Enlarge / ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – OCTOBER 31: A workers member works at a polling station throughout early voting for the US Presidential election on October 31, 2020 in Arlington, United States. (credit score: Getty | Chen Mengtong)

We’re 10 months into the pandemic and the outlook for the USA is worse than ever. Coronavirus instances are spiking to unseen ranges throughout the nation, with a document of almost over 97,000 instances reported on Friday alone. As hospitals in dozens of states start filling, well being specialists look wearily to the weeks forward. Chilly climate and a sequence of holidays will undoubtedly deliver individuals indoors and collectively, showering gasoline on the present inferno of illness transmission.

But regardless of the grim actuality, President Donald Trump and his administration have spent the final days earlier than the presidential election not addressing the dire disaster however as an alternative downplaying the tragedy and attacking public well being specialists and frontline staff. Trump’s coronavirus advisor, Scott Atlas, even appeared on a Russian propaganda tv present to defend the administration’s response, by which he echoed his earlier false and deceptive claims in regards to the pandemic.

On Friday, Trump himself falsely claimed medical doctors are inflating the variety of coronavirus deaths for cash. In response, the president of the American Medical Affiliation, Susan Bailey, known as Trump’s false assertion “malicious, outrageous, and fully misguided.”