World Health Org. Official Humiliates Trump Over Corona Virus Lies

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Before taking office, President Donald Trump’s “experience” mainly consisted of putting his name in big gold letters on buildings — and it’s showing. One of his incompetent responses to the growing threat to the U.S. from the Coronavirus has been to suggest that duly proceeding news coverage of the situation is a conspiracy to make him look bad. Now, following an all-over-the-map press conference that he held about the situation on Wednesday evening, one official who went from the Obama administration to the World Health Organization has come out to denounce the president’s commentary as “incoherent.”

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, who currently serves as a special adviser to the director general of the World Health Organization, gravely questioned how competent Trump really is to be speaking about and leading responses to the virus in any capacity.

Referring to the press conference, Emanuel explained:

‘I found most of what he said a little incoherent. You know, he’s a guy that admitted that he’s surprised that 25,000 to 69,000 people each year die of the flu. That just tells you how little he actually knows about public health and about the health of the American public, because every doctor knows that, and lots of health policy experts know that. He just revealed how ignorant he is about the situation.’

He continued with an example of the ineptitude of the president, who claimed that the disease is a lot like the flu and should be handled the same way (although it’s definitely not). Emanuel explained:

‘We don’t know how similar or dissimilar this is to the flu. We know one thing. It is actually more communicable than the flu. It passes between people very, very easily.’

Indeed — hospitals are having to prepare for potentially Coronavirus-affected patients with airborne infection isolation rooms, meaning that the risk of spread is very high. Just this Wednesday, a community-transmitted case of the disease was reported in the U.S. for the first time. The patient had no apparent prolonged personal contact with a person who’d traveled overseas or had the virus — they just got it from the community.

And Trump is still standing back with mockery of news coverage of the situation and emergency funding requests that members of Congress from both parties are deriding as inadequate.