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The chief medical correspondent for CNN, who questioned the value of wearing masks in March, is being blasted for claiming that a "source" told him Donald Trump could have "saved 80 to 90 percent" of Covid-19 victims in the US.
Discussing a recent report that a plan for the US Postal Service to send five masks to every American earlier in the year was scrapped, Sanjay Gupta threw out comments on CNN on Friday blasting the White House's coronavirus response,
crediting them all to a mysterious "source."Gupta, a neurosurgeon, claims his source told him that the White House knew Covid-19 could be spread "asymptomatically," but chose not to promote this information and continues to "ignore basic health measures."
"This is what my source said: Every step along the way, this guidance that could have saved, you know, 80-90 percent of the people who have died could have been saved if this guidance had been abided by. Every step of the way, that guidance has been buried, and then minimized, then ignored, and now ridiculed," Gupta said.
Considering there is no way to mathematically quantify how many lives would have been saved or lost based on going back in time and putting into place the various policies Gupta is talking about, his "80 to 90 percent" comment is getting plenty of pushback - with some critics even bringing up Gupta's own controversial past regarding Covid-19 information.
Comment: Tikhanovskaya is drawing from the same playbook as failed coup figurehead Juan Guaido, without having the full-throated support he enjoyed from the West. At least she actually participated in the election, though with a seemingly dismal showing. Her moves after her election loss are suspicious