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In a marathon coronavirus press conference on Tuesday, one estimate rang through the misinformation: The White House projects that between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans could die from COVID-19. Though White House Coronavirus Task Force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx hedged the assessment, saying “We really believe we can do a lot better than that,” President Trump offered a more solemn prediction: “This could be hell of a bad two weeks.
The projection is consistent with one provided on Sunday by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Director Anthony Fauci, who estimated that up to 200,000 Americans could die from the pandemic. Fauci, too, was eager to emphasize that extended social distancing measures could help bring that number down. “We are continuing to see things go up,” Fauci said of the “sobering” estimate on Tuesday.
According to a report from the Washington Post, the deadly estimates — together with an understanding that mass casualties would be bad for his reelection prospects — helped convince the president over the weekend not to reopen the economy by Easter. But in Tuesday’s press conference, Trump portrayed himself as a clear backer for extended social distancing, not the loudest voice for bringing American life back to normal in early April. He said “a lot of people” told him to “ride it out.
While Trump appears to be over his phase of belittling the crisis, his new argument posits that 100,000 deaths — almost as many that the country suffered in World War I — would be a tremendous victory, without mentioning that the loss of life was in part multiplied by his own failure to act early on in the crisis. By Tuesday morning, more Americans had died from the coronavirus than battlefield deaths in Afghanistan.
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This crisis exploded at the local level in NYC, those who live in de Blasio houses should not throw stones.
Absolutely a total lack of affect when talking about how many people will die and a total disregard about the devastation caused to the families, friends and communities of those who have died. Only thing he has empathy for economic ratings from last year. coronavirus
cut the BS already, Trump has been as aggressive and energetic as anyone could have been....thank god he shut borders when he was being called a racist....take a look at what was being said in NYC for crying out loud by the mayor as recently as the middle of March
And why don't these feckless WH journalists take him to task on this more ? It's pathetic to let him just get away with the narrative. Biden is doing a piss poor job of leading the resistance. He's practically a Repub
FDA, WHO, CCP, MSM, loads more culpable than our admittedly bumbling leader.
No matter how dumb he tries to play it. The knowledge of death that did not have to be will forever hang around his neck.......
It's definitely The Trump Virus, in my book.
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