A Texas nurse said she saw first-hard the damage that President Donald Trump and his political allies did by falsely claiming the false claiming that Covid-19 no more dangerous than the flu.
Ashley Bartholomew, who worked in hard-hit El Paso, described to MSNBC’s Craig Melvin what happened when she encountered a patient in the intensive care unit who was infected with the coronavirus but was still insisting that the pandemic was fake news.
“I was so shocked in the moment when he was saying this to me,” she said. “He's in a Covid ICU, and he's still kind of denying the severity of the situation.”
Bartholomew says this moment “showed me the power of denial and how misinformation and disinformation is killing us.”
“And it made me, you know, nervous for not only this one patient,” she said. “If he's thinking like this, there's potentially thousands or millions more and we're in trouble if that's the case.”
Bartholomew said she didn’t blame the patient. “It's hard though, when we have these mixed messages from a national level, down to a state level, and then even here in El Paso, at the local level,” she said.
Trump last month was branded the world’s biggest spreader of coronavirus misinformation by Cornell University researchers after they compiled a lengthy list of false claims the president made about Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic.
Video recreates dying patient's view as ICU doctor urges people to take Covid seriously
A St. Louis ICU doctor shared a video showing what Covid-19 patients see as they are being intubated in an attempt to urge people to take the virus seriously.
In the video, Kenneth Remy, a critical care physician at Washington University Medical Center, stares down at a camera as he holds a laryngoscope and an endotracheal tube — tools used in the intubation process.
"I hope the last moments of your life don't look like this because this is what you'll see at the end of your life if we don't start wearing masks when we're out in public. When we don't practice social distancing. When we don't wash our hands frequently," he says.
"Because I promise you, this will be what you see. I promise you this is what your mother or your father or your children when they get Covid disease will see at the end of their life. This is serious."
NFL Thanksgiving game between Steelers and Ravens postponed after Baltimore outbreak
A marquee Thanksgiving Day game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens has been pulled off the schedule with hopes it can be played on Sunday.
The undefeated Steelers and visiting 6-4 Ravens had been set to kick off at 8:20 p.m. ET on NBC, in the nightcap of three NFL games on Thursday. It's now hoped to be played on Sunday afternoon.
The Ravens have been hit this week with several positive Covid-19 tests.
Mink farm in Poland detects Covid cases among the herd
Covid-19 has been detected on a mink farm in northern Poland, the latest European country to report the virus in the animals prized for their fur, Forbes reported.
Now Poland, a major producer of mink fur, faces the prospect of having to do what breeders in Denmark, the Netherlands, France and Ireland did and cull the herds to prevent the virus from spreading to humans.
Covid-19 has also decimated the mink herds on farms in Wisconsin and Utah as well.
Minks have been found to be especially susceptible to catching the virus.
Alabama coach Nick Saban tests positive for Covid-19, feeling very 'mild symptoms'
Alabama coach Nick Saban has tested positive for Covid-19, school officials said Wednesday, just days before his team's annual grudge match against Auburn.
“He has very mild symptoms, so this test will not be categorized as a potential false positive,” according to a joint statement from team physician Dr. Jimmy Robinson and head trainer Jeff Allen. “He will follow all appropriate guidelines and isolate at home.”
His Crimson Tide, ranked No. 1 in the College Football Playoff rankings, is set to play Auburn on Saturday.
Saban, 69 previously tested positive ahead of the Oct. 17 Georgia game, but didn’t have any symptoms. He was cleared to coach after subsequent tests came back negative.
California church petitions Supreme Court over governor's restrictions
A Los Angeles-area church has asked the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency injunction that would block California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s order restricting the number of people who can gather in a house of worship during the pandemic.
The Harvest Rock Church, which is based in Pasadena and has campuses in other Southern California communities, contends that Newsom’s “tyrannical” order is unconstitutional, the City News Service reported.
There was no immediate response from Newsom, but the church has repeatedly challenged the state’s pandemic restriction orders in court. Last month a local federal appeals court denied the church’s bid to overturn Newsom’s ban on indoor singing and chanting in a place of worship.
Studies have shown that singing indoors poses a high risk of spreading Covid-19.
U.S. sees 15 days of record Covid hospitalizations
More than 88,000 people were hospitalized in the U.S. on Tuesday, shattering all previous highs and marking the fifteenth consecutive day of record-breaking Covid-19 hospitalizations, according to the Covid Tracking Project.
The news comes as hospitals around the country report being overwhelmed with cases, and the country braces for a possible post-Thanksgiving surge.
In Oklahoma, the department of health said more than 1,550 people were hospitalized with Covid-19 in the state on Tuesday, the highest since the start of the pandemic.
In Ohio, where hospitalizations are surging, officials say the health care system is at a breaking point.
“At the Cleveland Clinic, we have 970 caregivers out because they are either in quarantine or they have active Covid infections,” Dr. Robert Wyllie said Monday.
Hospitalization hit a record high in Oregon, too, where more than 450 people are hospitalized with the virus. ICU beds in the state are at 82% capacity, and 90% in metro areas, according to The Oregonian.
Rishi Sunak, U.K. finance minister, wins praise for staying calm during pandemic
LONDON — It's been a tough year for front-line politicians in Britain. Few have impressed as the country battles a rampant coronavirus outbreak and continues its never-ending Brexit saga.
Except, that is, for Rishi Sunak.
The young, well-dressed finance minister was little known until recently, and only entered Parliament in 2015. On Wednesday, he again made headlines outlining his updated economic forecast for the coronavirus-battered country.
But the relatively inexperienced former banker, who has Indian roots, has been thrust into the spotlight as one of the country's most powerful politicians.
Trump adviser Epshteyn tests positive for Covid-19
Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn tested positive for Covid-19, he said in a statement on Wednesday.
Epshteyn was at a crowded press conference at the Republican National Committee with Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani on Nov. 19. He was also with Giuliani earlier this week at a radio interview taping.
He said in his statement that he is quarantining and complying with contract tracing.
Curfew starts tonight in El Paso, as Covid deaths continue to spike
Another 28 El Paso residents have died from Covid-19, authorities said Wednesday, as the west Texas community prepares to enforce a curfew aimed at slowing the deadly scourge.
El Paso County's Covid-19 death toll reached 905 on Wednesday morning, up 28 from Tuesday and marking the fifth day this month that the total has spiked by at least 22.
The county, with clearance from Gov. Gregg Abbott, will begin a 10 p.m.-to-5 a.m. curfew on Wednesday against any social or recreational activity, El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego said.
Late last month, Samaniego ordered the shutdown of all non-essential businesses. But an appeals court ruled that El Paso's decree overstepped state guidelines, even as the county had to import 14 mobile morgues to store and transport the overload of bodies.
Samaniego on Tuesday begged constituents to avoid big dinners Thursday and in-store Black Friday sales: "All of this will give us so many more people that might die if we avoid this. Those individuals will have many, many more Thanksgivings, many, many more Black Fridays, many more opportunities to be with their family."
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