National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow on Sunday defended his claim in February that the coronavirus break out in the U.S. was “contained,” informing CNN‘s Jake Tapper his quote was based on “the actual facts” at the time.
But federal public health officials had actually been sounding the alarm about the potential risk of the virus before then.
” We have contained this,” Kudlow, President Donald Trump‘s top economic adviser, informed CNBC on Feb.25 “I will not state airtight, however pretty near to airtight.”
” This is a human catastrophe,” he included.
Obviously, Kudlow was incorrect about both the infection’s spread and its economic impact. Since Sunday, more than 1.1 million individuals in the U.S. are understood to have contracted the virus and at least 67,000 have actually died. Approximately 30 million Americans have looked for unemployment because mid-March in the middle of sweeping business closures.
Throughout an interview with CNN’s “State of the Union,” host Tapper asked Kudlow if there’s a detach between Trump administration authorities