A conference between President Donald Trump and health authorities that was meant to assure the general public about the coronavirus rather became a sideshow in which the president applauded himself, inquired about television scores and recommended sick travelers on a cruise liner stay there since he didn’t want to include them in U.S. infection numbers.
At least 17 people in the U.S. have actually died from the coronavirus and more than 200 people in the country are infected.
None of these truths stopped the president from patting himself on the back as he bragged about being as clever as the general public health specialists charged with managing the circumstance.
” People are really surprised I comprehend this stuff,” Trump said during a press briefing at the CDC. “Each of these physicians stated, ‘How do you understand a lot about this?’ Perhaps I have a natural ability.”
He does not. He has contested a report from World Health Company researchers that put the death rate from the infection at 3.4%.
” I believe the 3.4%is really an incorrect number,” Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Wednesday. “Now, and this is simply my hunch, and– but based upon a great deal of discussions with a great deal of people that do this.”
In a conference with health experts on Monday, Trump asked why doctors do not simply administer the flu vaccine to fight the virus.
” But the exact same vaccine could not work?” he said. “You take a solid influenza vaccine– you do not think that would have an effect or much of an effect on corona?”
It would not have an effect, the experts told him.
During Friday’s visit to the CDC, Trump extolled having ” gorgeous” coronavirus screening sets, and bizarrely declared they were as “best” as the phone