GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — State Representative Tommy Brann (R-Wyoming) and Dr. Rob Davidson, MD, an emergency physician in west Michigan, today called on the leaders of the Michigan Legislature to pass a bipartisan law to require masks to be worn in indoor places and crowded outdoor areas. Michigan just experienced its worst week of the…
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin physicians today expressed alarm that U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) is promoting unproven, and potentially dangerous, treatments for COVID-19. The physicians signed a letter opposing medically inaccurate misinformation that home remedies can cure COVID-19, which Johnson is spotlighting in a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that…
LANSING, Mich. — Michigan physicians praised Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s new statewide protections against COVID-19 announced today as critical to reduce infections and minimize disease spread at a time when Michigan just suffered its worst week of the pandemic, with 416 deaths from COVID-19 and 44,019 new cases. Whitmer announced new safety measures that include limits…
View the full press call here. PHILADELPHIA, Penn. — Pennsylvania physicians warned that repealing federal healthcare protections endangers people’s safety and lives as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments today in a legal attack to strike down the Affordable Care Act in the middle of a rapidly worsening COVID-19 pandemic. President Trump and 18 Republican…
View video of the press call here. GRAND RAPIDS/TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Michigan physicians and nurses today blasted President Trump for continuing to hold large, in-person campaign rallies in Michigan as COVID-19 cases surge in west and northern Michigan, stretching hospitals thin, while new data links Trump’s rallies to avoidable deaths. More than 35 healthcare…
View video of the press call. PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania physicians criticized President Trump for continuing to hold crowded campaign rallies, including three in the state on Saturday, that increase the risk of COVID-19 spreading into communities that are experiencing more cases of deaths and sickness. Pennsylvania’s public health officials are warning that COVID-19 spread is…
View/Download full video of the press call. MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Wisconsin physicians criticized President Trump for continuing to hold crowded campaign rallies, including one today in Green Bay, that increase the risk of COVID-19 spreading into communities that are experiencing more cases of deaths and sickness. “Physicians across Wisconsin have repeatedly begged President Trump to…
View/download video of the press call. WATERFORD, Mich. — Michigan physicians criticized President Trump for continuing to hold crowded campaign rallies, including one today in Waterford, that increase the risk of COVID-19 spreading into communities that are experiencing more cases of deaths and sickness. Oakland County, where Trump’s rally is scheduled, has the second-highest death…
LANSING, Mich. — The Committee to Protect Medicare today reprimanded Republican House Speaker Lee Chatfield for attending a crowded Trump rally yesterday without wearing a mask even as COVID-19 cases surge across the state of Michigan. Chatfield was photographed standing at the Lansing rally less than 6 feet away from others, who were also maskless. …
View full video of the press call here. FLORIDA – Physicians from Miami, Jacksonville, and Gainesville today held a virtual press call to assign responsibility for the new increase in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations to Governor Ron DeSantis and President Donald Trump. Their call comes as Florida sees what seems to be a second surge…