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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: i-node who wrote (164533)5/18/2020 11:50:45 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (2) of 357749
 
"Almost as many killed in the 2017-8 flu season in the US"
#IWonderY#I'llTellYa

President Trump has been dangerously silent on this year’s deadly flu epidemic
Trump sends a lot of tweets. You’d think one could be about the flu.

By Emily Stewart emily.stewart@vox.com Feb 12, 2018, 3:50pm EST

This year’s flu season is severe. All but a handful of states are experiencing widespread flu outbreaks. As of last week, the flu and pneumonia are causing one in 10 deaths in America. Yet the White House has been largely silent about it.

...Of course, President Trump can’t cure the flu. Nor can be he faulted that this year the flu has been deadly, as it has in years past. But he could tell people to get a flu shot and wash their hands — as past presidents have done.
When the bird flu threatened a global spread in 2005, President George W. Bush mapped out a plan to combat the pandemic and keep it from reaching the United States. And when faced with the swine flu in 2009, President Barack Obama drew from Bush’s playbook in his administration’s response. Both presidents also spoke about their efforts publicly — Bush delivered a speech at the National Institutes of Health to put minds at ease and discuss measures for prevention, and Obama went as far as to enlist Elmo as part of its anti-flu campaign.

This year, up to 4,000 Americans are dying from the flu and pneumonia per week. But Trump hasn’t been telling people to sneeze into their elbows or speaking about a plan to fight the virus.

vox.com
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