“A new study by an UCLA economist estimates that 400,000 people in this country died of Covid who could have been saved if Donald Trump and the Republican Party had implemented a more effective health strategy,” says Chris Hayes. https://t.co/SAYgMgEUVy

— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) March 26, 2021

Flu season is coming up! Many people every year, sometimes over 100,000, and despite the Vaccine, die from the Flu. Are we going to close down our Country? No, we have learned to live with it, just like we are learning to live with Covid, in most populations far less lethal!!!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 6, 2020

“People are livid.” https://t.co/sLlZCY1dW1

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) October 5, 2020

Breaking via @jdawsey1 —> Former Pence aide says she will vote for Biden because of Trump’s ‘flat out disregard for human life’ during pandemic https://t.co/5WIm6wLslo

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) September 17, 2020

"People say lives have been lost, but they haven't been lost," says @andersoncooper.

"They are dead. 190,000 Americans are dead and the president lied to us when it really mattered."https://t.co/fTgC9vY8eY pic.twitter.com/RLEGx88MKs

— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) September 10, 2020

Here's what President Trump was saying publicly compared to what he was saying privately as the severity of the coronavirus pandemic became clear this spring. https://t.co/gBvFNSH3yt pic.twitter.com/c5iijYAAvY

— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) September 10, 2020

Reporters: Did the president lie to the American people?

McEnany: ’The president has never lied to the American public on COVID’ pic.twitter.com/oiH8XgLjPR

— NowThis Impact (@nowthisimpact) September 10, 2020

#TrumpKnew pic.twitter.com/rWKzj5Ti1i

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) September 9, 2020

Almost half a million dollars was missing each year in 2016 and 2017.
About $630,000 disappeared in 2018 and 2019.
And $1.447 million was diverted through late August of this year. https://t.co/EzzS9d4O5J

— MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) September 13, 2020

Trump on tape: "I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down." https://t.co/DbEOhmVszA pic.twitter.com/xhq3H1JyCK

— Greg Miller (@gregpmiller) September 9, 2020

Kristen Urquiza, who lost her father to COVID-19: “My dad was a healthy 65-year-old. His only preexisting condition was trusting Donald Trump, and for that, he paid with his life.” https://t.co/NFCK2ZqNNI pic.twitter.com/FVpTzeFcs3

— ABC News (@ABC) August 18, 2020

A New Jersey couple married over 62 years died hours apart from COVID-19, just 2 days after their son also died from the coronavirus. https://t.co/CqSiiC0X3c

— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 16, 2020

Cody Lyster, 21, umpired baseball games and helped coach his little sister Sierra's softball team. https://t.co/b1VBaiYEgA

— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) August 15, 2020

A Florida father and son, both doctors, served on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. They died within 5 weeks of each other from the disease they were treating https://t.co/Dt4IFrAUHk pic.twitter.com/EVRgg4O6ky

— Orlando Sentinel (@orlandosentinel) August 12, 2020

Parents die of COVID-19 15 days apart, leaving two young sons behind @jaketapper reports pic.twitter.com/Rwos6dPibA

— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) July 31, 2020

Couple dies from virus just days before 60th wedding anniversary @jaketapper reports https://t.co/TQDUpAjv7k pic.twitter.com/JrcJaPS2y1

— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) October 23, 2020

"It is what it is" — Trump on the mounting US coronavirus death toll pic.twitter.com/w9vDUvIERF

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 19, 2020

“He slowly drew down the zipper of her body bag partway. He leaned down. He played the son’s video saying a final “I love you.” Then he gently zipped the bag up again and secured it with a rubber band.”https://t.co/lR1BUUdp0G

— Poppy Harlow (@PoppyHarlowCNN) July 16, 2020

29-year-old nurse dies after weeks long battle with coronavirus. @jaketapper reports https://t.co/SONTsRV2Jj pic.twitter.com/3sqE80SctB

— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) July 14, 2020

Some day someone will do a study on how many lives might have been saved if this happened in February or March https://t.co/Y5iL9XFPC6

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 11, 2020

Over nearly two decades, the U.S. government had assembled the know-how to spare this nation the worst effects of the next viral mutation that would, someday, arise. That someday came, and every bit of the planning was for naught, @JamesFallows writes. https://t.co/HjUT5vf9VE

— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) June 29, 2020

Putin paid a bounty to kill American soldiers. @realDonaldTrump knew about it but did nothing. How can Trump lead America when he can't even defend it? pic.twitter.com/oEbnc2cWbT

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) June 28, 2020

With no alternative health care proposal, Trump administration urges Supreme Court to kill Obamacare amid pandemic, recession. @JeffreyToobin @abbydphillip discuss pic.twitter.com/ZR2HRWaCBd

— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) June 26, 2020

.@SenatorCollins on the Trump DOJ's filing in case to dismantle Obamacare:

"The Administration’s decision to submit this new brief is the wrong policy at the worst possible time as our nation is in the midst of a pandemic."

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) June 26, 2020

Coronavirus deaths are way down. Mortality rate is one of the lowest in the World. Our Economy is roaring back and will NOT be shut down. “Embers” or flare ups will be put out, as necessary!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 26, 2020

Our testing is so much bigger and more advanced than any other country (we have done a great job on this!) that it shows more cases. Without testing, or weak testing, we would be showing almost no cases. Testing is a double edged sword – Makes us look bad, but good to have!!!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 15, 2020

This is devastating: "Our analysis shows that with the same actions actually taken by other nations large and small, from East and West, the U.S. could have prevented 70% to 99% of its Covid-19 deaths. This has been a needless tragedy." https://t.co/Xi7JEJ89Ox via @statnews

— David Abel (@davabel) June 20, 2020

‘Slow the testing down please,’ —Pres. Trump said he asked his team to slow down COVID-19 testing to reduce the number of reported cases. A White House official has said that Trump was joking. There have been more than 119,000 COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. as of June 20. pic.twitter.com/6ZsOPYoJa4

— NowThis Impact (@nowthisimpact) June 21, 2020

Bruce Springsteen criticizes Pres. Trump and other political leaders for their handling of the COVID-19 crisis. https://t.co/7Aq5itNWOv pic.twitter.com/ruDDdpZMkV

— ABC News (@ABC) June 18, 2020

The outrage about Charlottesville should not have diminished the outrage over Russiagate. The outrage over Puerto Rico should not have diminished the outrage over Charlottesville.The outrage over the Mueller Report findings should not have diminished the outrage over Puerto Rico.

— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) May 29, 2020

Trump is using the cover of the pandemic to punish the helpless, take revenge on his enemies, reward his supporters, eliminate checks on his authority, and generally implement his monarchical view of presidential power.

In @PostOpinions: https://t.co/juYINLRqIM

— Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@MaxBoot) May 18, 2020

100,000 Americans have died of coronavirus—most of whom could have been saved.

Let's put Trump's chaos into context: pic.twitter.com/PSoB97wI2s

— CAP Action (@CAPAction) May 27, 2020

100,000 dead. But Trump’s public schedule this week contains no special commemoration, no moment of silence, no collective sharing of grief. https://t.co/Rb10rI0IqQ

— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) May 28, 2020

Thank you Cowboys. See you in New Mexico! https://t.co/aCRJeskUA8

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 28, 2020

This is stunning. In New Jersey, 12 percent of nursing home residents died of Covid. https://t.co/93lTvM8NqU

— Ari Schulman (@AriSchulman) June 18, 2020

“Trump has fabricated an espionage claim against both his predecessor and general election opponent. This ‘scandal’ has been a public-private partnership, created with the tools of the federal government as well as Trump’s campaign and conservative media.” https://t.co/UB6r6QEksS

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) May 18, 2020

It took one @PhilipRucker question to expose Trump’s latest "Obamagate" conspiracy theory as complete nonsense https://t.co/uHCgU7RO5A

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 11, 2020

@DanCrenshawTX "Two days later he implemented a restricted travel ban"

That restricted no one and accomplished nothing.https://t.co/hDx8F7s1Wv

A Travel Ban SOLVES NOTHING! TRUMP DID NOT HELP BY DOING THIS! Proof?

— David Limbaugh – DavidInMidTn on Threads (@david4potus2020) April 20, 2020

Literally everything Trump did in February and everything he said about the virus so that you may judge for yourself how robustly he was addressing the growing problem. https://t.co/zGNk4JXOi7

— Philip Bump (@pbump) April 21, 2020

As we're focused on #coronavirus, the #Trump administration is rolling back #environment rules (again) and slashing #immigration. @JohnAvlon on that and how admin cuts have exposed gaping holes in good governance during #CVOID19. "Expertise matters" – and it's been diluted. pic.twitter.com/mHoMeLjYXY

— Michael Holmes (@holmescnn) April 26, 2020

Took @BostonGlobe 20 pages to get all these obits in, +5 from last Sunday. Imagining if this was back when funeral directors called newsrooms to dictate or confirm fax. Busy nights sensed by number of times you transferred call to obit desk. @universalhub @brianstelter @greggvt pic.twitter.com/bTbGLKLNbg

— Rus Lodi (@ruslodi) April 26, 2020

Brought to tears by this story. I’ve been covering the virus since January but I still can’t get over the unique tragedy of this pandemic – the exhaustion and helplessness of doctors, the desperation of families and the extreme loneliness of the patients https://t.co/jV2nyV97Xf

— Amy Qin (@amyyqin) April 26, 2020

On Jan 12, @WHO got the virus genome from China and asked a German team to develop a test. The test was ready Jan 16. On Jan 30, @WHO declared a health emergency. But Trump remained in denial & US bungled its own test. This is Trump’s failure, not WHO’s.https://t.co/1VJddeNC9X

— Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@MaxBoot) May 19, 2020

Peter Navarro: "It crossed me that Disneyland in Shanghai is opening this morning, while my own Disneyland in my own homeland in Orange County, in Anaheim, where Disneyland was born, is still shut because of the Chinese Communist Party. That makes me mad." pic.twitter.com/Z6Onr98wkn

— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) May 11, 2020

Vietnam Memorial in the days of a pandemic.

If trends continue, within about a week, more Americans will have died of the coronavirus than died in the war. That was over about 20 years. This is over about 2 months.

How will this be remembered? pic.twitter.com/GfynLXmEHd

— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) April 25, 2020

🚨62 veterans now dead in Holyoke. 62. In this country, we say we leave no man/woman behind, but what about all these heroes we left behind? It’s a shameful reflection of how unready America is for #COVID19. #WhereIsWilkie? https://t.co/TbGdzAT4lg More: https://t.co/nh8TlE29e8.🚨

— Paul Rieckhoff🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@PaulRieckhoff) April 21, 2020

AP Exclusive: Docs show top WH officials buried CDC report https://t.co/bmTUAXOSKd

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) May 8, 2020

AP Exclusive: The Trump administration shelved documents created by the nation’s top disease investigators meant to give step-by-step advice to local leaders deciding when and how to reopen public places during the still-raging pandemic. https://t.co/dWRN1tcipD

— The Associated Press (@AP) May 7, 2020

The Trump administration will not implement the Centers for Disease Control’s 17-page draft recommendation for reopening America, a senior CDC official confirmed to CNN. @CNNValencia reports.https://t.co/3zELg96PJ4 pic.twitter.com/0J5GzxkGqm

— CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt (@CNNThisMorning) May 7, 2020

Trump: This plague should never have happened. It could’ve been stopped but people chose not to stop it pic.twitter.com/hLUEprSS7z

— Acyn (@Acyn) April 29, 2020

U.S. intelligence agencies issued warnings about the coronavirus in more than a dozen classified briefings prepared for Trump in January and February, months during which he continued to play down the threat, according to current and former U.S. officials. https://t.co/BFglbrjli3

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 27, 2020

This may be my angriest rant ever. And I may be ranting at you.

Lets start here: Meet Lincoln. Right now, he's struggling to breathe in an ICU in Denver -unless he died in the last few hours. His family, the Zimmermans, did everything right. But he still contracted COVID-19…/1 pic.twitter.com/OBZmJYLfUR

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) April 26, 2020

At one of the nation's largest nursing homes, conditions are so dire that many nurses have stopped coming to work. A top medical director hasn't ventured inside in weeks. 70 have died so far. Our story on a facility that was troubled long before the virus https://t.co/fRHNd9TV3f

— Brian M. Rosenthal (@brianmrosenthal) April 20, 2020

Way to go, New York.

Crowds ignore social distancing rules to watch USNS Comfort https://t.co/E8mfZSRXCF pic.twitter.com/yvONdIxH4l

— MJ Lee (@mj_lee) March 30, 2020

Allowed to vote… pic.twitter.com/wR6S7VP4ox

— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) September 2, 2019

“It’s okay to not be okay right now.”

Watch this poignant message from @brianstelter. pic.twitter.com/DUj1SeVtkT

— Reliable Sources (@ReliableSources) April 19, 2020

When the next pandemic occurs (and make no mistake, it will) and the federal government is unable to respond in a coordinated and effective fashion to protect the lives of US citizens and others, this decision by John Bolton and Donald Trump will be why. https://t.co/iMSzopSRaI

— Stephen Schwartz (@AtomicAnalyst) May 10, 2018

Not true, @realDonaldTrump. I wrote to you more than 600 days ago demanding answers after you fired the entire White House pandemic team. https://t.co/ICbHOkyeyY pic.twitter.com/71OF9gKA3N

— Sherrod Brown (@SenSherrodBrown) March 13, 2020

The Declaration of Independence gives us the right to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Included is the right to survive, live freely and care for our families. #OpeningStatement pic.twitter.com/AKimzOCazp

— Jeanine Pirro (@JudgeJeanine) April 19, 2020

In tweets that started minutes after a Fox News report on the protests, Trump's words were a remarkable example of a president helping to stoke an angry fervor that in its anti-government rhetoric was reminiscent of the birth of the Tea Party movement https://t.co/kdIlLtlQS9

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 18, 2020

When @realDonaldTrump speaks about protesters in states saying they are good people who have been treated rough it has a familiar ring to it. That's because it's what he said in the aftermath of Charlottesville. Part of my piece https://t.co/M8Jsob9wjG

— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) April 18, 2020

The list keeps growing: @SteveHiltonx
@IngrahamAngle
@GOP
@FoxNews

Rush Limbaugh

@RepTrey
@LtGovTX
@drdrew
@DrOz
@DrPhil
@marcorubio@ClayTravis @realDonaldTrump

may end up getting ME or YOU killed @TheValuesVoter

Mortality rate now 5.25% pic.twitter.com/pH5SbpS9um

— David Limbaugh – DavidInMidTn on Threads (@david4potus2020) April 18, 2020

New: US intel WAS tracking rise of novel coronavirus as early as November, weeks before that information was included in Trump's daily briefing, CNN has learned.

Follows earlier reporting by ABC News & denial by Pentagon. w/ @MarquardtA & @jimsciutto https://t.co/iCPnxo07hb

— Zachary Cohen (@ZcohenCNN) April 9, 2020

"I take it very seriously that I may be the last face they see or voice they hear," says Chicago anesthesiologist Dr. Cory Deburghgraeve about performing intubations on Covid-19 patients. "I try to take time to show compassion and show we're going to take good care of them." pic.twitter.com/5HVe1KJWBM

— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) April 9, 2020

The Democratic governor of Colorado has been pleading for ventilators for days, but Trump says he's sending them at the request of their Republican senator https://t.co/rKvLGxzpNp

— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) April 8, 2020

Navy says the number of confirmed COVID19 cases on the carrier Theodore Roosevelt is now 550

— Jon Simkins (@jon_simkins) April 11, 2020

Trump reportedly has a “small financial interest” in the drugmaker of an anti-malarial drug that he has been touting as a “game changer” in treating coronavirus https://t.co/RgiTlkNO7Z

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 7, 2020

.@jaketapper directly addresses Pres. Trump: “The American people … need someone to explain what is going to be done to get us out of this. It’s a moment that requires leadership. It requires honest information. It requires empathy and it requires a plan. Do you have one?” pic.twitter.com/9tmWWjE3FH

— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) April 5, 2020

Thread

My friend’s 73 yr old mother went to the ER at Interfaith in Brooklyn at 6pm last night. She’s now been sitting in a chair in the ER for 29 hours waiting for a bed. She has a bad cough, a fever and violent chills. She calls her daughter crying pain and fear. https://t.co/ESk0RBg0Q9

— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) April 6, 2020

"There will be a lot of death, unfortunately," President Trump says during a White House coronavirus task force briefing.https://t.co/sdB4qg4Qe9

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 5, 2020

Thread on what we found: The White House got its first formal notification about coronavirus on Jan 3. Within days, US spy agencies were signaling the seriousness of the threat by including the first of many warnings in the President’s Daily Brief https://t.co/CkZY6LTCME

— Yasmeen Abutaleb (@yabutaleb7) April 4, 2020

“A review of federal purchasing contracts by the AP shows federal agencies largely waited until mid-March to begin placing bulk orders of N95 respirator masks, mechanical ventilators and other equipment needed by front-line health care workers.” https://t.co/BAOlEnkV6W

— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) April 6, 2020

CNN’s @brianstelter pushes back on multiple claims President Trump has made during his coronavirus task force briefings. “This was a 9/11 level failure of the federal government. … It needs to be talked about and covered and scrutinized that way.” pic.twitter.com/VWmAM1X47T

— Reliable Sources (@ReliableSources) April 5, 2020

Remembering a Philly couple married 63 years and a Mississippi pioneer who died of coronavirus @jaketapper reports https://t.co/F18ZUX6lIh pic.twitter.com/Z63bTrDccu

— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) May 28, 2020

Within the extremely sad situation, there have many wonderful stories about the people who've passed away and their lives.

Reading them, you get a sense of how big their lives really were, and how staggering the number of deaths this spring has been.https://t.co/w7S0veb1aa

— Katherine Miller (@katherinemiller) May 13, 2020

Karen Wessel Marcus, 67, practically clapped when she first saw the Orion Nebula. She hiked the Tunisian desert, saw the volcanoes of Iceland, was closer than a sister to my stepmom & was the sweetest to my kids

Coronavirus took her too soon. RIPhttps://t.co/voiw7FPwXK pic.twitter.com/DcRqoPKMJo

— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) May 6, 2020

On today's Daily: He was a pastor. She was a poet. Their marriage was a source of inspiration to friends and colleagues. When she died amid the pandemic he was determined to hold a different kind of funeral to safely honor her life. Listen in: https://t.co/jREtiwNJAm

— Michael Barbaro (@mikiebarb) April 24, 2020

This is so sad https://t.co/OgIIqUSJOA

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 23, 2020

As an immigrant who lived in Queens, this story really hit me.
Such heartbreak.
Nice work @JohnAvlon : https://t.co/Tj6zgVFjid

— Izzy Ortega (@IzzyOrtega) April 21, 2020

15 pages of obituaries in The Boston Globe today. pic.twitter.com/DdcWiy2hvx

— Nancy Palmer (@npalmerrothman) April 19, 2020

Raymond Copeland raised 3 girls as a single father after their mother died. His job with the NYC Department of Sanitation put him on the front lines as an essential employee. He died from complications of Covid-19 at 46. https://t.co/j3mUaUDNtA

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 18, 2020

Two full pages of paid obits in tiny type in The Times today. Many mention Covid. pic.twitter.com/lRnvzQKWgN

— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) April 5, 2020

New Jersey emergency room doctor Frank Gabrin knew he could contract coronavirus when he walked into work to treat patients.

But still he continued, and about a week after contracting the virus Gabrin died in his husband's arms. https://t.co/l4pm4zUPZn

— CNN (@CNN) April 4, 2020

A helluva read from inside a Queens funeral home: “We are no longer embalming remains unless it is required by law. . . . We currently do not have facilities to hold the number of deaths we are experiencing.” via @mccrummenWaPo https://t.co/2PCrXJC5uq

— Greg Jaffe (@GregJaffe) April 5, 2020

With supplies still scarce, physicians are gearing up for a nearly impossible challenge: deciding who gets a life-saving ventilator and who doesn't. CNN's Drew Griffin reports. https://t.co/n2XcRmauoh pic.twitter.com/keoQEbGfVG

— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) April 4, 2020

A frustrating review of DoD's response to COVID-19 overall, but this stood out: they can find $10 billion out of the DoD budget to build the wall, but they can't find funds or requirements to buy ventilators? As nearly 1,000 Americans die in a single day?! https://t.co/5b5XWRt4Gh pic.twitter.com/YgQTuWLZCF

— Abraham M. Denmark (@AbeDenmark) April 3, 2020

ALSO THIS: pic.twitter.com/l4t8yGYZQ0

— Anna Palmer (@apalmerdc) April 3, 2020

A program was designed to spot potential pandemics around the world. The Trump administration ended it https://t.co/2Kvx96dlBR

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) April 2, 2020

NEW: In the middle of a pandemic, this week the Secret Service signed a $45,000 "emergency order" to rent golf carts in Sterling, Va. — home of @realdonaldtrump's Virginia golf club.
In the past, such rentals have preceded presidential golf trips.https://t.co/zFlIsClkDX

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) April 2, 2020

New: We checked in on the Trump Organization’s properties and couldn’t find any sign they were joining the effort to fight the coronavirus, even as the president urges other companies to do so. https://t.co/V78mm69pEi

— ProPublica (@propublica) April 2, 2020

Last summer, the Trump administration let the contract lapse with the firm maintaining the ventilator stockpile. Now, ventilators are reaching states in disrepair. https://t.co/sdogVnif99 @SangerNYT @KannoYoungs @nkulish

— Margot Sanger-Katz (@sangerkatz) April 1, 2020

TRUMP: "Did you know I was number one on Facebook? I just found out I'm number one on Facebook." (Trump has 29 million followers; Obama has 53 million.) pic.twitter.com/CT0uKOpXR8

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 1, 2020

As coronavirus cases continue to skyrocket in the US, equipment remains in shortage and all but 11 states have issued stay-at-home orders for their residents — affecting nearly 90% of the country’s population. @brynnCNN reports.https://t.co/NTymFhbjRk pic.twitter.com/JNgWjCzfNp

— CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt (@CNNThisMorning) April 2, 2020

‘This is not a game’: Cops break up ‘corona party’ of 47 people – including DJ – in man’s apartment https://t.co/A59qSDlsln

— Denise P Rescue Dog Mom 🇺🇦🌊🌊🌊🐝🌻🐝🌻🐝💉💉💉 (@padenpur) April 2, 2020

Proud of our Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Rishi Desai, for his work educating the public and health professionals alike. https://t.co/e25YWhEq3v

— Osmosis from Elsevier (@OsmosisMed) April 2, 2020

More voters say the Trump administration isn’t doing enough to combat the coronavirus outbreak, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. https://t.co/73to5sw56v

— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) April 1, 2020

https://t.co/X2cMkVchx9

— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 1, 2020

The government has yet to curtail exports by US companies, however—roughly 280 million masks in US warehouses were purchased by foreign buyers on Monday alone, per Forbes. FEMA told us it “has not actively encouraged or discouraged U.S. companies from exporting overseas.”

— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) April 1, 2020

“It’s a medical war zone,” says a doctor at Brookdale Hospital.

Here is an inside look at this New York City hospital that has been pushed to the brink amid the coronavirus crisis.https://t.co/U6MoFxGo9n pic.twitter.com/y1all58kBe

— CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt (@CNNThisMorning) March 30, 2020

NYU Langone Health, one of the nation’s top academic medical centers, told emergency-room doctors that they have “sole discretion” to place patients on ventilators and institutional backing to “withhold futile intubations.” https://t.co/nbgM3TYvio

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 31, 2020

For Americans, flu remains a bigger threat than coronavirus – Los Angeles Times https://t.co/Q82TQ9Dn22

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) February 1, 2020

Just left the Administration briefing on Coronavirus. Bottom line: they aren't taking this seriously enough.

Notably, no request for ANY emergency funding, which is a big mistake. Local health systems need supplies, training, screening staff etc. And they need it now.

— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) February 5, 2020

*Back in early February*, Azar asked for $2 billion bulk up the fed’s stockpile of masks etc.

The White House cut request by 75 percent.https://t.co/XZrGmwTIGe pic.twitter.com/Q22PD3oAZT

— Eric Umansky (@ericuman) March 29, 2020

CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus, including the very early closing of our borders to certain areas of the world. It was opposed by the Dems, “too soon”, but turned out to be the correct decision. No matter how well we do, however, the…..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 26, 2020

The U.S. has “contained” the coronavirus, NEC Director Larry Kudlow says. “Pretty close to airtight.” https://t.co/LJKSIghL7q pic.twitter.com/mkRzCrHMM1

— CNBC (@CNBC) February 25, 2020

“It hit like a bomb," said Dougherty County's coroner, of the surge of infections there. "It was like a bomb dropped. Some of them might have went to the funeral. Some may have been family of people at the funeral. Every day after that someone was dying.” https://t.co/gWDSyAMSMj

— Ellen Barry (@EllenBarryNYT) March 31, 2020

Dr. Gupta: 100,000 – 200,000 projected U.S. lives lost because government started late @drsanjaygupta reports https://t.co/NKe46fVVkW pic.twitter.com/Yvt2CUbhqs

— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) March 30, 2020

Mike Pence denied on CNN that Trump minimized the coronavirus crisis early on.

"I don't believe the President has ever belittled the threat of the coronavirus."

Given examples of Trump doing that, Pence said "the President is an optimistic person." pic.twitter.com/OoSBRlvwsZ

— Andy Kaczynski (@KFILE) April 1, 2020

There will be too many cruel and unfair stories like this one. CoVID-19 doesn’t discriminate based on what you do or who you are… in this case… robbing the life of someone who had saved so many… my friend and fellow neurosurgeon, Dr James Goodrich. Please Rest In Peace. pic.twitter.com/zYPv0AsYCK

— Dr. Sanjay Gupta (@drsanjaygupta) March 31, 2020

A second man who attended the recent Winter Party Festival in Miami Beach — an annual fundraising event for the LGBTQ community — has died of COVID-19, festival organizers said.

Ron Rich’s friends have posted heartwarming messages about him on Facebook.https://t.co/GY1PerNYkN

— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) April 1, 2020

The captain of an aircraft carrier deployed to the Pacific Ocean has pleaded with the Pentagon for more help as a coronavirus outbreak aboard his ship continues to spread. “Dozens of sailors have been infected.” https://t.co/kaYyvtwi2c

— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) March 31, 2020

Diamond & Silk are speculating coronavirus deaths are being inflated to make Trump look bad pic.twitter.com/hBnB7422UP

— Jason S. Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) March 30, 2020

Two weeks ago Devin Nunes was urging people to go to bars and restaurants while the CDC was urging people to stay home. He later lied and claimed he told people to get takeout. https://t.co/v7nN6XvEIK

— Andy Kaczynski (@KFILE) March 31, 2020

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Florida has topped 6,700 with 85 deaths.

And an epidemiologist recently cited by the White House advised Florida to shut things down.

But Gov. Ron DeSantis still won't issue a statewide "stay-at-home" order. https://t.co/WfHNXQl4xk

— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) April 1, 2020

"[Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick] might be willing to be collateral damage, but I’m not sure everyone over the age of 70 will be so eager to sacrifice their lives on the altar of the stock market," writes @mattklewis https://t.co/4o3q4yLxje

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 25, 2020

As the coronavirus pandemic unfolds, health care workers are using social media to not only spread awareness but also to share what it’s like to be on the frontlines. @EricaRHill reports.https://t.co/sZHLxOKTp2 pic.twitter.com/j8hHYyUkR4

— CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt (@CNNThisMorning) March 31, 2020

Here's an illustration of when the first cases of #coronavirus were diagnosed in the US.

We went from having the virus being officially diagnosed in one state to being in all 50 states in just 56 days!

January 21st: Washington pic.twitter.com/aJOQSbl19R

— TheValuesVoter (Also on Threads and BlueSky) (@TheValuesVoter) March 22, 2020

CNN's @Acosta reads Trump his previous statements downplaying the coronavirus and asks what he would tell Americans upset over his handling of the crisis.

Trump in return attacks CNN, and says the question is "nasty" and "snarky." pic.twitter.com/xl6u4V3u67

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) March 30, 2020

Pres. Trump denied downplaying the threat posed by COVID-19 in the U.S., calling Jim @Acosta's use of direct quotes 'snarky' pic.twitter.com/7ONoJZ3hrj

— NowThis Impact (@nowthisimpact) March 31, 2020

Must-read @nytimes story on how Trump administration lost a month to prepare for the virus because of lack of testing. Failures of 3 top officials & their agencies: Redfield, Hahn and Azar. US may have world’s worst outbreak, and testing still lags badly. https://t.co/e3CusgrTI4

— Edward Wong (@ewong) March 29, 2020

1/3. Now, as the Angel of Death walks among us let us look back to just 17-days ago in the epically mismanaged handling of closing down of all flights to America from Europe. And then it was announced that Lumpy “misspoke”. Here are airports everywhere. pic.twitter.com/xb4mQn4swK

— Jerry Saltz (@jerrysaltz) April 1, 2020

NEW: POTUS has been reluctant to use the DPA to procure ventilators, tests and PPE, saying it could nationalize businesses. But the administration has used the authority thousands of times previously , including for armor for border agents. https://t.co/KixNm6BwFX w/ @AnaSwanson

— Zolan Kanno-Youngs (@KannoYoungs) March 31, 2020