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Biden says he’s ‘bringing back the pros’ for virus briefings
The Associated Press ^ | January 27, 2021 | by Zeke Miller (D-AP)

Posted on 01/27/2021 5:38:17 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

For nearly a year it was the Trump show. Now President Joe Biden is calling up the nation’s top scientists and public health experts to regularly brief the American public about the pandemic that has claimed more than 425,000 U.S. lives.

Beginning Wednesday, administration experts will host briefings three times a week on the state of the outbreak, efforts to control it and the race to deliver vaccines and therapeutics to end it.

Expect a sharp contrast from the last administration’s briefings, when public health officials were repeatedly undermined by a president who shared his unproven ideas without hesitation.

“We’re bringing back the pros to talk about COVID in an unvarnished way,” Biden told reporters Tuesday. “Any questions you have, that’s how we’ll handle them because we’re letting science speak again.”

The new briefings, beginning just a week into Biden’s tenure, are meant as an explicit rejection of his predecessor’s approach to the coronavirus outbreak.

President Donald Trump claimed center stage and muddled the message of the nation’s top public health experts in the critical early days of the virus and eventually largely muzzled them as the pandemic’s mortal toll grew steeper.

The new briefings are part of Biden’s attempt to rebuild public confidence in institutions, particularly the federal government, with a commitment to share the bad news with the good.

“I’ll always level with you about the state of affairs,” he said Tuesday, repeating a central pledge of his inaugural address.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; election2020; virus
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1 posted on 01/27/2021 5:38:17 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“The new briefings, beginning just a week into Biden’s tenure, are meant as an explicit rejection of his predecessor’s approach to the coronavirus outbreak.”

IOW, Biden is choosing his advisors on the basis of whether they agree with Biden or with Trump. How ‘scientific’.


2 posted on 01/27/2021 5:43:53 AM PST by DugwayDuke (Biden - Not My President!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Here you see an underlaying remnant from at least the days of the FDR.

Progressives promoting the literal worship of "experts".

It's the golden ticket to justifying anything to naïve, stupid people.

3 posted on 01/27/2021 5:44:12 AM PST by KC_Lion
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I wanna see the dude with the 5 O’Clock shadow doing the briefings!


4 posted on 01/27/2021 5:44:41 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The “pros”
2 weeks to flatten the curve.
Masks don’t work.
Masks absolutely work but we need to lock down anyway.
2 masks are better than 1.
Science demands that only OUR facts are correct and nobody should contradict us - https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dr-scott-atlas-fires-back-at-birx-over-bizarre-claim-he-gave-trump-parallel-data-streams-on-covid

The “pros”

Spit.


5 posted on 01/27/2021 5:45:29 AM PST by Skywise
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Here is a picture of Biden's pros:


6 posted on 01/27/2021 5:45:30 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dr Fauci a pro?

at what? messing up everything he touches? Fauci is a complete and total MORON who intentionally LIED (and has since admitted that he did) about masks and their effectiveness at the beginning of all this. That LIE has caused untold harm and killed 100’s of thousands.


7 posted on 01/27/2021 5:47:02 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“We’re bringing back the pros ...”

That actually sounds like Biden and not his handlers. If he had only thrown a “man” on there at the end.


8 posted on 01/27/2021 5:48:17 AM PST by cdcdawg (Tailgunner Joe did nothing wrong. Until conservatives accept why he was demonized, we will not win. )
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To: DoodleBob

Oh. That’s good.


9 posted on 01/27/2021 5:48:44 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: DugwayDuke

Biden’s pros:

The WHO and the CCP


10 posted on 01/27/2021 5:49:20 AM PST by Starcitizen (Thank you to the Senate for passing S.386, turning the US into the third-world shithole of India. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That’s fine, I can tune out the “pros” just as well as I did Fauci and Birx and their ever-changing advice and directives.


11 posted on 01/27/2021 5:50:02 AM PST by Cecily
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We were told Fauci and Brix were the Pros and Trump needed to listen to their science. Which he did. Now the are not the Pro’s and we need new Pro’s?

It’s a shell game. This old fool had no plan. It was talk to rile up his base and then drop E/O on his desk from Rice/Harris and the criminal Dems.


12 posted on 01/27/2021 5:50:10 AM PST by sappy (criminaldems)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Does he mean people with common sense or that he’s digging up Mengele right now?

Oh who am I kidding? Common sense left with President Trump.


13 posted on 01/27/2021 5:52:29 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dr. Fraudci’s reported salary was $417,000... he made more than the President. Let that sink in!


14 posted on 01/27/2021 5:55:00 AM PST by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals crazy!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Prostitutes?


15 posted on 01/27/2021 5:56:26 AM PST by MrRelevant
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
... public health officials were repeatedly undermined by a president who shared his unproven ideas without hesitation.

Like Obama and Biden with climate change, systemic racism and that religion of peace thing.

16 posted on 01/27/2021 6:00:53 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: DoodleBob

I would listen to them over Bidet’s “pros”.


17 posted on 01/27/2021 6:01:07 AM PST by stylecouncilor ("When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty." -Thomas Jefferson)
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To: DugwayDuke

And I am sure his son is bring in his ‘pros’ as well.


18 posted on 01/27/2021 6:08:31 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Biden will let them take the flak


19 posted on 01/27/2021 6:14:07 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: missnry

Trump didn’t collect his salary


20 posted on 01/27/2021 6:15:01 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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