TRUMP'S TEST POSITIVE FOR COVID-19

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34 people connected to White House, more than previously known, infected by coronavirus: Internal FEMA memo

JOSH MARGOLIN and LUCIEN BRUGGEMAN

Good Morning AmericaOctober 7, 2020

 

 

 

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The coronavirus outbreak has infected "34 White House staffers and other contacts" in recent days, according to an internal government memo, an indication that the disease has spread among more people than previously known in the seat of American government.

Dated Wednesday and obtained by ABC News, the memo was distributed among senior leadership at FEMA, a branch of the Department of Homeland Security and the agency responsible for managing the continuing national response to the public health disaster.

MORE: Trump returns to Oval Office despite isolation rules, infection risks

The memo also notes that a senior adviser to the president is among those infected. Hope Hicks and Stephen Miller, both senior aides to the president, have tested positive in recent days.

The new figures underscore both the growing crisis in the White House and the lengths to which government officials have gone to block information about the outbreak's spread. ABC News had previously reported that a total of 24 White House aides and their contacts had contracted the virus. It was not clear in the FEMA memo with the larger number what “other contacts” referred to.

 

PHOTO: President Donald Trump pulls off his protective face mask as he poses atop the Truman Balcony of the White House after returning from being hospitalized at Walter Reed Medical Center for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) treatment, Oct. 5, 2020. (Erin Scott/Reuters)

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When President Donald Trump returned to the White House on Tuesday, he immediately removed his mask before entering the building -- setting off concern that his behavior may put staffers, complex workers and Secret Service agents at risk.

On Tuesday, White House Communications Director Alyssa Farah said the White House was "taking precautions" to stem the spread and that those still working in the West Wing "feel comfortable."

But on Wednesday, images emerged showing several White House aides interacting in close proximity with one another without masks.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/34-people-connected-white-house-235300262.html

 

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Trump's "miracle" COVID-19 treatment was developed using cells derived from an aborted fetus: report

 

 

Roger Sollenberger

Thu, October 8, 2020, 7:17 PM EDT

 

 

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U.S. President Donald Trump leaves the White House for Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on the South Lawn of the White House on October 2, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have both tested positive for coronavirus. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

President Donald Trump has not been shy in his praise for the experimental COVID-19 treatments he received after testing positive last week. In videos posted to Twitter, the president has falsely hailed the therapeutics as "cures" and "miracles coming down from God."

One of the treatments made available to Trump would have been defeated by his own efforts to thwart the scientific research that made it possible: fetal cell tissue from abortions.

According to Trump's personal physician, Dr. Sean Conley, the president received a high-dose infusion of monoclonal antibodies last Friday as part of his treatment for COVID-19 infection. Trump was one of the first 10 patients who received the treatment under "compassionate use" emergency access, Salon earlier reported. Several hours after the injection, the president was flown to Walter Reed Medical Center.

 

The fully-human antibody molecules, made by the pharmaceutical company Regeneron, come from two sources: antibodies identified from humans who have recovered from COVID-19 and the company's "VelocImmune" mice, which have been genetically modified to have a human immune system, according to a statement provided to Salon by the drug manufacturer.

 

The lab tests used to evaluate the effectiveness of the antibodies were derived from what the MIT Technology Review pointed out was a standard cell supply known as HEK 293T. It originated as kidney tissue derived from an abortion in the Netherlands in 1973, the same year Roe v. Wade was decided.

Those cells have since been "immortalized" in labs — they keep dividing endlessly, similar to cancerous growth — and have gone through other genetic changes, according to MIT. Over such a length of time, they can become disassociated from their origin.

"It's how you want to parse it," a Regeneron spokesperson told MIT. "But the 293T cell lines available today are not considered fetal tissue, and we did not otherwise use fetal tissue."

But the line connecting the cell lines remains unbroken. The president undeniably benefited medically from cells originating from aborted fetuses.

Regeneron told MIT that other labs also use 293T cells to make what it describes as "pseudoparticles," or virus-like bodies which have the coronavirus' "spike" protein. Those particles are necessary in order to test how different antibodies work against the virus. Both antibodies in Regeneron's treatment would have gone through those tests, MIT reported.

The Trump administration has restricted medical research using fetal tissue from abortions. In 2019, Trump himself overrode top administration scientists, such as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Alex Azar, and tightened the reins on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fund such research. It was an effort pushed by Vice President Mike Pence in an apparent appeal to religious conservative voters.

"This is a major pro-life victory, and we thank President Trump for taking decisive action," Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, a lobbying group which opposes abortion, said at the time. "It is outrageous and disgusting that we have been complicit, through our taxpayer dollars, in the experimentation using baby body parts."

Sometime that year, the Food and Drug Administration website removed a PDF explaining the genesis and use of HEK 293 fetal cells, according to Salon's search of the Internet Archive.

This August, the Human Fetal Tissue Research Ethics Advisory Board — which the HHS established in February, and comprises a number of anti-abortion appointees — recommended that Azar not fund 13 out of 14 research proposals which incorporated fetal cells.

While those rejections keyed in on blocking access to new abortion tissue — as opposed to research involving common cell lines already in use for many years — some scientists want to study abortion tissue precisely so they can create new cell lines.

Trump's Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is an anti-choice religious conservative, and the court will likely soon see a case on burial requirements for fetal tissue.

 

According to a statement provided by Regeneron to Salon, development and manufacturing of the president's "miracle" antibody cocktail was accomplished in part with federal funds from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), which operates under the HHS and partners with the NIH, whose funding for research has been targeted by Trump and other administration conservatives.

In a video posted Wednesday to social media, Trump said he would make the abortion derived treatment available to COVID-19 patients "for free."

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-miracle-covid-19-treatment-231748871.html

 

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[Markinsa]

If true this is very sad.  If I were President Trump I would be very upset by this.  I'll add this to the list of why I no longer get vaccinated.

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33 minutes ago, Markinsa said:

If true this is very sad.  If I were President Trump I would be very upset by this.  I'll add this to the list of why I no longer get vaccinated.

If true it would be the first time the LAME STREAM MEDIA spoke truth in at least 5 years. 

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I've heard Trump say he loves to kiss beautiful women before somewhere....Hmmm...

 

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So much for the excuse to shut the country down. Get rid of the masks and avoid the diseases associated 

with them.

 

https://m.jpost.com/health-science/coronavirus-patients-can-contract-virus-despite-wearing-face-masks-cdc-645685/amp