WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Wednesday blamed a dramatic buildup of coronavirus cases in the United States for other young people who have witnessed national protests opposed to police brutality, summer vacations, a “substantial increase in travel” and migrants crossing the United States. The Mexican border, his own advisers also attributed the increase to the first reopenings of some states.
Outbreaks across the country have led 10 states to set seven-day records for new cases, while five states have recorded a record number of deaths that period, according to USA TODAY’s research into Johns Hopkins’ knowledge Tuesday night.
“There are probably a number of reasons for the outbreak of infections. The cases began to escalation among young Americans shortly after the protests, which you know very well, which probably triggered a broader reduction in mitigation efforts across the country,” Trump said. Reporters at a white conference. House briefing, referring to mass protests over the death of George Floyd.
“We also set a 2,000-mile border with Mexico, as we know very well, and the instances are expanding in Mexico.
The U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada have been closed since mid-March to stop the spread of COVID-19.
As Trump spoke Wednesday night, one of his own fitness experts, Dr. Deborah Birx, told Fox News that the premature opening of some states was something else of the epidemic.
“This is a time when we can attribute ourselves to Memorial Day and inauguration, and to other people who travel back and on vacation,” said the coordinator of the White House Working Group on Coronavirus.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s leading infectious disease specialist and working group member, said earlier this month that the accumulation of cases is attributed to early openings.
“There are times when, despite the rules and recommendations to open with care and caution, some states ignored them and simply opened too quickly,” Fauci told Podcast-19, FiveThirtyEight’s weekly podcast at COVID-19.
“Certainly Florida, I know, you know, I’ve crossed some checkpoints,” he added.
The president suggested that young Americans “avoid crowded bars” and other crowded places he said was the recent outbreak and, for a moment, insisted that others stick to federal fitness guidelines, adding dresses in a mask and social estrangement.
“I find more and more people who say they wash their hands. So wash your hands,” he added.
Trump said his administration “anticipated” the COVID-19 outbreak in the country’s solar belt region, adding Florida, Texas, Georgia, and Arizona, but acknowledged that those states were among the first to follow suit by proposing coronavirus. restrictions in the spring.
After all, first, supporting national closures to curb the spread of COVID-19 for several weeks, Trump began encouraging governors to restrict and reopen business in early April.
Republican governors who are heavily allied with Trump, adding Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, were among the first to aggressively implement reopening plans even as their coronavirus infection rates continued to rise.
In Wednesday’s briefing, the president also avoided a question about whether it would help a short-term extension of the additional $600 that millions of Americans have earned in addition to their weekly unemployment benefits to help deal with the economic consequences of the pandemic. – One of the many issues blocking ongoing negotiations on the upcoming coronavirus relief package on Capitol Hill.
“I think at the end of the day everything will come out of it,” he said.
Trump gave the impression to reporters for the moment this week as he tries to press the reset button amid a complaint about his government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis. The president continues to face questions about his handling of the pandemic as his declining number of ballots showed his Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, in several states on the battlefield by November.
In the weeks following the last circular of briefings in March and April, Trump chose to give a positive turn to the country’s coronavirus crisis, promoting the expansion of testing in the United States, despite delays in results, and pressuring schools to reopen. fall as a component of a broader effort to revive the economy.
But he gave the impression of changing course Tuesday, admitting that the pandemic “will probably get worse unfortunately before it gets better” and encouraging Americans to wear a mask, a federal fitness directive that he rejected until a stop at Walter Reed Hospital earlier this month.
Despite his about-face on the severity of the pandemic, Trump continued to paint an optimistic outlook, suggesting the health experts could develop a cure “in a very short period of time.”
“We’re doing incredibly well in healing studies and incredibly well at vaccines,” he said. “We’ll see what happens, however, it would be wonderful if we could go to the hospital and treat other people. Array… we believe that in a very short period of time we will do so.”