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    SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19

    in AngelsSpin.com Political Talk

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    16 minutes ago, red321 said:

    Since Chuck apparently wanted to make sure this thread became political...

     

    Richard Burr (R - NC) has had himself quite a day. Richard Burr is chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and receives daily briefings on the virus, and has for quite some time.

    First off, recording of him warning wealthy donors, things were gonna be bad...while at the same time the administration was telling everyone it's all good

    https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/818192535/burr-recording-sparks-questions-about-private-comments-on-covid-19

    The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee warned a small group of well-connected constituents three weeks ago to prepare for dire economic and societal effects of the coronavirus, according to a secret recording obtained by NPR.

    The remarks from U.S. Sen. Richard Burr were more stark than any he had delivered in more public forums.

     

    Dude was just getting started apparently

    https://www.propublica.org/article/senator-dumped-up-to-1-6-million-of-stock-after-reassuring-public-about-coronavirus-preparedness

    Soon after he offered public assurances that the government was ready to battle the coronavirus, the powerful chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, sold off a significant percentage of his stocks, unloading between $582,029 and $1.56 million of his holdings on Feb. 13 in 29 separate transactions.

    As the head of the intelligence committee, Burr, a North Carolina Republican, has access to the government’s most highly classified information about threats to America’s security. His committee was receiving daily coronavirus briefings around this time, according to a Reuters story.

    A week after Burr’s sales, the stock market began a sharp decline and has lost about 30% since.

     

     

    edit: Damnit Adam...not back in this forum more than 15 minutes and already craig'd

     
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    This was absolutely brilliantly timed on the part of Probublica.  NPR drops their story 9 hours ago.  Burr acts like a whiny little twat in a series of 8 tweets over the NPR story.  Then.... boom goes the dynamite.

    SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19

    in AngelsSpin.com Political Talk

    Posted

    11 minutes ago, red321 said:

    At this point they need to remove the President from the daily press briefings, there is simply nothing coming out of his giant pie hole that is truthful or accurate

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/03/19/coronavirus-latest-news/#link-S7XBUFWPL5DO3LGQ2MTTUNZUQM

    President Trump incorrectly said in a Thursday news briefing that chloroquine, a malaria drug, has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration to fight the novel coronavirus and that there were plans to “make that drug available almost immediately.” But after Trump spoke, FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn clarified that chloroquine would first need to be tested for use on the virus.

    “We want to do that in the setting of a clinical trial, a large pragmatic clinical trial,” Hahn said.

    Trump had called the drug a possible “game changer.”

    “That’s where the FDA has been so great,” he said. “They’ve gone through the approval process, it’s been approved. They took it down from many, many months to immediate, so we’re going to be able to make that drug available by prescription.”

    But Hahn emphasized the importance of testing and safety.

    “We need to make sure that with these new treatments, we’ll get the right drug to the right patient at the right dosage at the right time,” he said. “As an example, we may have the right drug, but it may not be in the appropriate dosage from right now, and that may do more harm than good.”

    Jesus fucking Christ he's an imbecile.

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