Former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday took aim at President Donald Trump‘s handling of the growing coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., advising elected leaders to follow the suggestions of public health professions and revealing his own plan to fight the spread of the illness.
” We will lead by science. … Downplaying it, being overly dismissive, or spreading misinformation is just going to hurt us and further advantage the spread of the illness,” Biden said in an address from his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware.
The front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination sought to forecast calm and stability in the middle of an international pandemic that has actually disrupted the lives of Americans and threatened an economic recession. It followed Trump’s error-laded Oval Office address on Wednesday night, which triggered confusion at home and abroad when the president misstated numerous of his administration’s policies targeted at dealing with the outbreak, consisting of a ban on some travel from European nations.
Biden stated that labeling COVID-19 a “foreign virus,” as Trump called it in his address, “does not displace the responsibility for the misjudgments that have taken place up until now by the Trump administration.”
” The coronavirus doesn’t have a political association. It will not discriminate on national origin, race, or zip code. It will touch people in positions of power, along with the most susceptible in society,” Biden sai