The White House Personnel Officer, Mark Meadows, sparked controversy yesterday, October 25, stating in an interview with CNN that US will not be able to control the pandemic.
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Meadows said that despite federal and state authorities efforts to contain the virus, the government will focus primarily on mitigation factors such as vaccines and therapeutic treatments. in the awareness that Covid-19 is as contagious as seasonal flu.
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Meadows’s words sparked immediate reactions from President Trump’s opponents: US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden called Meadows’ statements an admission that Trump raised the white flag in the fight against the pandemic. It was not a mistake by Meadows, Biden wrote in a statement. It was an honest remark about President Trump’s strategy since the start of the crisis: to wave the white flag of defeat and hope that if we ignore it, the virus will go away. It wasn’t like that. And it won’t be, he said. They admit defeat, Biden deputy Kamala Harris confirmed, reiterating that this was the biggest failure of any presidential administration in US history. They have renounced their right to a second term, the summary he gave from Michigan, a disputed state where it was on an election tour.
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The former president, Barack Obama, has also arrived: Eight months after the start of the pandemic, as new cases are breaking records, we need an administration that does not wave the white flag. A year ago today, Joe Biden was writing about the leadership we need to prepare for a pandemic, and he has a plan to keep it under control, he tweeted. We have the vaccines, we have everything, let’s move on. Even without the vaccines, we will move on. Finir, he cut Trump short from his rally in New Hampshire.
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October 26, 2020 (change October 26, 2020 | 11:15 am)
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