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| Coronavirus US live: whistleblower to testify on need for measures to prevent 'darkest winter' | Coronavirus US live: whistleblower to testify on need for measures to prevent 'darkest winter' |
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| Top vaccine expert Rick Bright, who says he was fired for resisting Trump over pushing hydroxychloroquine as a ‘cure’, will testify before the House today | Top vaccine expert Rick Bright, who says he was fired for resisting Trump over pushing hydroxychloroquine as a ‘cure’, will testify before the House today |
| Donald Trump continued his off-and-on again criticism of Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during an interview with Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo: | |
| Fauci has been one of the most visible medical officials during the coronavirus pandemic. At times Fauci has undercut Trump on various aspects of how to handle the crisis. Still, at moments he’s won praise from the president and at other times he’s been the target of the president’s ire. After Fauci warned against the country reopening too hastily Trump shot back (according to a transcript of the president’s remarks on Wednesday): | |
| Another 3 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, bringing the total number of unemployed to 36 million people amid the coronavirus pandemic. | |
| The Guardian’s Dominic Rushe and Lauren Aratani have more: | |
| A court resurrected a lawsuit over whether Donald Trump’s hotel only a few blocks from the White House and the Capitol can accept payments from foreign government. | |
| Here’s more from The Washington Post: | |
| Trump lashes out at Rick Bright | Trump lashes out at Rick Bright |
| Before the hearings even started, Donald Trump offered his thoughts on whistleblower Rick Bright on Twitter. | Before the hearings even started, Donald Trump offered his thoughts on whistleblower Rick Bright on Twitter. |
| It’s unclear whether Trump will continue to tweet out about Bright as the hearings commence. The president’s public schedule for the day lists his first public event as departing Washington for Allentown, Pennsylvania at noon. | It’s unclear whether Trump will continue to tweet out about Bright as the hearings commence. The president’s public schedule for the day lists his first public event as departing Washington for Allentown, Pennsylvania at noon. |
| Good morning, US live blog readers, welcome to another day of our up-to-the-minute coverage of news events in American politics and the coronavirus crisis. | Good morning, US live blog readers, welcome to another day of our up-to-the-minute coverage of news events in American politics and the coronavirus crisis. |
| Here are the main developments so far today: | Here are the main developments so far today: |
| Government scientist and now whistleblower Rick Bright will testify before the House energy and commerce committee at 10am ET. The top vaccine expert says he was fired for resisting Donald Trump when the president was pushing hydroxychloroquine as an unproven (and ultimately inferior) treatment for coronavirus. He is expected to warn that without a radically ramped-up national effort to combat Covid-19, America risks “the darkest winter in modern history”. The official title of the hearing is Protecting Scientific Integrity in the Covid-19 Response. | Government scientist and now whistleblower Rick Bright will testify before the House energy and commerce committee at 10am ET. The top vaccine expert says he was fired for resisting Donald Trump when the president was pushing hydroxychloroquine as an unproven (and ultimately inferior) treatment for coronavirus. He is expected to warn that without a radically ramped-up national effort to combat Covid-19, America risks “the darkest winter in modern history”. The official title of the hearing is Protecting Scientific Integrity in the Covid-19 Response. |
| Republican Senator Richard Burr had his phone seized by investigators last night, at his home in Washington, as part of a search warrant in an investigation into whether he used inside information from private briefings on Capitol Hill to dump stocks and make a fortune just before the market plummeted amid the unfolding coronavirus crisis. Burr, of North Carolina, the chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, denied he had kept the public in the dark about the scale of the threat. Burr and his wife sold between around $628,000 and $1.7m in more than 30 separate transactions in late January and mid-February. | Republican Senator Richard Burr had his phone seized by investigators last night, at his home in Washington, as part of a search warrant in an investigation into whether he used inside information from private briefings on Capitol Hill to dump stocks and make a fortune just before the market plummeted amid the unfolding coronavirus crisis. Burr, of North Carolina, the chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, denied he had kept the public in the dark about the scale of the threat. Burr and his wife sold between around $628,000 and $1.7m in more than 30 separate transactions in late January and mid-February. |
| Armed protests are expected this morning in Michigan against stay-at-home orders from governor Gretchen Whitmer. Angry demonstrations in Michigan recently kicked off a flurry of protests in various state capitals, demanding that the US reopen for business immediately – and the Guardian reported on how many protests were coordinated and backed by various wealthy right-wing interests. | Armed protests are expected this morning in Michigan against stay-at-home orders from governor Gretchen Whitmer. Angry demonstrations in Michigan recently kicked off a flurry of protests in various state capitals, demanding that the US reopen for business immediately – and the Guardian reported on how many protests were coordinated and backed by various wealthy right-wing interests. |
| This as the state supreme court in Wisconsin sent shockwaves through the country by striking down that state’s governor’s lockdown order, and businesses immediately began opening. | This as the state supreme court in Wisconsin sent shockwaves through the country by striking down that state’s governor’s lockdown order, and businesses immediately began opening. |