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VIRAL

SHEDDING

On virus, Trump and health advisers go their separate ways

In this Sept. 28, 2020, file photo, Adm. Brett Giroir, assistant secretary of Health and Human Services, holds a swab manufactured by Puritan Medical Products as he
talks about a new COVID-19 test during a event with President Donald Trump about coronavirus testing in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington.
Associated Press
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR chief of staff Mark Meadows de- rate is 11%, above the level indi- recommended to restaurant goers.
Associated Press clared last Sunday “we’re not go- cating widespread transmission. The advice was to keep the mask
WASHINGTON (AP) — A multi-state ing to control the pandemic.” HHS Secretary Alex Azar, for his on when not eating, or “between
coronavirus surge in the count- Since then, Health and Human part, has a profile photo of himself bites.” An illustration showed a din-
down to Election Day has exposed Services Assistant Secretary Adm. masked up on his Twitter account. er masked while reading the menu
a clear split between President Brett Giroir has done a round of But Trump continues to ridicule and, later, while wiping her hands
Donald Trump’s bullish embrace interviews warning that the coun- masks and mask-wearing as he with a napkin after eating.
of a return to normalcy and urgent try’s situation is “tenuous” but that insists the U.S. has turned the cor- It might all be considered politi-
public warnings from the govern- Americans can indeed control the ner on the virus. At a reelection cal theater if the nation’s situation
ment’s top health officials. virus by practicing what he calls the rally Wednesday in Bullhead City, weren’t so serious.
It’s the opposite of what usually “3W’s” — watching your distance Arizona, the president painted a “We are in a third wave,” said Mar-
happens in a public health crisis, from others, wearing a mask and sardonic word picture of left-coast ta Wosinska of the Duke-Margolis
because political leaders tend to frequently washing your hands. Californians trying to eat through Center for Health Policy. “We are
repeat and amplify the recom- White House coronavirus adviser their masks. seeing pretty dramatic increases in
mendations of their health ex- Dr. Deborah Birx, touring the states “How about California ... where the number of people hospitalized
perts, not short-circuit them. “It’s to raise prevention awareness, la- you are supposed to eat with the and an uptick in deaths.”
extremely unusual for there to be mented in Bismarck, North Dako- mask (and) can’t take it off?” The White House insists there’s no
simultaneous contrary messaging,” ta, that she hadn’t seen such dis- Trump said. “You see people and, conflict between Trump and the
said John Auerbach, who heads dain for mask wearing elsewhere. boy, you know when you have health advisers who back in the
the nonpartisan Trust for America’s “We find that deeply unfortunate spaghetti and meat sauce ... you spring shared the briefing room po-
Health. because you don’t know who’s walk out it looks like you got into a dium with the president on many
The Republican president and the infected and you don’t know if fight.” an occasion.
health officials appear to be mov- you’re infected yourself,” she told That’s not actually what the Cali-
ing farther apart since White House reporters. The state’s positive test fornia governor’s office recently Continued on Page 2