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Fri Mar 27, 2020, 09:24 PM Mar 2020

CDC Says Coronavirus Feeds Off Trump's Ego

ATLANTA, GEORGIA — Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control have announced what they think could be a breakthrough in the medical community’s understanding of COVID-19, also known as the novel coronavirus. The CDC said that this new breakthrough still needs to be put through the rigors of double-blind testing and peer review, but that from all the available data, it would appear that scientists may be close to truly understanding a key factor in how the virus sustains itself and spreads.

“We are cautiously pleased to announce that we believe we’ve taken a major step in learning about COVID-19,” CDC’s Dr. Benson Hornaydieux told reporters this morining. “It would appear, at least from what we can tell so far, that the virus feeds on the ego of President Donald Trump. And in fact, it would appear that COVID-19 and the president’s ego have a direct, symbiotic relationship. The more that’s done to protect the president’s ego, the stronger COVID-19 grows.”

Hornaydieux explained that CDC and World Health Organization researchers began to communicate with one another as the virus started to spread in the U.S about whether or not the president’s ego was playing a role, and what exactly that role was. The fact that Trump was warned about the pandemic months before it made its entry into the country but the public was kept in the dark for politically expedient reasons, Hornaydieux said, was their first clue that COVID-19 might like to feed on Trump’s ego.

“The data suggests that every effort undertaken by the Trump administration to shield the president and his ego from criticism helps COVID-19 spread,” Hornaydieux divulged. “More advanced warning, for instance, would have let states order quarantines and shutdowns weeks earlier, which could have rapidly decreased the amount of time the nation was seriously threatened by COVID-19. Choosing to hide the virus, and its potential political price, from the American people, only ensured that doctors and nurses and caretakers would have less time to prepare and respond.”

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