{"id":29726,"date":"2020-12-04T16:33:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T00:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29726"},"modified":"2020-12-04T16:33:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T00:33:23","slug":"trump-largely-silent-on-covid-19-as-health-officials-sound-the-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29726","title":{"rendered":"Trump largely silent on COVID-19 as health officials sound the alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump administration health officials are issuing increasingly dire warnings about the coronavirus and its rapid spread across the country, drawing a sharp contrast to the president\u2019s reluctance to acknowledge the severity of the crisis head-on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/cdtqvkhrmttfskstfgcmmfqqmhfzthtnnlmrkjzthclhdq_lgqmjjgkgrmnzwmkzjgj.html?a=&amp;b=35294\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/cdtqvkhrmttfskstfgcmmfqqmhfzthtnnlmrkjzthclhdq_lgqmjjgkgrmnzwmkzjgj.html?a%3D%26b%3D35294&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607206995970000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFYQfau4BV_rBSkT1e3F68ICseFtg\">President Trump<\/a>\u00a0has been largely silent when it comes to warning the public about the need for precautions or announcing major new steps aimed at curbing the spread of the virus before a vaccine is widely available.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, many of his public statements have focused on election conspiracy theories and his refusal to accept the results, underscored by a 46-minute video\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ihgzptgkcyywrtrywbmccwzzcgwqygyffdcktnqygmdghc_lgqmjjgkgrmnzwmkzjgj.html?a=&amp;b=35294\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ihgzptgkcyywrtrywbmccwzzcgwqygyffdcktnqygmdghc_lgqmjjgkgrmnzwmkzjgj.html?a%3D%26b%3D35294&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607206995970000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEY4hWfdbydP4CAP_PG3GbqjW2roQ\">he posted to<\/a>\u00a0Facebook on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has made little use of his White House megaphone to warn the public,\u00a0including his supporters, about the increasing dangers posed by the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p><em>In contrast, Trump\u2019s health officials are issuing strong warnings<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CDC Director Robert Redfield warned on Wednesday that December, January and February are \u201cgoing to be the most difficult time in the public health history of this nation.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The White House coronavirus task force sent a report, dated Sunday, to states sounding the alarm on several fronts, including that \u201ca further post-Thanksgiving surge will compromise COVID patient care, as well as medical care overall\u201d as hospitals are overwhelmed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump administration health officials are issuing&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29727,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29726\/revisions\/29727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}