Vice President Mike Pence, attending to coronavirus concerns in the U.S. on Sunday early morning talk programs, said the threat of Americans contracting COVID-19, the disease brought on by the infection, “remains low” though future deaths are “possible.”
” There will be more cases. There’s no concern,” he said in an interview on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” during which he also implicated Democrats of overhyping and politicizing the virus.
Pence, who was tapped by President Donald Trump recently to supervise the administration’s action to the outbreak, worried that regardless of the current death of a Washington man, “the large majority” of cases will recover. Individuals dealing with the greatest threat of death from COVID-19 are those with other health issues.
” For people that have other conditions that would militate towards a worse outcome … we could have more. We might have more unfortunate news,” he said in a different interview with CNN’s State of the Union “However the American people must know the danger for the average American remains low.”
There have been 22 validated and presumptive favorable cases of the virus in the U.S. since late January, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention This figure does not consist of the 4