVID-19 but don’t have symptoms, the CDC offers two options: a time-based strategy and a test-based strategy.
If 10 days have passed since the first positive test and you haven’t developed symptoms, you can discontinue isolation. “Because symptoms cannot be used to gauge where these individuals are in the course of their illness, it is possible that the duration of viral shedding could be longer or shorter than 10 days after their first positive test,” the CDC warns in the update.
However, if symptoms develop, then the symptom-based or test-based strategy should be used.
Additionally, if you are asymptomatic but test positive, you can leave isolation if you receive two negative tests taken within 24 hours of each other.
Circumstances Should be Taken Into Consideration
The CDC urges you to make decisions of ending isolation “in the context of local circumstances.” For example, if you are a healthcare worker or come into contact with high-risk individuals, you should isolate longer.
Those Who Have Been Exposed But Haven’t Tested Positive….
…still need to quarantine for 14 days
The CDC still recommends that people who have been exposed to the virus, but haven’t tested positive or shown symptoms, still need to quarantine for 14 days—the time it can take to develop the illness. “It is possible that a person known to be infected could leave isolation earlier than a person who is quarantined because of the possibility they are infected,” they write. And to get through this pandemic at your healthiest, don’t miss these 37 Places You’re Most Likely to Catch Coronavirus.
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The CDC has revised its guidance to church leaders, deleting a warning about the risk of spreading the coronavirus through choirs and singing. In this photo from last summer, a choir sings at Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, California.
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The CDC has revised its guidance to church leaders, deleting a warning about the risk of spreading the coronavirus through choirs and singing. In this photo from last summer, a choir sings at Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, California.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has removed guidance on its website that houses of worship should limit choir activities — advice that was based on evidence that group singing can spread the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
The warning was part of new guidance for leaders of faith-based organizations that the CDC had posted last Friday. It stated that they should:
“Consider suspending or at least decreasing use of a choir/musical ensembles and congregant singing, chanting, or reciting during services or other programming, if appropriate within the faith tradition. The act of singing may contribute to transmission of COVID-19, possibly through emission of aerosols.”
But that wording disappeared over the weekend, apparently because the White House had not approved it. The passage was deleted because it had been published by mistake, according to a federal official, who didn’t want to be identified because they were not authorized to speak about the changes.
“CDC posted the wrong version of the guidance,” the official told NPR, adding, “The version that is currently up on the website is the version cleared by the White House.”
The revised guidance on singing now states only that faith-based organizations should: “Promote social distancing at services and other gatherings, ensuring that clergy, staff, choir, volunteers and attendees at the services follow social distancing, as circumstances and faith traditions allow, to lessen their risk.”
The change was first reported by The Washington Post.
The CDC’s initial advice to religious leaders was posted on the same day President Trump called for all 50 states to allow houses of worship to reopen, after weeks of forced closures due to the coronavirus. The president’s comments came after some faith leaders said they planned to defy shutdown orders.
That earlier language is now visible only in a web archive of the agency’s site.
The CDC has previously highlighted the risk of singing in choirs. Just two weeks ago, it published a report on a choir practice in Skagit County, Wash., that was deemed to be “a superspreading event.” Only one person out of the 61 people who attended the March 10 practice was known to be symptomatic, researchers said. But 53 cases of coronavirus infection were later identified.
That report concluded that:
“Choir practice attendees had multiple opportunities for droplet transmission from close contact or fomite transmission, and the act of singing itself might have contributed to SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Aerosol emission during speech has been correlated with loudness of vocalization, and certain persons, who release an order of magnitude more particles than their peers, have been referred to as superemitters and have been hypothesized to contribute to superspeading events. Members had an intense and prolonged exposure, singing while sitting 6–10 inches from one another, possibly emitting aerosols.”
The lead author of that report, communicable disease expert Lea Hamner of Skagit County Public Health, says she is concerned by the CDC’s revisions.
“As a Public Health official, I would strongly encourage that religious services continue to happen remotely or in cars,” Hamner told NPR via email, “and large group gatherings not take place unless strict safety measures are put in place such as physical distancing, wearing face coverings or masks, providing tools for excellent hand hygiene, and not attending while ill.”
The CDC’s guidance on choirs had been part of a section titled “Promote social distancing” – a section that has now been cut from eight entries to five.
A CDC entry on social distancing had originally recommended suspending or reducing the use of singing and choirs in church services. The entry was later revised, and the warning about choirs was removed.
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A CDC entry on social distancing had originally recommended suspending or reducing the use of singing and choirs in church services. The entry was later revised, and the warning about choirs was removed.
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In another change, the first entry in that section now includes a reference to the First Amendment, which guarantees the freedom of religion and speech. Here’s how the sentence now reads, with the newly added phrase in bold:
“Take steps to limit the size of gatherings in accordance with the guidance and directives of state and local authorities and subject to the protections of the First Amendment and any other applicable federal law.”
The CDC has also come under scrutiny in recent days for other revisions to its website.
The agency changed the prominence of its guidance about surface spread of the coronavirus, saying that the main means of transmission is person-to-person. As NPR reported, the CDC said “usability improvements,” such as a new headline on its page about preventing viral infection, caused confusion about whether its guidelines have changed about how the coronavirus spreads.
In clarifying the agency’s guidance, a CDC spokesman said the agency’s language about transmission had not changed.
NPR’s Selena Simmons-Duffin contributed to this report.
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