Watch Live: White House Press Briefing 04/21/2020

April 21, 2020 5:30 pm EDT Tiff Feature 2
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It’s time once again for another campaign rally disguised as an official White House press briefing.

It’s highly likely that this presser will not start until 5:30 or even 6 p.m. D.C. time.

Just another day ending in Y.

In today’s campaign rally President Impeached will likely face questions regarding his late Monday night Twitter announced suspension of immigration by executive order.

In regards to legal questions, it’s likely that comments made by Attorney General William Barr to radio host Hugh Hewitt will be mentioned.

According to NPR, Barr called the current stay at home orders “burdens on civil liberties,” and that the idea that you have to stay in your home during a pandemic is like being under house arrest.

Barr went on to say that if lawsuits were brought, the Department of Justice would side against the state.

We’re looking carefully at a number of these rules that are being put into place. And if we think one goes too far, we initially try to jawbone the governors into rolling them back or adjusting them. And if they’re not and people bring lawsuits, we file statement of interest and side with the plaintiffs.

NPR. 04/21/2020

In recent campaign rallies, the Impeached President has shied away from mentioning the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, by name, instead focusing on calling treatments “antivirals,” however based on a new study posted online by researchers in Tuesday’s campaign rally, the Impeached President will likely be asked direct questions about the drugs use by Veterans Health Administration medical centers.

The study evaluated 368 male veterans hospitalized with the coronavirus who either passed away or were discharged by April 11th, were given the malaria drug either alone or with azithromycin as treatments for the virus.

The study results:

A total of 368 patients were evaluated (HC, n=97; HC+AZ, n=113; no HC, n=158). Rates of death in the HC, HC+AZ, and no HC groups were 27.8%, 22.1%, 11.4%, respectively. Rates of ventilation in the HC, HC+AZ, and no HC groups were 13.3%, 6.9%, 14.1%, respectively.

Compared to the no HC group, the risk of death from any cause was higher in the HC group (adjusted hazard ratio, 2.61; 95% CI, 1.10 to 6.17; P=0.03) but not in the HC+AZ group (adjusted hazard ratio, 1.14; 95% CI, 0.56 to 2.32; P=0.72). The risk of ventilation was similar in the HC group (adjusted hazard ratio, 1.43; 95% CI, 0.53 to 3.79; P=0.48) and in the HC+AZ group (adjusted hazard ratio, 0.43; 95% CI, 0.16 to 1.12; P=0.09), compared to the no HC group.

MedRxiv preprint. 04/21/2020

The study concluded that they found no evidence that the use of hydroxychloroquine, “either with or without azithromycin, reduced the risk of mechanical ventilation in patients hospitalized with Covid-19,” and there was, “an association of increased overall mortality was identified in patients treated with hydroxychloroquine alone. These findings highlight the importance of awaiting the results of ongoing prospective, randomized, controlled studies before widespread adoption of these drugs.”

According to Politico the study has been submitted to the New England Journal of Medicine, but has not been reviewed by other scientists.

He will likely be asked about a new funding bill to increase funds for the small business loan program and his tweet calling for bailing out the oil industry.

And of course how his meeting went with Governor Andrew Cuomo.

One last might be asked about, or at least attempted to be asked is the fourth volume of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report that was released to the public on Tuesday.

Needlessly to say as this presser ends we will say “that was worse than yesterday’s,” our daily reminder that there really is no bottom.

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