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To: longnshort who wrote (1230543)	5/17/2020 9:48:23 AM
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Biggest Medical Journal Pleads With Voters To Pick President Who’ll Put Health Ahead Of Politics huffpost.com Trump’s “magic bullets” won’t work, warns The Lancet. It’s going to take “test, trace and isolate.” By Mary Papenfuss The prestigious Lancet medical journal published a scathing and unusual editorial Friday pleading with American voters to pick a president this election who will “understand that public health should not be guided by partisan politics.” The editorial slams the Trump administration’s “inconsistent and incoherent national response” to the COVID-19 crisis as cases continue to grow. “The administration is obsessed with magic bullets — vaccines, new medicines, or a hope that the virus will simply disappear,” the editorial notes in a not-so-veiled swipe at President Donald Trump’s approach. ”But only a steadfast reliance on basic public health principles, like test, trace and isolate, will see the emergency brought to an end, and this requires an effective national public health agency,” The Lancet added. The editorial also mourns the faded glory of the once mighty Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has been slashed by repeated budget cuts by Republican administrations — and demeaned and manipulated by the Trump administration. The CDC was a “national pillar of public health and globally respected,” once “regarded as the gold standard for global disease detection and control,” the editorial notes. But the disease-fighting process has been hijacked by a partisan political approach that does not bode well for America’s fight against COVID-19, The Lancet warned. The journal pleaded: “Americans must put a president in the White House come January 2021 who will understand that public health should not be guided by partisan politics.” Read the entire editorial here.

To: longnshort who wrote (1230543)	5/17/2020 9:50:59 AM
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CORRUPT LIAR tRump’s New COVID-19 Czar Holds $10 Million In Stock Options In Vaccine Company huffpost.com Elizabeth Warren slammed the “huge conflict of interest,” and demanded Moncef Slaoui “divest immediately.” By Mary Papenfuss Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has slammed COVID-19 vaccine czar Moncef Slaoui’s “huge conflict of interest” after required federal filings revealed he holds $10 million in stock options in one of the companies working to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. Warren demanded that Slaoui “divest immediately.” Elizabeth Warren ?@SenWarren It is a huge conflict of interest for the White House’s new vaccine czar to own $10 million of stock in a company receiving government funding to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. Dr. Slaoui should divest immediately. t.co Trump unveils audacious plan to develop Covid-19 vaccine by end of 2020 Trump deputies left no ambiguity: Drug companies and the government, they said, will manufacture “hundreds of millions” of vaccine doses by the end of 2020. statnews.com 24.9K 2:24 PM - May 15, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 11K people are talking about this Slaoui, a former pharmaceutical executive, was named “chief scientist” on Friday for President Donald Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed,” a COVID-19 vaccine development operation. In order to take the new role, he stepped down from his position on the board of directors of biotech company Moderna Inc., which is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. But Slaoui still owns 155,000 Moderna stock options, totaling more than $10 million as of Friday, according to Business Insider. Slaoui’s economic interest in the company could influence government support for Moderna over other companies that may be more successful in their hunt for a vaccine. Moderna last month announced that it received $483 million in federal funding for vaccine development, which sent its stocks up 15%, CNBC reported. When he was introduced on Friday by Trump in a Rose Garden press briefing, Slaoui said the president’s aim to have a vaccine by the end of the year was “credible,” though it would be “extremely challenging.” Slaoui said he was “more confident” after seeing “early data from a clinical trial.” He did not name which company was conducting the trial. But health publication Stat News said that it was probably Moderna, the company Slaoui stands to profit from, because he likely had access to that information. Moderna’s experimental coronavirus vaccine just entered Phase 2 of clinical trials, The New York Times reported. ABC News ?@ABC NEW: Pres. Trump appoints former pharmaceutical executive Moncef Slaoui and Army Gen. Gustave Perna to lead vaccine development. The two struck notes of optimism about the hoped-for pace of development, while conceding it will be a "herculean task." t.co 620 10:24 AM - May 15, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 491 people are talking about this Slaoui could not immediately be reach for comment by HuffPost.

To: longnshort who wrote (1230543)	5/17/2020 9:55:44 AM
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OBAMA RIPS tRUMP ADMIN's FAILED PANDEMIC RESPONSE IN COLLEGE ADDRESS huffpost.com “A lot of them aren’t even pretending to be in charge,” former President Barack Obama said in a commencement address to HBCU graduates. By Sebastian Murdock Former President Barack Obama tore into the failed pandemic response by President Donald Trump’s administration in a college commencement address on Saturday. Obama spoke to the class of 2020 of the 74 historically black colleges and universities across the United States as part of a two-hour video event. He also addressed communities of color that are disproportionally affected by the deadly coronavirus disease. “You’re being asked to find your way in the world in the middle of a devastating pandemic and terrible recession,” Obama said. “The timing is not ideal. And let’s be honest — a disease like this just spotlights the underlying inequalities and extra burdens that black communities have historically had to deal with in this country.” Obama then took a shot at the Trump White House, without naming the president directly. “More than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they’re doing. A lot of them aren’t even pretending to be in charge.” The Trump administration has continually fallen short in its response to the pandemic, in which nearly 90,000 Americans have died. Following Obama’s speech, Trump tweeted a single response to the former president: “OBAMAGATE!” — a reference to Trump’s vague accusation of crimes by the former president, which Trump has declined to explain. Read Obama’s full commencement speech here.