Vice President Mike Pence detailed the administration’s role in developing a vaccine for the Chinese coronavirus, an undertaking it began in February, saying on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily that he believes the country will have a vaccine “before the end of this year.”
In a Wednesday interview on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) discussed his call to dismantle the White House’s Corona
Southern states are experiencing a surge in Chinese coronavirus cases because they opened too fast, Dr. Deborah Birx, a top White House health official, declared on Tuesday, noting that the U.S. has the “capacity” to stem the spread of the disease.
States experiencing growing novel coronavirus outbreaks may need to pause or roll back their reopening stages without necessarily reimposing an “absolute shutdown,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s top infectious disease expert, told a House panel on Tuesday.
The riots in American cities last week and the week before forced the temporary closure of at least 70 separate coronavirus testing sites nationwide, the White House Coronavirus Task Force was told on Tuesday.
Vice President Mike Pence told Breitbart News that he and President Donald Trump are excited to get the United States reopened and moving again as the coronavirus pandemic recedes nationwide.
Hundreds of American physicians have signed a letter addressed to Vice President Pence and the Coronavirus Task Force that urges the total reopening of the nation’s businesses and schools.
A pediatrican wrote in JAMA Pediatrics that the decision to keep school closed during the coronavirus pandemic should not be taken lightly.
There are at least eight candidates for a coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine in the clinical development stage, and some of them could be available by “late fall” or “early winter,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert in the United States, testified on Tuesday.
“We actually want to find an outbreak before it occurs, and we really believe there’s a lot of asymptomatic spread,” Birx told reporters, including Breitbart News, during a meeting with the Coronavirus Task Force.
“The Task Force will continue on indefinitely with its focus on SAFETY & OPENING UP OUR COUNTRY AGAIN,” Trump wrote on Twitter.
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) released an updated epidemiological model on Monday that nearly doubled projections of coronavirus deaths in the United States by August 4 from 72,433 in its April 29 release to 134,475 in Monday’s May 4 release.
Failed Trump challenger Hillary Clinton (D) on Tuesday warned that “Americans will suffer” as the Trump administration signaled it is engaging in “preliminary talks” to shut down the coronavirus task force.
“I think we’re having conversations about that, and about what the proper time is for the task force to complete its work,” Pence said. “And for the ongoing efforts to take place on an agency by agency level.”
The White House dismissed Monday a Centers for Disease Control document showing an estimate of 3,000 daily deaths from the coronavirus by June 1.
Donald Trump Jr., President Donald Trump’s eldest son, told Breitbart News this weekend that the president’s decision to forgo continued White House Coronavirus Task Force briefings is because the establishment media will never give his father a fair shake.
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) stated that regardless of the president’s rhetoric, the Coronavirus Task Force “is pretty constructive.” Lamont said, “[W]hatever rhetoric you hear coming from the Oval Office, the task force is
Calfornia Gov. Gavin Newsom has moved the goal posts for reopening the state, saying up to 80,000 daily coronavirus tests are needed.
In a Monday interview with NBC News affiliate TMJ4, former Vice President Joe Biden said Dr. Anthony Fauci should be the “only person” that the American public should hear from during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, seemingly casting aside other White House task force members such as Dr. Deborah Birx.
President Donald Trump said the White House coronavirus task force would release new guidelines for reopening the country on Thursday.
The European Union has “nearly three times” the novel coronavirus mortality rate that the United States is currently facing, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence told reporters on Monday, echoing Dr. Deborah Birx.
Conservative leaders are calling on President Trump to form a second coronavirus task force with a “different” mission: to “plan and prepare for the re-launching of the American economy.”
The medical professionals on the White House Coronavirus Task Force appear to have lessened their reliance on academic models and increased their reliance on actual coronavirus data provided by state governments.
The Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) model cited by White House Coronavirus Task Force officials appears to dramatically overstate the hospitalization of patients with coronavirus in the United States when the model’s projections are compared to actual data.
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben said Tuesday the Trump administration and the coronavirus task force are together working every day to stop the pandemic. He is confident they are making good progress to that end, including the development of medication to treat the virus that could change the trajectory of its spread in the coming weeks.
The IHME epidemiological model now projects 37 states do not currently have enough hospital bed capacity to handle the peak number of patients expected to be hospitalized in their states.
The Army Corps of Engineers is working on 114 projects across 50 states and five territories to bring additional hospital space.
“Frozen 2” star Josh Gad defended NBC’s Peter Alexander after the reporter’s spat with President Trump at Friday’s coronavirus task force press briefing. Gad called Trump a virus and said he’s a “pig rolling in s**t.”
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took time during Friday’s coronavirus press briefing to rebuff multiple attacks from offended journalists who repeatedly asked if President Trump’s treatment of the press is sending a negative message to other countries during the coronavirus pandemic.
President Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force will host a press briefing at the White House on Thursday.
President Trump announced HUD will lcall a temporary halt to evictions and foreclosures in the housing market during the coronavirus outbreak.
