course of a week. we are still knee-deep in the first wave of this. we cannot ignore it, and we cannot call it a hoax. and we cannot misrepresent the facts. that was also july. now everyone knows covid was a health crisis, but it also morphed into a misinformation and propaganda crisis. as donald trump now runs for office again, it is worth recalling the lengths he went to blame and confuse the issue. he took the unprecedented step of making the u.s. formally quit the main international body for coordinating this kind of response, exiting the world health organization in the middle of a pandemic. you saw that in a movie, it might seem like a hard plot point to believe. that was amidst the testing shortage, cases peaking. and there were other steps as well. trump later made a step toward publicly supporting masks, even publicly donning one himself. these tapes also show that no
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know, if you know, president nixon? there are other presidents who when it comes to that part of the job could have done that, working off the facts. this president failed to do that. that is pretty established. so my question to you going forward is, is there any way that we can summon the reaction we get to a foreign threat or to a 9/11 to something like this? you imagine if this were bio war, people might have actually done more than what we lived through where it was almost seen as, well, i guess it s a hurricane, i guess we ll wait around and deal. i think some of us did think it was on that level, though. i think that if you were you didn t even have to work inside of hospitals or watch the morgue trucks backing up. now we have over 100 million americans that have had covid or have had some cases of covid, they suspected. everybody knows someone who s died from covid or more people. 100 plus deaths from it of patients i know. we all felt like we were living that war.
was no fault of anybody s. it just happened. except maybe china. our special continues and we are joined by dr. ka vitae patel, former white house medical adviser, bob woodward. what stands out to you? it s remarkable that we have a parallel universe that donald trump was living in. you described where he got his information from, who he did not listen to. he had this covid task force that he asked vice president pence to put together. it was basically for theater because, as we know, all of the recommendations fauci, burks, anybody that was part of that team, including pence himself, he didn t take that advice, nor did he even heed the advice of doctors or people that he talked to describing how bad the virus was. and i think what s hard for those of us who were kind of working clinically and policy-wise as well, in parallel, there were those mask shortages, confusion about whether this was airborne, what kind of direction we could give
because i don t want to create a panic. that was march. it was early in that period when covid was heading through america, but it was also clear this couldn t be played down. covid first ravaged new york city, it was the epicenter. schools closed march 15th. there was the impending ventilator shortage. trump s first foray into emergencies was limiting ventilators furnished by the government. ten days later, new york hospitals were described as that apocalyptic scene. references to a mysterious new virus killing patients in ways doctors could not yet understand let alone prevent. that was not a surprise to then president trump or white house officials, because this had been laid out in briefings and warnings and intelligence. which brings us back to these woodward tapes. trump tells the journalists something that is damning, given that overall record. trump recounts how he told his own son, barron that warnings were needed months earlier.
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