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Coronavirus task force to be wound down around Memorial Day
CNN ^ | May 5, 2020 | Jake Tapper, Kristen Holmes, Jeremy Diamond, Caroline Kelly and Dana Bash

Posted on 05/05/2020 3:41:07 PM PDT by upchuck

The White House coronavirus task force will start to wind down later this month, a senior White House official told CNN on Tuesday.

The official said the task force "will be phased down around Memorial Day. We will continue to have key medical experts advising (President Donald Trump) daily and accessible to press throughout the coming months ahead."

The New York Times first reported the White House's plan to wind down the task force.

The move would quash the most visible nerve center for the federal government's response to the virus. But a senior administration official told CNN to expect members of the task force to still be involved in conversations with governors and industry leaders because the White House is aware that leaders still want to hear from doctors as they reopen their states and businesses.

News of the plan to phase out the task force comes as the rate of the country's daily new Covid-19 cases and reported deaths plateau, according to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Research Center. However, the influential model created by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington projected a doubling of US deaths -- to 134,000 by August 4 -- and an increased daily death toll as governors, urged on by Trump, relax social distancing measures.

The news comes a little more than a week after CNN reported that the task force might soon begin slowly scaling back its number of meetings altogether, according to a source, as Trump and Vice President Mike Pence schedule other events.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: carolinekelly; clintonnonnews; cnn; danabash; jaketapper; jeremydiamond; kristenholmes; taskforce
I know, it's CNN.
1 posted on 05/05/2020 3:41:07 PM PDT by upchuck
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To: upchuck

5 friggin writers?

LOL

Losers...


2 posted on 05/05/2020 3:44:47 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: upchuck

Sounds good.
The task force has organized the agencies’ response- it’s top job (and sorely needed!)
Memorial Day allows for any weirdness/spikes from early re-openings. Allows a month of evidence before Fourth of July.


3 posted on 05/05/2020 3:56:45 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts (M / F) : Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: upchuck

If Biden climbs out of his basement and sees his shadow, it is officially over.


4 posted on 05/05/2020 4:03:35 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Follow your Inner Trump)
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To: Vendome

The late Harlan Ellison (Star Trek,etc.) said any time you see the credits show several writers it is a sign the first one was totally incompetent and they tried one or two more, and finally had a staff try to mend the falling apart junk script they had to work with. CNN in a nutshell. (Tapper: Hey, who you callin’ nuts?)


5 posted on 05/05/2020 4:05:12 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: upchuck

That’s good because that’s when Fauci’s lecture and book tour begins.


6 posted on 05/05/2020 4:36:57 PM PDT by shalom aleichem (Durham and Barr! *hit or get off the pot!)
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To: frank ballenger

I wrote for newspapers for 25 years, and I can only think of a couple times I shared a byline with another reporter.

And I should note that the rare occurrences were feature stories, not breaking news.

I never made it to a major metro daily. I had to work for my living instead.


7 posted on 05/05/2020 5:21:06 PM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: upchuck

Need to shut it down today! We are done with it’s doom and gloom.


8 posted on 05/05/2020 7:38:49 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration
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