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White House reporter @washingtonpost . Co-author of "Nightmare Scenario.” Formerly @reuters . yasmeen.abutaleb @washpost .com

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Thread on what we found: The White House got its first formal notification about coronavirus on Jan 3. Within days, US spy agencies were signaling the seriousness of the threat by including the first of many warnings in the President’s Daily Brief
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Stanford faculty passed a resolution tonight condemning Trump's pandemic adviser Scott Atlas. "Atlas’s disdain for established medical knowledge violates medical ethics," they write. "His pronouncements are damaging Stanford’s reputation and academic standing."
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A list obtained by WaPo shows Trump interacted w/ 207 ppl at Bedminster the day he tested positive. He didn't wear a mask on plane/helicopter after Hicks' infection. Aides say Trump, others infected were around thousands. And now, little contact tracing.
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NEW: We obtained nearly 900 pages of Fauci's emails from March and April 2020, opening a window into Fauci's world during the chaotic early days of the crisis. "All is well despite some crazy people in this world," he wrote in one note. w/ @damianpaletta
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Trump hasn't attended a task force meeting in months. Career officials are taking notes on shortcomings in the pandemic response, hoping the incoming Biden admin can address them. Inside the (lack of) response, w/ @AshleyRParker @jdawsey1 @PhilipRucker
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NEW: Scott Atlas has shot down attempts to expand testing, feuded with other docs, argued masks don't help and advocated herd immunity. And he's consolidated power over the response as cases surge. Latest deep dive w/ @PhilipRucker @jdawsey1 @costareports
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After disastrous communications during the 2001 anthrax attacks, the CDC wrote a 450-page manual for how to communicate during public health crises. Trump is breaking every rule in the playbook. via @Carolynyjohnson @thewanreport
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4 years
The top health official, Azar, called Trump on Jan. 18 to warn him about coronavirus. Before he could get a word in, Trump interjected to berate him about a fumbled vaping flavor ban. Azar asked a confidante for advice about how to break through to Trump
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2 years
New: A group of 30 liberal lawmakers is calling on Biden to shift his strategy on the Ukraine war and pursue direct negotiations with Russia to reach a ceasefire. It marks the first time prominent Democrats have pushed Biden to change his strategy.
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Fauci spoke bluntly with @jdawsey1 & me abt the difficult winter ahead, the diminishing influence of the task force, how he and Birx rarely see the president and the administration's response. "We’re in for a whole lot of hurt. It’s not a good situation."
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NEW: Kushner has set up his own team outside of the official coronavirus task force overseen by Pence made up of gov allies and private industry reps that some have dubbed a "shadow task force". He went on the record to explain. w/ @AshleyRParker @jdawsey1
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More detail: The game-changer was data officials reviewed yesterday showing that vaxxed ppl infected with delta have the same viral load as unvaxxed. Vaccinated are still far less likely to get seriously sick, but the data suggests they can transmit delta.
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4 years
The delays in finally sending a supplemental to Congress, then getting it signed meant the US missed a narrow window to stockpile ventilators, masks and other protective gear before the US was bidding against many desperate nations
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NEW: The coronavirus effort led by Kushner has partly relied on volunteers from PE and consulting firms. One grew so concerned about the inexperience of those securing PPE for hospitals that they filed a complaint w/ House Oversight. w/ @AshleyRParker
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NEW: There was an extraordinary effort to get Trump experimental lifesaving drugs when he was sick with covid-19. His medical advisers hoped it would be the turning point. They were wrong. Excerpt from "Nightmare Scenario," out Tues. w/ @damianpaletta
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In early February, deputy NSC adviser Matt Pottinger wanted to ban travel to Europe as more cases popped up. He was backed by health officials like Fauci. But Mnuchin and others pushed back over concerns about the economy and prevailed
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An internal March GOP poll showed that far more Republicans than Democrats were influenced by Trump’s dismissive depictions of the virus. “Denial is not likely to be a successful strategy for survival,” the pollster concluded.
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4 years
"I find our testing record nothing to celebrate whatsoever," Romney says, criticizing the administration's news conference yesterday heralding its testing capacity.
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4 years
There was little thought put into the makeup of the president’s coronavirus task force, which for weeks focused almost entirely on repatriation. “It wasn’t a comprehensive, whole-of-gov response,” one official said.
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During a Feb. 27 call to resolve testing issues, an FDA official lashed out at the CDC because of a failure to meet basic quality control standards. He told them if he were inspecting a commercial entity, "I would shut you down."
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3 years
NEW: An internal CDC document says it's time to "acknowledge the war has changed" with the delta variant, which it says is likely to cause more severe illness and vaccinated ppl can spread. Exclusive w/ @Carolynyjohnson @JoelAchenbach
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4 years
Trump says the risk to Americans is "very, very, very low." Today, Fauci said, "This is a really serious problem that we have to take seriously."
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4 years
Trump wants states to reopen next month — but experts, governors, businesses and politicians say you can't do that without broad testing. But the admin is leaving that up to the states, even though many say they need gov help. w/ @PhilipRucker @jdawsey1
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2 years
End of an era: Anthony Fauci will step down in Dec after 54 years in government. I spoke with Fauci at length about his career, political divisions + more. “I felt I had an obligation … to be the person who speaks for science and speaks for the truth.”
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On testing: The first mistake came by a misplaced assessment by health officials (based on very limited available data) that the outbreak would be limited in scale and the CDC test would be enough, as it had been for most previous outbreaks.
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4 years
There were drawn out fights over a supplemental request to fight the virus b/w the WH and health agencies. At one point, a deputy in the budget office accused Azar of preemptively lobbying Congress for a gigantic sum that WH officials had no interest in.
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Fauci says the U.S. death toll is likely higher than the 80,000+ reported. He points to NY, where he says the health care system was overwhelmed and many people could have died at home and not been counted as a covid death.
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4 years
Some worried the CDC test wouldn't be enough in case there was a surge of cases. When FDA leaders consulted HHS on whether Hahn should reach out to private companies for help and whether it would be bad optics, they believed they should stand down.
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2 years
New: Biden is poised to secure three big legislative wins in Congress: - prescription drug pricing bill - bipartisan CHIPS bill - same-sex marriage bill It could be a much-needed boost after Biden's leg agenda seemed to be foundering. w/ @mikedebonis
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2 years
“When my predecessor got Covid, he had to get helicoptered to Walter Reed,” Biden says. “When I got Covid, I worked upstairs in the White House.”
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3 years
Little from Trump/Pence about covid, but Fauci + Birx both issued stark warnings ahead of the election. Fauci: "You could not possibly be positioned more poorly." Birx: “We are entering the most concerning and most deadly phase" cc: @jdawsey1 @bylenasun
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4 years
NEW: Trump is trying to convince Americans it's safe to inch back to normal. In doing so, the admin is asking people to accept that a daily, steady accumulation of deaths is the grim cost of reopening. w/ @jdawsey1 @AshleyRParker @PhilipRucker
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4 years
A small personal anecdote: My family has had relatives from Egypt call in the last couple of days to ask if we're all okay because of the images they're seeing on TV. One remarked that to them, it looked like the U.S. was having its own sort of Arab spring.
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A sobering warning from the CDC director: A second wave of coronavirus could be even more dire than it is now because it’s likely to coincide with flu season. Via @bylenasun , with an incredibly newsy interview
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4 years
How Trump spent the month of May: distractions and grievances as the U.S. reached a bleak milestone of 100,000 deaths — and states are still struggling to ramp up testing and contact tracing. w/ @costareports @PhilipRucker @jdawsey1
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Yasmeen Abutaleb
3 years
"My message to unvaccinated Americans is this: What more is there to wait for? What more do you need to see? We've made vaccinations free, safe and convenient," Biden says in a final plea.
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4 years
Navarro here alleges Fauci was against the China travel restrictions. That's not true. Several officials were initially against it. Fauci ended up supporting it - before it was announced - after they got more data on asymptomatic spread, per several ppl.
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NEW: The White House has not undertaken a serious contact tracing effort despite a growing list of confirmed infections. There hasn't even been guidance circulated to rattled staffers. w/ @jdawsey1 @isaacstanbecker @JoelAchenbach
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NEW: Covid cases are surging, but Fauci no longer briefs Trump. Our deep dive into the deteriorating relationship b/w the two and why, despite tension over his public comments, Fauci has no plans to do anything differently. w/ @jdawsey1 @lauriemcginley2
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4 years
In a mid-February Situation Room meeting, Fauci and CDC director Redfield told White House officials there was not yet evidence of worrisome person-to-person transmission. It was almost certainly spreading - but even top experts had little meaningful data
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Yasmeen Abutaleb
5 years
It’s my first day at @washingtonpost ! I’m still getting settled, but tell me what I should be looking into in the health policy world. Say hi at yasmeen.abutaleb @washpost .com
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2 years
A tale of many pandemics: in year 3, the way you experience the pandemic depends on your health, power and access. Gov’t leaders say people have the tools to protect themselves, but there are vast inequities in ability to get/use those tools. My latest:
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3 years
"A mask is not a political statement — but it is a good way to start pulling the country together," Biden says, imploring people to wear masks. "It's to give something back to all of us: a normal life."
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4 years
In one task force meeting, Trump suggested he and Fauci do a good-cop, bad-cop routine at that day's briefing. Inside the White House's (many) task forces, none of which have yet produced a cohesive plan to beat the pandemic. w/ @AshleyRParker @jdawsey1
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NEW: CDC is expected to recommend vaccinated individuals wear masks indoors in public settings in some circumstances. Also advising vaxxed w/ vulnerable ppl in their house to wear masks indoors in public settings. w/ @JoelAchenbach @ddiamond @mradamtaylor
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2 years
NEW: CDC guidance halving isolation/quarantine times was “based on the anticipation of a large # of cases might impact societal function,” Rochelle Walensky told us. Some experts worry it could contribute to transmission. w/ @WaPoSean @emrosenberg
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4 years
NEW: This week's record surge was the clearest sign yet of the country's failure to control the pandemic. Meanwhile, the White House has blocked Fauci from some appearances he's requested to do in recent weeks. w/ @ToluseO @jdawsey1
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4 years
🚨 🚨 from @jdawsey1 : Former Pence aide Olivia Troye, who was a senior adviser on the WH coronavirus task force, says she will vote for Biden because of Trump’s “flat out disregard for human life” during the pandemic
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3 years
That was fast! Biden announced his 13-member transition coronavirus task force this morning, made up entirely of doctors + health experts. They'll work with state and local officials to craft policies as the pandemic enters its worst stretch
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4 years
Azar, the nation's top health official, said that health care workers don't get covid because they wear masks, wash their hands, etc. 85,000 have gotten infected and 500+ have died, according to the CDC — and that's considered a dramatic undercount.
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This week, Fauci described the coronavirus as an outbreak reaching "likely pandemic proportions." But WH officials overseeing the response were miffed that Fauci used the word "pandemic" without giving them a heads up. w/ @PhilipRucker @AshleyRParker
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4 years
Trump is so fixated on having a coronavirus vaccine that little else in meetings about the response captures his attention. He's fixated on the promise of a vaccine — real or not — as key to his reelection. w/ @PhilipRucker @jdawsey1
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4 years
States and businesses are pleading for more federal help on expanding testing, pointing to unused tests and supply shortages as problems the federal gov could help resolve through better coordination. w/ @StevenMufson @eilperin
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Yasmeen Abutaleb
4 years
Some events of this week: - Trump calls FDA "deep state" - Next day, FDA announces authorization on plasma - Hahn apologizes for misstating plasma's benefits - CDC changes testing guidelines --> outcry from health officials - Top FDA comms officials ousted
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4 years
Trump's newest medical adviser, Scott Atlas, is pushing the WH to embrace a herd immunity strategy, which would result in many, many more deaths. The admin has already implemented some policies along these lines, officials + experts say. w/ @jdawsey1
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4 years
This is an amazing - and horrifying - graphic of how the outbreak for weeks quietly seeded itself all over the country in February and March, while we were all mostly living our normal lives.
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2 years
Biden was most likely infected by BA5, his physician Kevin O’Connor said today. His symptoms include sore throat, runny nose, loose cough and body aches but he’s improving, O’Connor says.
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4 years
Fauci on states prematurely reopening: "There is a real risk that you will trigger an outbreak you may not be able to control ... not only leading to some suffering and death that could be avoided, but could even set you back on the road to get to an economic recovery."
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6 years
Delivering the royal family's baby in a luxury hospital wing that provides a wine list to celebrate the birth still costs less than the average American birth, where no celebratory drinks are provided, as far as I know
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4 years
Rather than humbling him, Trump’s recovery from covid has only strengthened his belief that the threat of the virus is overblown. Some advisers see it as a missed opportunity to relate to millions of Americans. w/ @jdawsey1
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3 years
Amid the noise, pay attention to covid cases: 145,000 yesterday, today more than 152,000 and 66,000+ hospitalizations. No acknowledgment of this devastating surge from Trump or Pence, nor a national message on how people should be protecting themselves.
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3 years
The FDA has not approved a vaccine
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If Joe Biden were President, you wouldn’t have the Vaccine for another four years, nor would the @US_FDA have ever approved it so quickly. The bureaucracy would have destroyed millions of lives!
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4 years
Birx and Fauci have pushed hard to dramatically expand testing. They've advocated using unspent money Congress allocated for testing, which amounts to $9 billion. Atlas has shot them down repeatedly, arguing young and healthy ppl do not need to get tested.
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6 years
This may be a dumb question but is there any score, or will there be a score, assessing the impact of the latest tax bill?
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Yasmeen Abutaleb
4 years
Trump announced yesterday the gov was partnering with private companies to set up drive-through testing. But several key participants said the admin was overstating its plans, including scope and timetable. w/ @goldsteinamy @lauriemcginley2
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4 years
No matter who wins, there'll be a chaotic transition with big changes to the pandemic response. Biden's team is preparing for the possibility that Trump, if he loses, would block them from access to gov resources. w/ @agearan @goldsteinamy @jdawsey1
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4 years
Fauci makes a plea with everyone to do their part to bring the pandemic under control. The majority of people getting infected now are young people, he says, who have been going out. "We are all in it together and the only way we’re going to end it is by ending it together."
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4 years
NEW: 70 squandered days until Trump took coronavirus seriously. Our reconstruct of fights over money, warnings unheeded, a cascade of testing failures + institutional failures that left the US unprepared. w/ @jdawsey1 @nakashimae @gregpmiller
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4 years
MORE on tonight’s developments: Azar was blindsided by the decision to make Pence the head of the coronavirus response. He was told only moments before Trump’s comments tonight, from @jdawsey1 and me
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2 years
New: About a third of the country is experiencing rising caseloads and hospitalizations that means ppl should wear masks again. Daily cases are back up at ~100,000/day, which is surely an undercount because of at-home tests.
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1 year
President Biden next week will announce U.S. support for the African Union — which represents the 55 states on the continent — to become a permanent member of the G20, a long-sought prize of African nations.
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2 years
Some personal news: Thrilled to share I'm joining @washingtonpost 's all-star White House team. I'm forever indebted to my health/science colleagues, who are still unrelenting in their coverage of covid + monkeypox, but very excited for this next chapter.
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4 years
Trump's scientists often tell him things he doesn't want to hear. His longer relationships with economic allies, who want to reopen the economy, has led to a tug-of-war over coronavirus policy. w/ @AshleyRParker @jdawsey1
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4 years
“I believe America deserves a larger, better-funded response. The team generally works 12+ hour days, seven days per week, but frankly has little to show for it," the volunteer's complaint states.
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3 years
Scott Atlas, who for months met almost daily with Trump and advocated what amounted to a herd immunity strategy, resigned on Monday. He had become widely disliked in the White House, even among aides who agreed with his approach. w/ @jdawsey1
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"What kind of nefarious spirit possessed the Birx that AIDS activists have loved and adored for years? Where did she go? We no longer recognize her, and it’s too late for an exorcism," @peterstaley said. A deep dive on Birx, w/ @AshleyRParker @jdawsey1
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The White House’s character assault on Fauci has produced a chilling effect among government scientists and public health professionals trying to end the pandemic. Our latest, w/ @PhilipRucker @lauriemcginley2 @jdawsey1
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SCOOP: HHS sent workers to assist with coronavirus-exposed U.S. passengers evacuated from Wuhan without proper training or protective gear, according to a whistleblower complaint. w/ the incomparable @bylenasun
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3 years
As the White House contended with one outbreak after another, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows tried to conceal some of the cases. He also threatened to fire White House Medical Unit doctors if they helped release info about infections.
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4 years
Michael Caputo, the top health communications official, warned of an armed insurrection after the election, called on people to “buy ammunition” and baselessly accused gov scientists of “sedition.” w/ @bylenasun @jdawsey1 @PostRoz (h/t @nytimes )
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Yasmeen Abutaleb
5 years
Personal update: After five wonderful years at @Reuters , I'll be starting a new gig at @washingtonpost this month as a health policy reporter. I have absolutely loved my time at Reuters but am very excited for this next chapter. Send me your story ideas/tips!
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4 years
NEW: Kushner saw the admin floundering in its coronavirus response and inserted himself. He called execs to expand testing - but Trump’s big announcement Friday was only half baked. The latest inside the response, w/ @AshleyRParker @PhilipRucker @jdawsey1
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2 years
The White House said Biden is "reevaluating" the Saudi relationship. @ChrisMurphyCT : “The whole point of looking the other way when it comes to .. their awful human rights record was to make sure they would pick us .. instead they chose the Russians."
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NEW: Our deep dive into Trump's desperate push to reopen the country, despite falling short on many of the factors experts say are needed to safely reopen. w/ @PhilipRucker @jdawsey1 @costareports @bylenasun
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The CDC halved its recommended quarantine and isolation times as omicron surges to 5 days. It "reflects a growing reality we’re going to have to learn to live with COVID as a persistent risk, and can’t let it shut down society," @ScottGottliebMD says.
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2 years
New: More than 80 Democratic lawmakers signed a letter, being sent tonight, urging Biden to declare a national emergency and public health emergency in the wake of the Roe v. Wade ruling. Biden's aides are divided, but it's under discussion.
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4 years
NEW: The Trump administration is encouraging Obamacare individual market consumers to use outside brokers to sign up for coverage, who are allowed to sell skimpy health insurance plans that don't provide comprehensive coverage.
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Yasmeen Abutaleb
3 years
Haven’t had any bylines in a while - but it’s because @damianpaletta and I have been writing a book! Thrilled to be working with @jonathanjao and team at @HarperCollins on “Nightmare Scenario,” out June 29
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NEW: Washington Post journalists @yabutaleb7 and @damianpaletta will be out June 29 with "Nightmare Scenario," a scoopy narrative of President Trump's chaotic response to the pandemic.
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NEW: Trump only learned after the fact that 14 Americans w/ coronavirus from a cruise ship would fly back with healthy passengers. He’s infuriated at his advisers and said he should have been told and made the final decision. w/ @jdawsey1
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Trump has all but moved on from coronavirus, declaring victory as the death toll surpasses 107,000. He's talking mostly about other topics, including job growth and law and order, and the coronavirus task force meets sparingly. w/ @ToluseO @jdawsey1
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3 years
CDC acknowledges in doc it needs to revamp public comms. Vaccines are still highly effective and best tool we have, but breakthroughs are more common than they’ve so far suggested. It still needs to convince ppl to get vaccinated to prevent more spread.
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One day before Trump's confirmed case, RNC chair Ronna McDaniel tested positive. She had been around him, but didn't disclose her results publicly or to Trump for two days — and only after Trump disclosed. @isaacstanbecker @PostRoz @jdawsey1 @AmyEGardner
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