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The US has suffered its worst week for new infections of the entire Covid-19 pandemic just days ahead of the election.
Scientists have sounded alarms about unabated Covid-19 spread across the midwest, a spread that has the potential to create even more devastation this winter if nothing is done to control the virus. And political divisions are fueling the surge.
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One of the medical professionals to respond was Dr. Ashish Jha, who was asked about Trump’s comments on MSNBC. After being played the clip of what the president had said, Dr. Jha replied.
I don’t know where to begin. First of all it’s offensive. Second, attacking frontline health workers who have been saving American lives, despite this botched public health response, is doubly offensive. And then it’s just wrong. Right, doctors don’t get a single extra cent.
Now, hospitals do get reimbursed a little bit more if it’s a Covid pneumonia versus a non-Covid pneumonia, but they don’t go around committing large scale fraud. You have to test people, you have to show it.
