A few days ago I mentioned President Trump’s greatest failure could be his response to COVID-19. Americans, especially old Americans, are dying because of that failure. (see President Trump continues to fail and lie so people die).

It is his ignoring of science and public heath that has resulted in many of the deaths. In particular, CDC was until the Trump Presidency one of the greatest public heath agency in world, if not actually the greatest.

President Trump’s constant interference in CDC’s public health role in the United States has been a disaster for Americans. There are now close to 220,00 of us dead and probably half or more of those would be alive if we had a better President.

For some new details on the Trump administration’s attacks on CDC, see Propublica’s Inside the Fall of the CDC.

For more of my writing on CDC see https://www.jackreidy.com/blog/?s=CDC.

Dr. William (Bill) Foege was the director when I started at CDC. Back then (1978) it was the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Now it is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They reorganized into a series of centers with focus in specific areas and added prevention to the name but kept the acronym.

I spent 30 years at CDC and so went through many changes of Directors. As far as I was concerned, Dr. Foege was the best.
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The most dangerous man in America is President Donald Trump.

Actually his past actions has already established that. He has made a series of moves that made the pandemic worse in the United States. He has promoted false cures and ignores science and public health measure.
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In a series of great moves, President Trump seems to be trying to make the current pandemic worse for all Americans, especially middle class and poor Americans. By the way, the death toll in the US is about 200,000 now.
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Do you remember CDC?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was once considered the best, or at least one of the best, public health agencies in the world. Until President Trump, they successfully guided the US though several epidemic and pandemics. Now the Trump administration is doing their best to ignore the advice of CDC and other public health experts as he fails to protect the American people from COVID-19.
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We are talking about President Trump’s politics and and how that relates to the large number of deaths due to his failed response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

I do not think President Trump was not responsible for the virus coming here. But he is responsible for the large number of deaths that resulted from his incompetence and lies about the problem to the American people.
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Back on March 15 President Trump (aka @realDonaldTrump ) tweeted “The USA was never set up for this, just look at the catastrophe of the H1N1 Swine Flu (Biden in charge, 17,000 people lost, very late response time), but it soon will be.”

Remember those days when 17,000 seems like such a big number. The message of the tweet was clearly that where Obama and Biden failed to save us in that pandemic, and President Trump would save us in this one. He would prepare the USA to fight the pandemic and certainly have a smaller number of deaths.
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President Trump told us of the CDC recommendation to wear a cloth face covering when in public to prevent the spread of coronavirus during his COVID-19 briefing Friday. But then he immediately undermined that message. The cited article starts like this:
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