A low pandemic number that chills

Normally, it’s the high pandemic numbers that shock. Today we’ll see the one millionth US infection and the 56,000th death. But it’s also a tragically low number that chills this morning. A Washington Post analysis of the last three weeks of Trump’s pandemic briefing comments reveals just 4 minutes of 13 hours spent recognizing and empathizing with those victims. The other 776 minutes were spent bashing reporters and lavishing praise on himself and his administration's pandemic response. Worse, many of those minutes were spent hawking an unproven, potentially deadly drug cure; even bombarding the infected body with sunlight and injecting disinfectants.

A low number that won’t chill? Trump’s sinking re-election poll numbers.