He attested that Trump would be the ‘healthiest president ever,’ but was later expelled from the Trump orbit. Dr. Harold N. Bornstein in his office on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in 2016. He inherited Donald Trump as a patient from his father, who whom he shared the practice …
Read More »Trump’s Covid Treatments Were Tested in Cells Derived From Fetal Tissue
When the Trump administration suspended federal funding in 2019 for most new scientific research projects involving fetal tissue derived from abortions, officials argued that whatever the scientific benefits, there was a pressing moral imperative to find alternative research methods. “Promoting the dignity of human life from conception to natural death …
Read More »How Much Would Trump’s Coronavirus Treatment Cost Most Americans?
President Trump’s physician Dr. Sean Conley, with other medical staff members, briefing reporters outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Saturday. While Mr. Trump did not have to worry about the costs of his care, many Americans who have been ill with Covid-19 face large medical bills.Credit…Anna Moneymaker for …
Read More »Instead of Reassurance, Trump’s Doctor Delivers Confusion, Experts Say
BETHESDA, Md. — When Dr. Sean P. Conley confessed that he had misled the public on Saturday about President Trump’s treatment for Covid-19 to reflect the “upbeat attitude” of the White House, he lost credibility with many colleagues in the medical world. “Yesterday’s briefing was a spin doctor, not a …
Read More »Top U.S. Health Officials Tiptoe Around Trump’s Vaccine Timeline
As the nation’s coronavirus death toll neared 200,000, top administration health officials on Sunday delicately sidestepped President Trump’s ambitious declaration last week that a coronavirus vaccine would be available for every American by April. Instead, Adm. Brett P. Giroir, who heads up national testing efforts, and Alex M. Azar II, …
Read More »Covid-19 Live Updates: Health Officials Tiptoe Around Trump’s Vaccine Timeline
Here’s what you need to know: Health officials sidestep questions about Trump’s timeline for ‘enough vaccines for every American by April.’ Representative Jahana Hayes of Connecticut is the latest member of Congress to test positive. Indoor dining in Maryland will rise to 75 percent of capacity Monday. The U.S. military …
Read More »Why You Might Regret Trump’s Payroll Tax Break
Photo by vectorfusionart / Shutterstock.com Payroll taxes might be the last thing you want to think about on Labor Day, but now is the time to understand how the new payroll tax break works. This payroll tax deferral opportunity, recently established by President Donald Trump, is available only from September …
Read More »Coronavirus Live Updates: Trump’s Push to Open Schools Meets a Hardened Opposition
Here’s what you need to know: Distrust of the president hardened the conviction of some educators that teaching in person was unsafe. The number of new state unemployment claims in the U.S. fell below one million last week for the first time in months. New Zealand has a fresh outbreak. …
Read More »How Trump’s Latest Executive Actions Could Affect Your Finances
Nicole Glass Photography / Shutterstock.com Following weeks of impasse in Congress over continuing coronavirus-related financial aid, President Donald Trump took several executive actions on Saturday. The three new executive memoranda and a new executive order issued over the weekend cover a variety of relief measures, including continuing — but reducing …
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