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Trump is trying to explain New York's huge death toll from COVID-19 by claiming they got a late start in their response. But New York has always been -- and remains -- far ahead of what Trump has done. 

This is the first of two posts about misinformation and disinformation using research information about the disease COVID-19 and the underlying virus SARS-CoV-2.

Two weeks ago, Maryland's Governor Larry Hogan asked President Trump to set up a federal COVID testing site to make sure that critical federal workers could ensure they weren't infecting their colleagues. Yesterday, along with issuing a stay-at-home order, Hogan repeated that request.

Kansas Gov Laura Kelly (D) issused a statewide "Stay at Home" order yesterday, and beyond the impact on corralling the COVID-19 epidemic, it also is forcing some in the Kansas GOP to straddle a very nasty fence, like US Representative Roger Marshall.

Tourists, visiting missionaries, grieving friends and relatives of a long-standing community member. These are the ties that link rural communities across the country to a global network of virus. Not only don't their local healthcare facilities have the resources to treat this disease, but residents are more likely to be older, in ill health, and lack health insurance. 

Two foot soldiers offer testimony of the action from the front lines on the war against COVID-19 here in my home state, Michigan.

Right now, Michigan has more positive cases of COVID-19 than all but two states had when Trump approved disaster declarations for those states. But Trump doesn't want to approve one for Michigan because, he says, Governor Whitmer was mean to him.

Not only is Trump's dawdling on funding more ventilators going to lead to unnecessary deaths, but it undermines Trump's efforts to get people back to work.

Let's cut through the bullshit here. If Trump wanted to look like a hero to the American public, he'd listen to virologists, epidemiologists, and public health experts and do what they asked — but no.