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Trump Assailed Over Tweet About ‘Fake’ COVID Ward In Nevada

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The president retweeted a lie accusing an ICU physician of tweeting a fake photo of beds set up in the parking lot at Renown Health in Reno. The governor of Nevada, the CEO of the hospital and the physician himself immediately clapped back, saying, "It is very real."

The Hill: Nevada Governor: 'Unconscionable' For Trump To Suggest Reno's COVID-19 Surge Unit 'Fake' Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) on Tuesday issued a scathing statement after President Trump suggested in a tweet that a Reno hospital’s overflow coronavirus unit in a parking garage was “fake.” Trump retweeted an account called NetworkinVegas.com, which claimed that the picture of a doctor inside the hospital setup was “fake” because patients were not visible and unused beds were in the background. (Gstalter, 12/1)

Las Vegas Review-Journal: Reno Doctor Refutes Trump Claim That Photo Of COVID Unit Was FakeA Reno critical-care physician on Tuesday refuted President Donald Trump’s claim that a photograph the doctor tweeted and remarks he made about treating dying coronavirus patients were “fake.” “It is not fake. It is very real,” ICU doctor Jacob Keeperman said of the photograph of himself wearing a surgical gown and mask after working his first week in the COVID ICU. The photo showed him standing in a parking garage that Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno converted into a medical unit for COVID-19 patients in mid-November because of rising coronavirus caseloads. (Saunders, 12/1)
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Now I'm sure that Trump has mental problems. His point with this? He insists on continuing to trivialize the pandemic despite its reality.
 
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