{"id":2455368,"date":"2020-03-04T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/white-house-trump-hardly-authorities-on-coronavirus\/"},"modified":"2020-03-05T08:34:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T15:34:38","slug":"white-house-trump-hardly-authorities-on-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/white-house-trump-hardly-authorities-on-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"White House, Trump hardly authorities on coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">President Trump told a rally in South Carolina that the coronavirus was a democratic hoax on Feb. 28. Then he appointed Mike Pence to lead a team to coordinate the U.S. effort in response to the virus. Is Mike Pence a doctor? No! Is he a public health specialist? No!<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Are any of these actions wise? No! Why did Trump not put the surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, in charge?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Trump has demanded that all information regarding coronavirus be channeled through the White House. Is that the best way to get the truth to the American people? No!<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Trump said the U.S. will have a vaccine very, very soon. Doctors have explained publicly a vaccine takes at least 15 months to develop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Do you trust information coming from the White House? Do you think Donald Trump puts your family\u2019s health ahead of his political control and career? I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">We need a national health care system where all people have access to health care, and there is a coordinated response to health emergencies. People\u2019s health, the community\u2019s health, has to be put first, ahead of politics, corporations and ahead of Donald Trump! Imagine that!<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Illene Pevec<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Carbondale<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/white-house-trump-hardly-authorities-on-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump told a rally in South Carolina that the coronavirus was a democratic hoax on Feb. 28. Then he appointed Mike Pence to lead a team to coordinate the U.S. effort in response to the virus. Is Mike Pence a doctor? No! Is he a public health specialist? No! Are any of these actions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2455368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 12:15:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2455368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2455393,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455368\/revisions\/2455393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}