Senator Rand paul
Randal (Rand) Howard PaulCoronavirus speaks fracture GOP Unit Night Defense: House of Representatives passes defense bill Trump threatened to veto | Esper expresses concern about officers wearing military clothing. The Senate rejects the general restrictions on transfers of military-grade equipment to the police. PLUS (R-Ky.) He called for the impeachment of the New York governor on Wednesday. Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo Visitors from 31 states must now quarantine when they visit New York, New Jersey, Connecticut Watch Live: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo holds a press conference The manager of the ice cream shop in New York says it was fired for failing to attend customers’ coughs without a mask MORE (D) on his handling of the state coronavirus outbreak, saying: “The people we are praising are making catastrophic decisions.”
“I think Governor Cuomo should be charged … for the disastrous decision he made to send coronavirus patients back to nursing homes … Almost half of the people who died were in nursing homes,” he said. Paul on Fox News “Rundown”. morning podcast.
Earlier on the show, Paul called to question the closure of the pandemic imposed in New York in March, referring to the increase in cases across the state despite refuge orders in place.
“New York had a running of the bulls and 30,000 people died. New York had the worst death rate of any place in the world in the middle of a running of the bulls. So maybe a running of the bulls did no good, and maybe a running of the bulls killed our economy but it did not”. do nothing to stop the tide of a virus. “
The Hill contacted Cuomo’s office for comment.
Paul, a doctor, said he believes pandemic blockages “killed the economy but were of no use in trying to contain the virus.”
Commenting on the recently re-imposed restrictions in states that are seeing new spikes in COVID-19, Paul said that people “need to assess their own risks with respect to the virus,” and said that for “those under 18, the risk mortality is approximately one in a million or slightly less.For ages 18 to 45, it is approximately 10 out of 100,000 for mortality.
“Less than 45 years old, this disease we are seeing is less dangerous than seasonal flu. Above 45 years, it is more dangerous than seasonal flu,” he said.
Paul, who became the first senator to contract the new coronavirus in March, has openly voiced the country’s pandemic response, and has repeatedly said that a small subset of health experts shouldn’t be making the rules for himself.
Republican senator publicly questioned leading infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci
Anthony FauciPelosi calls the coronavirus the “Trump virus” Bolton defends Cheney amid a clash with conservatives in the House of Representatives Trump says the coronavirus “will get worse before it gets better” MORE, saying in June that the epidemiologist advising the nation’s response to COVID-19 should provide “more optimism” about the United States’ approach.
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