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By contrast, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, Deborah Birx, said on television on April 26 that social distancing would be necessary through the summer. [89] On April 27, with over 55,000 deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S., Trump stated that the U.S. was "probably heading to 60,000, 70,000" deaths. [90]
The Trump administration replaced Christi Grimm as Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services after she produced a report documenting severe shortages of medical supplies in U.S. hospitals as COVID-19 cases increased, which contradicted President Trump's claims that hospitals had what they needed. [161]
The White House Coronavirus Task Force was the United States Department of State task force during the Trump administration. The goal of the Task Force was to coordinate and oversee the administration's efforts to monitor, prevent, contain, and mitigate the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). [ 1 ]
With just a month to go until the election, President Trump had a busy schedule during the week that ended with him testing positive for coronavirus. Timeline of President Trump's activities in ...
The New York Times reported that President Trump was told "at the time" of a January 29 memo by trade adviser Peter Navarro that the coronavirus could cause as many as half a million deaths and trillions in economic damage. Further, on January 30, HHS Secretary Azar warned President Trump about the "possibility of a pandemic".
Here are the important claims about the US' coronavirus response from Trump's speech that were later clarified or walked back: The Department of Homeland Security issued a major clarification to ...
President Trump is diagnosed with COVID-19, but keeps this a secret from the public [114] [115] (knowledge of this diagnosis becomes public in November 2021). President Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy left by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on September 18. [116]
referring to the number of COVID-19 tests performed daily. Trump responds by saying, "They're losing their lives everywhere in the world. And maybe that's a question you should ask China. Don't ask me, ask China that question, OK?". [46] [47] President Trump and members of the coronavirus task force hold a news conference (May 11, 2020) Tuesday ...