COVID to Trump: Warp Speed my ass!
Already one freshman Congress member has a vivid memory of her first week in office.
COVID-19.
Trump should be held accountable for her contracting the disease as well as any deaths from COVID resulting from his historic attempt to overthrow the United States of America.
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/2021...spreader-event
Capitol Riot Likely a Superspreader Event
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Jan. 11, 2021 -- The storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Trump on Wednesday was probably a superspreader event that “will have public health consequences,” CDC Director Robert Redfield said in an interview with McClatchy Newspapers.
“I do think you have to anticipate that this is another surge event,” Redfield said on Friday. “You had largely unmasked individuals in a non-distanced fashion, who were all through the Capitol.
“Then these individuals all are going in cars and trains and planes going home all across the country right now. So I do think this is an event that will probably lead to a significant spreading event,” he said. “This is an event that is going to have public health consequences.”
Thousands of protesters, almost none of them wearing masks, gathered outside the Capitol before a large number of them invaded the building. Photos and videos showed them crowded together inside and clashing with police. Members of Congress were sequestered in an undisclosed location, where some of them went maskless.
“If you wanted to organize an event to maximize the spread of COVID it would be difficult to find one better than the one we witnessed,” Jonathan Fielding, a professor at the schools of Public Health and Medicine at UCLA, told the Washington Post.
Contact tracing will be nearly impossible. Protesters came from all over the country and few of them were identified or arrested.
Also, any increase in case numbers caused by the riot would be swallowed up by the already growing number of COVID-19 cases nationwide. On Thursday, the United States topped 4,000 daily new cases for the first time.
“It is a very real possibility that this will lead to a major outbreak but one that we may or may not be able to recognize,” Eric Toner, senior scholar at the John Hopkins Center for Health Security, told the Post. “All the cases to likely derive from this event will likely be lost in the huge number of cases we have in the country right now.”
Rep. Susan Wild (D) PA, expressed concern over fellow lawmakers. She told CBS News that Capitol security officers evacuated her and other members of Congress into a crowded location with 300-400 other people.
“It’s what I would call a COVID superspreader event,” she said. “About half the people in the room are not wearing masks, even though they’ve been offered surgical masks. They’ve refused to wear them.”
“We weren’t even allowed to get together with our families for Thanksgiving and Christmas,” she said, “and now we’re in a room with people who are flaunting the rules.”
Since the Wednesday riot, a freshman congressman says he has the virus. U.S. Rep. Jacob LaTurner (R) KS, who was in the House chamber, said on Twitter that he tested positive late Wednesday and is showing no symptoms.
When you die at the palace, you really die at the palace! Trump Insurrection is likely a Super Spreader Event.
