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Rand Paul was confronted by a rowdy group of Black Lives Matter protesters in Washington, DC, early Friday after leaving the White House for the Republican National Convention.

Paul was walking to the Hotel Washington with his wife when a crowd descended upon him while shouting Say Her Name and Breonna Taylor.

The senator from Kentucky where Taylor was fatally shot and killed by police was being escorted by D.C.s Metropolitan Police.

In one of the videos, a protester pushes a Metro DC police officer who trips and brushes into Paul.

The officer briefly stumbles and regains his footing.

A woman can be heard shouting at Paul: Her name is Breonna Taylor!

Just got attacked by an angry mob of over 100, one block away from the White House, Paul said in a tweet.

Thank you to @DCPoliceDept for literally saving our lives from a crazed mob.

The senator and his wife did not appear to be injured.

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Rand Paul assaulted by Black Lives Matter protesters after RNC

As you know by now, Senator Rand Paul and his wife were attacked by a Black Lives Matter moboutside the White House last night after leaving the RNC convention. Paul credits the police for his survival.

"I can't tell you how I'm not sure we would have made it. They were attempting to push the police over to get to me...you've seen the pictures of what they do to you. If the police are not there, if you defund the police, if we become Portland, if America becomes Portland, what's going to happen is people are going to be pummeled and kicked in the head and left senseless on the curb. That would have happened to us I promise you, had we not had the D.C. police to support us...Thank God for the police. Had we not gotten to the police I truly believe that the police saved our lives and we would not be here today or we would be in a hospital today if the police had not been there," Paul told Fox and Friends Friday morning.

But this isn't the first time Paul has experienced violence from the left. It's his third time.

Paul was on the baseball field where Bernie Sanders supporter James Hodgkinson opened fire in an effort to kill as many Republicans as possible. Congressman Steve Scalise nearly died after being shot.

"One of the things that's really fortunate and probably why, everybody probably would have died expect for the fact that the Capitol Hill police were there," Paul said during a June 2017 interview with MSNBC.

Earlier that same year, Paul was violently attacked from behind by a leftist neighbor. Six of his ribs were broken, his lung was punctured and his injuries required surgery.

The man who violently attacked Senator Rand Paul while he was mowing his lawn in Kentucky, leaving him severely injured, has been ordered by a jury to pay $580,000 in damages. Paul filed a lawsuit against Rene Boucher after suffering a number of broken ribs and long term damage to his body in 2017.

"A Kentucky jury on Wednesday awarded $375,000 in punitive damages and $200,000 for pain and suffering, plus $7,834 for medical expenses," the Associated Press reported Wednesday. "Paul said afterward that he hopes the jury's verdict sends a "clear message that violence is not the answer."

Paul's attacker is reportedly a socialist and registered Democrat. His attorney argued the attack came after a dispute "between neighbors."

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky,), questions Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, as he testifies during a U.S. Senate hearing last month.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky,), questions Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, as he testifies during a U.S. Senate hearing last

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky,), questions Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, as he testifies during a U.S. Senate hearing last month.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky,), questions Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, as he testifies during a U.S. Senate hearing last

Opinion: How flattening the curve saves lives

While the recent heated exchange between Sen. Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony Fauci about pandemic response strategies received considerable attention, Ive seen no scrutiny of Pauls false claim that flattening the curve only saves lives if it prevents the health care system from being overwhelmed. This thinking assumes that the area under the curve (i.e., total deaths) will be the same regardless of the measures taken, so long as we dont overburden the medical system. This belief has been stated often this year as if it were a fact, yet its patently false.

The claim rests on the absurd assumption that treatments for patients infected by this novel virus havent improved and will never improve. Expressed another way, Pauls claim about flattening the curve only holds water if health care professionals are no better at treating infected patients today than they were in March.

Of course, months of research and clinical experience have improved our understanding of how to treat patients with COVID-19. For example, research on the use of corticosteroids to treat severe cases of COVID-19 has yielded promising results, including one study that found dexamethasone decreased mortality by approximately one-third among patients who were on ventilators. Additionally, a recent editorial from JAMA encourages placing some patients on ventilators in the prone position, a strategy rarely used at the start of the pandemic.

These advances in medical care mean that people who are infected today are more likely to survive than people who were infected at the beginning of the pandemic, and this trend will likely continue. Consequently, delaying the time at which a person is infected by flattening the curve increases their chances of surviving and having an easier course of illness.

Many critical questions about the virus remain unanswered, such as the optimal dose of dexamethasone for various patient demographics, and these gaps in knowledge further highlight the value of flattening curve. It takes time to research these issues and to discover more effective treatments, and flattening the curve allows these advances to help more people. Perhaps the most obvious example is the development and distribution of an effective vaccine. If an effective vaccine is distributed widely in the coming year, then the number of lives the vaccine saves will be directly related to how aggressively weve flattened the curve.

To be fair, Paul also claimed that public health interventions have no effect on the rate of transmission of the virus and therefore attempts to flatten the curve only cause economic and psychological damage rather than save lives. This claim is in stark opposition to the guidelines of the CDC and WHO and ignores the contradicting results of New Zealands approach. Whats more, while Paul cited the results of Swedens relatively lax approach to support his argument, Fauci noted that the countrys results may argue against his position: Sweden has death and case rates that are several-fold higher than those of other Scandinavian countries that more aggressively tried to curb transmission. While effectively flattening the curve may be more complicated than enforcing public health measures, it doesnt mean that were better off disregarding such measures.

Though there may be compelling reasons to adjust pandemic response strategies, the falsely claiming that flattening the curve doesnt save lives from COVID-19 infection isnt one of them. If anything, promoting this falsehood likely endangers American lives. People need to stop repeating and spreading this lie. Sen. Paul, I hope youre listening.

Rob Palmer is a fourth-year medical student at the Yale School of Medicine and co-president of the schools Preventative Medicine Interest Group.

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Dear Editor:

Given the Trump administration's failure to implement an effective national policy against COVID-19, is its strategy actually to allow this deadly disease to spread, to create herd immunity? Rather than preventing infection and deaths until a vaccine is available?

There's always a "tell." Here, people are thinking they'll gamble with our chips.

The Washington Post reported that in a June 20 email, Dr. Paul Alexander, a Trump appointee to the Department of Health and Human Services, said, "Importantly, having the virus spread among the young and healthy is one of the methods to drive herd immunity."

Sen. Rand Paul's attempt to out-doctor Anthony Fauci in a Sept. 23 Senate hearing included his suggestion that in New York City, "they've developed enough community immunity that they're no longer having the pandemic because they have enough immunity in NYC to actually stop." Fauci refuted Paul's thesis.

HHS Secretary Alex Azar met on Oct. 5 with Trump adviser Scott Atlas and three other proponents of building herd immunity through infection spread, and later tweeted that the meeting provided "strong reinforcement" of the administration's strategy.

Publicly available information shows the costs of a strategy of immunity by infection: 1. The current US COVID-19 infection rate is estimated at a 2% to 3% national average, with some areas as high as 20%. 2. Herd immunity requires an infection rate of 65% to 70%. And 3. Several million Americans would die while we reach that level.

Modern nations, and states like New York, largely beat the virus and reopened their economies with uniform policies aimed at keeping their citizens alive while vaccines are developed. Back in modern times, the world beat smallpox and polio with mitigations and vaccination.

We did not give the administration permission to send us as cannon fodder in a suicide charge at the virus so it could "win" with little effort.

Johannes Sayre

Kingston, N.Y.

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Letter: Herd immunity isn't solution to COVID pandemic - The Daily Freeman

More than 20 people in and around the White House have recently tested positive for the coronavirus including President Donald Trump himself.

The president announced on Friday, October 2, after midnight that he and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, joining several other high-ranking US government officials who have contracted SARS-CoV-2. Trump went to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, on Friday evening to undergo treatment. He was discharged on Monday, October 5.

On Tuesday, Stephen Miller, a top Trump adviser, reportedly tested positive for the coronavirus. His case was just the latest revealed among top White House officials. Press secretary Kayleigh McEnany tested positive on Monday for the coronavirus; four of her aides reportedly also have tested positive. McEnany like others in the White House cluster failed to immediately quarantine after Trumps diagnosis, and she appeared in front of reporters without a mask in the following days.

McEnany and other Republican officials attended a White House event on September 26 honoring the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. GOP Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Thom Tillis of North Carolina announced after Trumps diagnosis that they had tested positive; both were at the event, which took place indoors and outdoors. Several other people, including former senior White House counselor Kellyanne Conway and Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien, also tested positive after attending the event.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, another attendee, announced that he tested positive and checked into a hospital.

Barrett, for her part, was diagnosed with Covid-19 over the summer but has recovered. It is unknown whether she now carries immunity.

But its not just the one event. On Saturday, October 3, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) announced he had tested positive. Johnson was not at the Barrett event, but he did attend a lunch with other Republican senators last week.

Beyond the relatively well-known senators, members of the press, and White House officials who have tested positive, less well-known government staff members and security officers have been infected with the coronavirus in recent days. A number of such cases have been confirmed, including McEnanys deputies, Trump aide Nicholas Luna, and military officials assigned to the White House. Vice Commandant Charles Ray of the Coast Guard tested positive on Monday, and other military leaders entered quarantine.

The White House, in other words, is now a Covid-19 hot spot. And the administration appears to be doing little to trace the outbreak, creating concern that the White House will become a source of community spread. At least one likely secondary infection has been reported: New York Times journalist Michael Shear, who traveled with the president the evening after the Barrett event and tested positive shortly after, said his wife tested positive following his diagnosis.

While its not clear how the president was exposed, Trump was in regular contact last week with senior counselor Hope Hicks, whose positive coronavirus test was revealed on Thursday, October 1. Hicks had traveled with Trump multiple times last week, including to the September 29 presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio.

Over the summer, Republican Sens. Rand Paul and Bill Cassidy were diagnosed with Covid-19 but have successfully recovered. The virus has also infected at least 14 House members nine Republicans and five Democrats since March. But this is the first time the virus, which has killed more than 210,000 Americans, has spread in such a concentrated manner among White House officials, staffers, and members of the press corps.

As of Tuesday, Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen have both tested negative, as have Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his wife Jill. Some other Trump administration officials, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, tested negative as well.

Trump and his staff have been traveling to campaign events for several weeks. Just in the past week, the president has held rallies in Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota, in addition to the September 29 debate in Ohio. Eleven people tested positive for the coronavirus in cases traced to pre-debate planning and set-up, according to the Cleveland mayors office.

One way to mitigate the White House outbreak would be to undergo a major contact tracing operation, though the Trump administration has made few efforts on that front so far. As Voxs Dylan Scott explained, the only way to figure out the full extent of the outbreak is contact tracing: identifying who has been in close contact with the president since he became contagious, and asking them to quarantine to prevent Covid-19 from spreading to others, and to get tested themselves.

The Trump campaign announced in a statement Friday that he and his family are suspending in-person events. Pences campaign travel will continue, and he plans to participate in the vice presidential debate against Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris on Wednesday.

Heres what we know about who has tested positive and negative for SARS-CoV-2 so far.

This list includes people who attended the September 26 Barrett event and/or have had close recent contact with the White House.

Crede Bailey, the head of the White House security office, has been hospitalized with Covid-19 since September, according to Bloomberg. He reportedly became sick before the Amy Coney Barrett event.

Two housekeeping staff members at the White House tested positive roughly three weeks ago, according to the New York Times.

Vice Commandant Ray, Sen. Johnson, and Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel have also recently tested positive. Johnson and McDaniel were not at the Barrett event, but McDaniel had contact with Trump in the days before it.

Given the level of uncertainty created by this news, Vox has compiled a list of key administration figures who help run the country, key lawmakers who have been in contact with the president, and key Democrats in the 2020 election cycle who have recently gotten negative test results for the virus.

While it could take several days for an individual who has contracted the virus to test positive, these are the initial negative tests. Heres a partial list so far:

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