Centers for Disease Control and Prevention projects an average of nearly 1,000 deaths per day through Aug. The latest composite forecast from the U.S. death toll, which now stands at 155,000, is expected to accelerate. And it suggests that the president is increasingly out of step with the federal government’s own medical and public health experts. He added, “We have done a great job.”īut the surge in infections, hospitalizations and deaths tells a different story. “Right now, I think it’s under control,” Trump said during an interview with Axios. has administered more virus tests than any other nation and that the percentage of deaths among those infected is among the lowest. Trump and his political advisers insist that the United States has no rival in its response to the pandemic. The result: daily delivery of a mixed message to the public at a moment when coherence is most needed. WASHINGTON (AP) - In the early days of the coronavirus crisis, President Donald Trump was flanked in the White House briefing room by a team of public health experts in a seeming portrait of unity to confront the disease that was ravaging the globe.īut as the crisis has spread to all reaches of the country, with escalating deaths and little sense of endgame,a chasm has widened between the president and the experts. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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