2020年2月27日 星期四

Stocks Plunge in Worst Loss Since 2011 Over Coronavirus Fears. U.S. Health Workers Lacked Training and Gear, Whistle-Blower Says

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Stocks Plunge in Worst Loss Since 2011 Over Coronavirus Fears
The global stock market slid for the sixth straight day, and investors worldwide grew increasingly fearful that the outbreak could cause a recession.
The S&P 500 was down 4.4 percent, its steepest one-day drop in almost nine years, as the crisis threatens global supply chains, especially in China.
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U.S. Health Workers Lacked Training and Gear, Whistle-Blower Says

The federal employees moved freely on and off military bases where Americans were quarantined for possible coronavirus exposure, the complaint said.
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Forty-eight countries have now reported infections. Here’s the latest on the outbreak.
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Is the U.S. Ready? Testing Delay in California Case Raises Concerns





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Nominating Bernie Sanders would present America with a terrible choice—and widen the country’s divisions.



Nominating Bernie Sanders would present America with a terrible choice—and widen the country’s divisions. Our cover in North America this week https://econ.st/2VntgoO
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2020年2月26日 星期三

The U.S. coronavirus response 美國國會議員目前對疫情的擔憂加劇，全美各地城市都在做新的準備。 a News Conference at the White House. Trump Plays Down Threat to U.S.



BREAKING: The U.S. identifies the first coronavirus case without ties to a known outbreak, a worrying sign that the illness is already circulating in the country.


美國總統川普表示，美國人感染新型冠狀病毒的風險仍然非常小，他任命副總統潘斯負責聯邦政府的疫情應對工作。美國國會議員目前對疫情的擔憂加劇，全美各地城市都在做新的準備。在國會山，兩黨領袖都表示，將在川普提出的25億美元計劃之外再尋求數十億美元的緊急支出。

Trump Names Pence to Lead Coronavirus Effort, but Plays Down Threat to U.S.
Several top health experts echoed President Trump’s optimism but also offered a more sober assessment of the risks to Americans.
He named Vice President Mike Pence to oversee efforts to prevent a widespread domestic outbreak and left the door open to travel restrictions beyond China.

Donald J. Trump
Low Ratings Fake News MSDNC (Comcast) & CNN are doing everything possible to make the Coronavirus look as bad as possible, including panicking markets, if possible. Likewise their incompetent Do Nothing Democrat comrades are all talk, no action. USA in great shape! I will be having a News Conference at the White House, on this subject, today at 6:00 P.M. CDC representatives, and others, will be there. Thank you!
聽記者會後半，包括問答......

"At a time like this, it would be a lot more reassuring to think that there were actual, you know, experts in charge of the government rather than ignorant ideologues chosen for their dedication to a supreme leader unconstrained by fact, logic or morality. Where’s the “deep state” when you need it most?" Max Boot writes in Opinions.




The Wuhan coronavirus lays bare all of Trump's pathologies.

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Opinion | The U.S. coronavirus response shows the costs of having a ‘chaos president’

In a rambling press conference that displayed his utter lack of knowledge about public health, Trump announced that he has appointed Mike Pence to lead the administration’s task force for responding to the coronavirus outbreak. He praised Mike Pence’s previous experience handling public health issues, saying “he has a certain talent for this”.
As governor of Indiana, Mike Pence enabled the worst HIV outbreak in his state’s history and actively blocked a policy that would have contained the crisis. He slashed public health funding, which forced HIV testing centers to close, and then took nearly three months to allow a temporary needle exchange to stem the crisis. And now this man is in charge of handling an outbreak of global proportions.
Meanwhile, Trump continues to downplay the scale of the outbreak in direct contradiction to experts’ warnings, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar has refused to say that an eventual vaccine will be affordable to everyone. The sheer incompetence of this administration continues to shake me to my core.

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特朗普團隊以誹謗罪起訴紐約時報 索賠百萬美元

索賠百萬美元特朗普團隊以誹謗罪起訴紐約時報

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雖說特朗普批評紐約時報已經成為慣常，但這是他的競選團隊第一次正式以誹謗罪起訴這家媒體。
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法新社紐約2月26日消息，名為“Donald J. Trump For President”的組織在當天向紐約州最高法院遞交了正式文書，要求紐約時報因一篇2019年3月27日發布的文章而繳納“以百萬美元計”的損失費。

在受到起訴相關文章當中，紐約時報提到了特朗普和俄羅斯總統普京在美國2016年總統選舉備戰期間的一份協議。這篇文章出自紐約時報1986-1994年之間的執行主任馬克思-弗朗科爾之筆，具體內容包括“特朗普競選團隊與弗拉基米爾-普京之間無需合計具體的選舉共識與謀劃，因為他們有一項全面協議，那就是擊敗希拉里-克林頓，以換取新的親俄政策”。

雖然這篇文章被刊登在報紙的“觀點”一欄，但特朗普競選團隊還是通過律師查爾斯-哈爾德譴責稱，“當紐約時報發布這篇文章的時候，十分清楚這都不是真的”...“明知這不是真的，且誤導讀者，但時報還是選擇將這篇文章刊發”。哈爾德簽名的這份控訴書還指出，“時報有著極端的導向，對（特朗普的）競選團隊抱有敵意，不僅如此，還以有失偏頗的方式影響著2020年美國總統選舉” 。

作為回應，紐約時報一位發言人表示，“特朗普的競選團隊選擇尋求司法幫助，希望懲罰他們接受不了的觀點的作者”，“但所幸法律保護美國公民判斷和做出結論的權利，尤其是保護他們在對輿論至關重要的事件上做出結論和判斷的權利”。
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2020年2月25日 星期二

Experts fear the small number of U.S. covid-19 cases reflects limited testing rather than a lack of infections.

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Experts fear the small number of U.S. covid-19 cases reflects limited testing rather than a lack of infections.
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