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+ If Azar could get the drug, what would the White House need to do to make that happen? + Azar thought for a moment. It was Oct. 1, 2020, and the drug was still in clinical trials. The Food and Drug Administration would have to make a "compassionate use" exception for its use since it was not yet available to the public. Only about 10 people so far had used it outside of those trials. Azar said of course he would help. + Azar wasn't told who the drug was for but would later connect the dots. The patient was one of Pres-ident Donald Tr*mp's closest advisers: Hope Hicks. + A short time later, FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn received a request from a top White House official for a separate case, this time with even greater urgency: Could he get the FDA to sign off on a compassionate-use authorization for a monoclonal antibody right away?  There is a standard

process that doctors use to apply to the FDA for unapproved drugs on behalf of patients dealing with life-threatening illnesses who have exhausted all other options, and agency scientists review it. The difference was that most people don't call the commissioner directly. + The White House wanted Hahn to say yes within hours. Hahn, who still did not know who the application was for, consulted career officials. The FDA needs to go by the book, the officials insisted. + Hahn relayed the message back to the White House. They kept pressing him to effectively cut corners. No, we can't do that, Hahn told them several times. We're talking about someone's life. We have to actually examine the application to make sure we're doing it safely. + When Hahn later learned the effort was on behalf of the pres-ident, he was stunned. For God's sake, he thought, it's the pres-ident who's sick, and you want us to bend the rules? + Tr*mp was in the highest-risk category for severe disease from Covid-19 - at 74, he rarely exercised and was considered medically obese. He was the type of patient with whom you would want to take every possible precaution. As it did with all compassionate-use applications, the FDA made a decision within 24 hours. Agency officials scrambled to figure out which company's monoclonal antibody would be most appropriate given the clinical information they had, and selected the one from Regeneron, known simply as Regen-Cov. + A five-day stretch in October 2020 - from the moment White House officials began an extraordinary effort to get Tr*mp lifesaving drugs to the day the president returned to the White House from the hospital - marked a dramatic turning point in the nation's flailing coronavirus response. + Tr*mp's brush with severe illness and the prospect of death caught the White House so unprepared that they had not even briefed Vice President Mike Pence's team on a plan to swear him in if Tr*mp became incapacitated. + For months, the pres-ident had taunted and dodged the virus, flouting safety protocols by holding big rallies and packing the White House with maskless guests. But just one month before the election, the virus that had already killed more than 200,000 Americans had sickened the most powerful person on the planet. + Tr*mp's medical advisers hoped his bout with the coronavirus, which was far more serious than acknowledged at the time, would inspire him to take the virus seriously.  Perhaps now, they thought, he would encourage Americans to wear masks and put his health and medical officials front and center in the response. + Instead, Tr*mp emerged from the experience triumphant and ever more defiant. He urged people not to be afraid of the virus or let it dominate their lives, disregarding that he had had access to health care and treatments unavailable to other Americans. + It was, several advisers said, the last chance to turn the response around. And once the opportunity passed, it was the point of no return. (Remainder omitted.)

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+ A former federal prosecutor has called for the criminal prosecution of Donald Tr*mp, saying he was responsible for “an unabated crime wave as president.” + On (6-11-2021)  Friday’s episode of MSNBC’s “The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell,” Glenn Kirschner warned of a future “runaway criminal president” if Tr*mp is not held accountable for some of the “many” offenses he committed while in office. + Kirschner, who was a prosecutor in the District of Columbia’s U.S. attorney’s office for 24 years and now works as an MSNBC legal analyst, listed some of Tr*mp’s misdeeds, including being impeached over the Ukraine scandal and his administration’s obstruction of congressional proceedings. + “There are so many other offenses,” Kirschner said. “There are countless, avoidable COVID deaths that I think could be pursued by the states.  Then, of course, there is inciting the insurrection. We saw it with our own eyes.” + “If (Tr*mp) is not held accountable, if we don’t prosecute him, then what we are doing is we are encouraging tomorrow’s version of Donald Tr*mp,” Kirschner added. “We have to prosecute today’s version of Donald Tr*mp to send the message that we will not tolerate a runaway, criminal president.”

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+ The U.S. House of Representatives broke new ground Wednesday by impeaching a president for a second time, a week before he leaves office, indicting Pres-ident Tr*mp for inciting a riot with false claims of a stolen election that led to the storming of the Capitol and five deaths. ... + The House took a final vote Wednesday afternoon, one week after the riot and just two days after the impeachment resolution was filed. It was a stunningly swift response from a House that took nearly three months to impeach Tr*mp in 2019 on charges of abuse of power and contempt of Congress. + But with just seven days remaining in Tr*mp’s term, it became increasingly certain Wednesday that Tr*mp would not be removed from office prematurely. 

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+ "In the ongoing crisis, the rich countries have a moral responsibility to assist those countries that don't have the capability of doing that, particularly the low and middle-income countries," Fauci said, speaking to news outlet ANI on the topic of securing vaccines in India. + And vaccines aren't the only way developed nations can extend a helping hand."There was the immediate issue that needs to be addressed as taking care of the people that are already infected. Getting better supplies of oxygen, oxygen cylinders, oxygen generators, PPEs, therapies like Remdesivir and things like that, the things that the U.S. has helped with," Fauci said. + "But then probably in the intermediate and long run, you've got to figure out a

way how to get as many vaccinations administered to the people of India as possible," he added. + India is now the global epicenter of the COVID crisis, as the World Health Organization's chief scientist said this week that a more dangerous COVID variant was driving its surging numbers and mounting death toll.As of press time, India recorded over 23.7 million cases and 258,000 deaths. However, the actual death toll could be five to 10 times higher, as Reuters reported COVID deaths going under-reported and unrecorded. + Fauci's statement to ANI followed his urging of the US and other countries to step up and offer aid to India earlier this week (10 to 13 May 2021), in the form of vaccine and oxygen supplies.  He also has been vocal about what needs to be done in India to help curb the spread of COVID, including imposing a nationwide lockdown -- which Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has refused to do. + This is not the first time that Fauci has made a statement on the responsibility that developed countries have during the COVID crisis. In a May 5 interview with Politico he said the US had a "moral obligation" to share its COVID vaccines. tr*mp WH

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+ Facebook has increasingly become one of the most vital weapons in a political campaign’s arsenal, with its ability to juice small-dollar online-fund-raising numbers into the millions, expand and acquire contact information, help build out data on a campaign’s voter file and provide the most sophisticated advertising platform available. + Few campaigns had tapped into Facebook’s potential for advertising and fund-raising as aggressively as Mr. Tr*mp’s. His successful 2016 campaign said its prolific use of Facebook had allowed it to send millions of different, hyper-targeted political ads to small slices of the population. + “Facebook was the method,” Brad Parscale, the Tr*mp campaign manager in 2020 and digital director in 2016, told “60 Minutes” in 2017.  “It was the highway which his car drove on.”  That continued in 2020, as his re-election operation devoted a nine-figure budget to Facebook advertising.  And much as he did with his Twitter account, Mr. Tr*mp often turned to Facebook’s advertising

platform in times of political crisis. + During Mr. Tr*mp’s first impeachment trial in September 2019, his campaign began flooding Facebook with ads criticizing the impeachment as a hoax and subversive effort by far-left Democrats. + Though Mr. Tr*mp is out of office and living at his resort in Florida, he retains broad influence over the Republican Party.  But his platform for reaching Americans has diminished greatly without access to big social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, which has permanently suspended the former pres-ident.  Some Tr*mp aides think that the absence of Facebook, which was crucial to his success in 2016, will hinder him if he decides to run again in 2024, which he has told several advisers is his plan. + Facebook’s ruling was delivered by an oversight board, which also said the company’s indefinite suspension was “not appropriate’’ and gave Facebook six months to come up with a final decision on whether Mr. Tr*mp would regain access. + His Facebook ads proved a useful tool to draw out big crowds to his signature rallies.  Days before the president was scheduled to arrive in a given city, Facebook users around the region would begin seeing ads about the rally, with a link to sign up for a free ticket. + The decision by Facebook does not immediately hamper Mr. Tr*mp’s fund-raising ability — he still maintains control of a large number of supporter email addresses and phone numbers. But fund-raising lists must be continually refreshed, and Facebook has proved a crucial place for Mr. Tr*mp to do so.

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+ Biden is signing a flurry of executive orders, memorandums and directives to agencies, his first steps to address the coronavirus pandemic and undo some of former Pres-ident Donald Tr*mp's signature policies. ... + With the stroke of a pen, Biden has halted funding for the construction of Tr*mp's border wall, reversed his travel ban targeting largely Muslim countries and embraced progressive policies on the environment and diversity that Tr*mp spent four years blocking. + Biden also reversed several of Tr*mp's attempts to withdraw from international agreements, beginning the process of rejoining the Paris climate accord and halting the United States' departure from the World Health Organization -- where Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government's top infectious disease expert, will lead the US delegation. + His first action was to impose a mask mandate on federal property, a break in approach to dealing with the pandemic from Tr*mp, who repeatedly downplayed the virus. Biden also installed a coronavirus response coordinator to oversee the White House's efforts to distribute vaccines and medical supplies. 

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+ “So if you read my speech … people thought that what I said was totally appropriate,” Tr*mp insisted as he headed to Texas to tour parts of the barrier he ordered constructed on the US-Mexico border as part of his hardline immigration policies. ... + Democrats have directly linked the speech, and previous Tr*mp comments, to the carnage that unfolded when rioters, some carrying Confederate flags, fought with police and looted congressional offices. House Democrats have led demands that Tr*mp be removed or face a historic second impeachment. + A handful of senior Republicans in recent days joined calls for Tr*mp to go. And, crucially, the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, indicated to associates that he believes Tr*mp deserves to be impeached, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, with the Kentucky Republican thinking it will make it easier for the party to purge him, as a liability. + The outlet further reported that the House minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, has toyed variously with asking Tr*mp to resign, supporting impeachment and considering a vote to censure the pres-ident.  And the senior House Republican Liz Cheney said she would vote to impeach Tr*mp.

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+ “I’m proud to announce that tomorrow, 58 days into our administration, we will have met my goal of administering 100 million shots to our fellow Americans,” Biden said.  “That’s weeks ahead of schedule.” + Biden had promised to hit the mark on his 100th day in office, at the end of April, but with about 2.5 million people being vaccinated daily — up from about 900,000 daily doses during the last week of the Tr*mp presidency — he will be able to fulfill that promise 42 days early. + "This is a time for optimism, but it's not a time for relaxation," Biden said. For while millions are being vaccinated every day, herd immunity is still many months away. Meanwhile, new variants of the coronavirus proliferate. Those variants could be helped along as governors lift restrictions across the country. + As he has on previous occasions, Biden held out the hope of a quasi-normal Independence Day, one he said Americans would be able to mark, if all went well in the intervening months, with small backyard barbecues.

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+ Azar's resignation came after U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and several other Tr*mp administration officials resigned after the president was accused of inciting the violence by directing protesters to head to the U.S. Capitol where lawmakers were finalizing Biden's win. The mob descended on the Capitol building Wednesday shortly after proceedings began to count the Electoral College votes and confirm Biden's election. ... + Tr*mp selected Azar, a former pharmaceutical executive, to head the U.S. agency in late 2017, replacing Tr*mp's first HHS chief, Dr. Tom Price. His department is responsible for overseeing the sprawling Medicare and Medicaid programs as well as U.S. public health, medical research and the safety of food and drugs. He's been an integral figure in the administration's Covid-19 response. + Prior to his role, Azar served as the department's general counsel from 2001 to 2005 and deputy secretary from 2005 to 2007. From 2012 to 2017, he was president of Lilly USA, the American arm of drug giant Eli Lilly. + Azar's resignation comes amid a once-in-a-century pandemic. The U.S. currently has more than 23.33 million coronavirus cases and has recorded the most virus deaths by a wide margin, with more than 389,000 confirmed fatalities so far, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

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+ The move will make Moderna’s vaccine the second to reach the American public, after the one by Pfizer and BioNTech, which was authorized just one week ago. +  The F.D.A.’s decision sets the stage for a weekend spectacle of trucks rolling out as expert committees begin a new round of discussions weighing whether the next wave of vaccinations should go to essential workers, or to people 65 and older, and people with conditions that increase their risk of becoming severely ill from Covid-19. +  Jockeying for the next shots in January and February has already begun, even though there is still not enough of the two vaccines for all the health care workers and nursing home staff members and residents given first priority.

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+ (DJT)’s short-lived attempt to blog is over.  + Aide Jason Miller told CNBC that the former president’s page, “From the Desk of Donald J. Tr*mp,” was “just auxiliary to the broader efforts we have and are working on.” + CNBC says Miller provided no further details about the nature of those efforts.  “Hoping to have more information on the broader efforts soon, but I do not have a precise awareness of timing,” he said.  This isn’t difficult to translate. Tr*mp got bored, so he quit. And Miller has no idea what the erstwhile president plans to do next. + As is true of most bloggers, Tr*mp once had grand dreams for his venture. The blog was first supposed to be a new social-media platform, all to satisfy Tr*mp’s itch to post. + Banned from Twitter, his platform of choice, and Facebook, where his fellow boomers go to rot their brains, he was a warrior without a weapon.  But to build a true competitor to his enemies’ websites, Tr*mp would have to spend money and work hard. + It became clear, quickly, that his pet project would not take on Twitter.  Instead, it was something smaller and more pathetic: a blog.  The ex-blog

now redirects to a page urging the noble visitor to sign up for text alerts.  It was interesting to ponder these “EXCLUSIVE updates,” if only for a few cursed moments of my vanishing life. + I thought if I trepanned myself in my living room, which is also my dining room, perhaps I could glimpse the glory that awaited me on the other end of the sign-up form.  I sensed that something unholy had been called forth from the deep. + Perhaps the Tr*mp blog was simply too powerful to live.  It had served its monthlong purpose, which was to generate content for other bloggers. Guilty as charged! (I did sign up for the exclusive updates, by the way. The page took me to a fundraising site, and now Tr*mp has my phone number. Feeling myself descend into hell, I stopped there.) + What will the ex-pres-ident do next, I wonder? I don’t need to drill a hole in my skull to figure this one out. He’ll keep releasing statements about “junky” racehorses and sometimes politics, he’ll go back to having rallies, and I assume he will seethe. Although the blog has gone to join its compatriots in the great internet beyond, this probably won’t be Tr*mp’s last attempt to find a way to post. The man loves posting, and his followers are hungry for content. Posting is a desire for Tr*mp, not a necessity; his blogging effort was pure vanity, a dig at websites that had wronged him. + Tr*mp still has power of a sort: The GOP is still very much his party, and the forces his pres-idency helped unleash are still with us.  The blog was a toy.  He’ll move on to something else soon. -- Sarah Jones.of the Intelligencer.

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+ ... to avoid paying child support, told CNBC.  “It was just auxiliary to the broader efforts we have and are working on.”In response to an email seeking further details, Miller said, “I don’t speak with The Daily Beast anymore.”  Miller declined to elaborate. + Tr*mp launched the poorly performing feature to a collective shrug from the public, racking up a small fraction of the massive engagement he once enjoyed on Twitter and Facebook, both of which have barred him from their platforms for inciting violence and spreading disinformation about the 2020 election. + Tr*mp’s “desk” was a safe space of sorts for him to take potshots at his opponents—and rail against the endless list of wrongs he believes others have perpetrated against him.In a heartwarming post from May 3, the day Tr*mp’s blog launched, he wrote, “So nice to see RINO Mitt Romney booed off the stage at the Utah Republican State Convention. They are among the earliest to have figured this guy out, a stone cold loser!” + Tr*mp also made sure to keep fans who were struggling to put food on the table during the COVID pandemic up-to-date on his personal transport fleet. ...

The missive followed a May 19 plea from Trump to his supporters: “Stick with Kirstie Alley! She is a great actress, loved by so many people, and a true original. (remainder omitted.) + Tr*mp’s lone remaining online soapbox also gave the deposed chief executive plenty of opportunity to remind everyone of the fact that he was the first U.S. president not to peacefully cede power to his replacement. ... + Other times, Tr*mp used his so-called platform to denigrate former staffers who had the nerve to publicly disagree with him.  ...There were half-hearted and barely coherent Mother’s Day wishes (“Happy Mother’s Day to all. It will all come back BIGGER and BETTER and STRONGER than ever before. Do not worry!”); dribs and drabs of horse racing commentary (“So now even our Kentucky Derby winner, Medina Spirit, is a junky. This is emblematic of what is happening to our Country. The whole world is laughing at us as we go to hell on our Borders, our fake Presidential Election, and everywhere else!”); and the old hits (“Now everybody is agreeing that I was right when I very early on called Wuhan as the source of COVID-19, sometimes referred to as the China Virus. To me it was obvious from the beginning but I was badly criticized, as usual. Now they are all saying ‘He was right.’ Thank you!”)  + Tr*mp also picked the scab off old grudges, taking aim at cable news pundits. ... He even made national holidays about himself: “With Memorial Day Weekend coming up, tomorrow people start driving in the biggest automobile days of the year. I’m sorry to say the gasoline prices that you will be confronted with are far higher than they were just a short number of months ago where we had gasoline under $2 a gallon. Remember as you’re watching the meter tick, and your dollars pile up, how great of a job Donald Tr*mp did as Pres-ident. Soon Russia and the Middle East will be making a fortune on oil, and you will be saying how good it was to have me as your President. Wasn’t it great to be energy independent, but we are energy independent no more. Shame, shame, shame. Other than that, have a great Memorial Day Weekend!” + And, as always, believed deeply in polling numbers—but only when they benefited him:  “A new Ipsos/Reuters poll ‘Beliefs Among Republicans’ shows 53% believe Donald Tr*mp is the true President (I always knew America was smart!). 2020 Election was tainted 56%. The Election was stolen (and Rigged!) 61%.” + Tr*mp’s last post from the “desk” focused on one of his most favorite pro-Tr*mp events: the boat parade.“Wow! I hear they have thousands and thousands of boats parading in Jupiter, despite the fact that they tried to cancel us,” he wrote on May 31. “Everyone is having an incredible time. On this day, we especially appreciate everyone who served and fought for our great Country. I love you all!” + But while Tr*mp’s short-lived blog may now be shuttered, his “Save America” online store is still open for business, offering Trump hats, flags, straws, pint glasses, and doormats.

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+ Those figures are up from the 294,928,850 vaccine doses the CDC said had gone into arms by May 30 out of 366,316,945 doses delivered.  The agency said 168,489,729 people had received at least one dose while 135,867,425 people are fully vaccinated as of Tuesday (6-01-2021).  + The CDC tally includes two-dose vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech, as well as Johnson & Johnson's one-shot vaccine as of 6:00 a.m. ET on Tuesday.

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+ While the Biden administration has promised to share up to 80 million COVID-19 vaccines overseas, it still has not detailed where or how it will provide them, as some Latin American countries, desperate for doses, lobby for help. + Blinken arrived in Costa Rica on Tuesday afternoon (6-01-2021), where he will attend a summit of Central American countries, as well as Mexico and the Dominican Republic. ... + Migration will be at the top of Blinken’s agenda as the Biden administration continues to promote good governance and economic growth to counter the historic levels of southern border crossings, but the one thing several of these countries say they need more immediately is vaccines. + So far, the Biden administration has said it will provide 80 million vaccines overseas by the end of this month -- 20 million federally authorized ones and 60 million AstraZeneca doses which are not yet approved for U.S. use. But none of those have been allocated or shipped yet, and the U.S. is being urged to act more quickly to help its Western hemisphere neighbors. 

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+ The heads of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Health Organization and World Trade Organization said Tuesday (6-01-2021) that nations need to act before the virus has a chance to spread throughout unvaccinated countries and evolve into more dangerous new variants. + The group, which published an op-ed in newspapers across the globe this week, said there was a two-track pandemic brewing with richer nations vaccinating large portions of their populations while poorer countries that have received less than 1% of the vaccines administered so far "being left behind." + "Even as some affluent countries are already discussing the rollout of booster shots to their populations, the vast majority of people in developing countries — even front-line health workers — have still not received their first shot," according to the op-ed signed by IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Bank President David Malpass and WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. + "By now it has become abundantly clear there will be no broad-based recovery without an end to the health crisis.  Access to vaccination is key to both," they wrote, noting that $50 billion will generate some $9 trillion in additional global output by 2025 by accelerating an end to the pandemic. + The money would go toward increasing manufacturing capacity, supply and delivery, which would accelerate the equitable distribution of diagnostics, oxygen, treatments, medical supplies and vaccines.

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+ Congressional investigators released emails and documents Friday (4-09-2021) that show Department of Health and Human Services appointees under former President Donald Tr*mp regularly bragged about their efforts to alter staff scientists' reports on the coronavirus. + Officials tried to rewrite the weekly scientific reports so Tr*mp could use the data to support his political positions on wearing masks and reopening the economy, according to the emails released Friday by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus. + "Our investigation has shown that Tr*mp Administration officials engaged in a persistent pattern of political interference in the nation's public health response to the coronavirus pandemic, overruling and bullying scientists and making harmful decisions that allowed the virus to spread more rapidly," said subcommittee Chairman Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C. + Clyburn accused former White House Covid-19 advisor Dr. Scott Atlas of

advocating for "policies that would allow the virus to spread widely among many Americans."Documents obtained by the panel show that Atlas was "aware of, and may have participated in, efforts to attack reports issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in order to justify Pres-ident Tr*mp's push to reopen," Clyburn said. + Atlas and other political appointees within HHS succeeded on several occasions in changing language and influencing the tone of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports, which offer weekly public updates on scientists' findings, the panel found. + MMWRs are data-based scientific studies that aren't usually susceptible to political pressure. + The investigation was first launched after reports surfaced that Tr*mp demanded the right to change the CDC's reports. The emails show Tr*mp administration officials bragging about altering the reports. + "Small victory but a victory nonetheless and yippee!!!" former science advisor Paul Alexander wrote in a Sept. 9 email to let then-HHS public affairs chief Michael Caputo know he was successful in changing the opening line of a CDC report about Covid-19 transmission in school children. + Just two days later, Alexander requested Atlas' help in altering another CDC report on Covid-19 deaths among young people that Alexander said was "timed for the election" in order to keep schools closed.

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