Trumpâs policies caused tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths, report says Former President Trumpâs policies worsened decades of neglect of the U.S. public health system, a new medical journal report says. (Source: CNN/Pool) By CNN Staff | February 11, 2021 at 9:53 AM CST - Updated February 11 at 9:53 AM
(CNN) â A report from the medical journal The Lancet says former President Donald Trumpâs policies caused tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths.
The Carrizo Springs Influx Care Facility (ICF) in southern Texas was constructed by the Trump administration in June 2019 and can temporarily house around 700 children in hard-sided structures with the ability to hold overflow in soft-sided structures, the spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Migrants have not been sheltered at the facility since late July 2019 and children under the age of 13 will not be permitted to stay at the facility.
Utilizing temporary ICFs is one step to prevent UAC from remaining in CBP [Customs and Border Protection] facilities for longer than necessary, and ensure that children are placed in an appropriate setting where they can receive care and services, such as education, medical and mental health care, counseling, recreation, and access to legal services, a spokesperson for the HHS Administration for Children and Families (ACF) told the DCNF.
New Bristol variant could re-infect previously infected or vaccinated people, UK government science adviser says
From CNN s Hannah Ritchie
People wait outside a coronavirus surge testing center at a library in Bristol, England, on February 9, following the identification of a mutated variant in the region. Ben Birchall/PA Images/Getty Images
A new coronavirus mutation known as the Bristol variant might infect people who were previously infected, or have been previously vaccinated, Professor John Edmunds, a member of the UK government s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) said Thursday. I don t know whether the Bristol variant is any more transmissible than the Kent variant. I suspect it isn t, Edmunds told ITV News.
Christopher Wilson
February 11, 2021, 2:00 AM
A damning new study by the Lancet, one of the world’s leading medical journals, found that Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic while he was president exacerbated problems that had been accruing over four decades of government neglect, leading to Americans dying of COVID-19 at a higher rate than people in other high-income nations.
The report commissioned by The Lancet, a British publication, laid out how years of declining spending on public health and an increase in wealth inequality combined with COVID-19 to cause avoidable deaths in the United States, with a disproportionate effect on minority communities. The authors found that 40 percent of the more than 400,000 American virus deaths as of mid-January could have been averted if the U.S. had a mortality rate in line with those of the other G-7 nations (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the U.K.).
The Atlantic
Without quite meaning to, Trump reminded journalists that their relationship to power should be adversarial.
February 11, 2021
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Thrilling, without a single boring day: That’s how I’d describe my four years as an enemy of the people, a lanyard-wearing member of the “
I miss it already. I miss it terribly, even if I miss little else about the past four years. Without quite meaning to, Trump reminded journalists that their relationship to power should be adversarial. I hope my colleagues in the press corps (I am a national correspondent for Yahoo News) remember that, as some measure of pre-Trumpian courtliness returns to the White House briefing room.