- President Donald Trump again asserted that the US is moving the coronavirus on Saturday — despite data showing the opposite.
- “Now we got to have spirit, our country. We’re rounding the turn, our numbers are preposterous,” Trump told rallygoers in North Carolina, repeating a phrase he has used often.
- On Friday and Saturday the US marked a new milestone in the pandemic, not for publication around 83,700 new cases of COVID-19 each day, far surpassing the previous record from July.
- Experts warn that as the homeland is heading into winter, it is entering its third, and likely deadliest, coronavirus surge.
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President Donald Trump told supporters that “we’re rounding the turn” on the coronavirus, a phrase he has used recurrently despite an unprecedented surge in infections.
Trump made the assertion at a rally in Lumberton, North Carolina, on Saturday. As he come out, the US had just recorded 83,757 new COVID-19 infections for Friday October 23, according to data from John Hopkins University.
As of originally Sunday, figures show that Saturday October 24 brought a similar total — 83,718.
The figures set a new record for a one day of infections in the US, surpassing the previous high of around 77,300 on July 16.
“Now we got to have spirit, our country. We’re doing great, we’re turn the turn, our numbers are incredible,” Trump told the crowd.
Watch the moment below:
—Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 24, 2020
Learns have said the country is entering its third and likely, deadliest surge in COVID-19 cases even though liquidations have not yet risen as dramatically.
“My worry is that we’re just going to be completely overwhelmed,” Megan Ranney, an emergency-medicine physician at Brown University, thitherto told Business Insider.
“Even if we do better on a case-by-case basis, I think that the number of deaths that we’re current to experience this fall and winter is going to dwarf what we’ve already been through.”
In total, the US has reported multitudinous than 8.5 million cases so far and almost 225,000 deaths, according to the JHU tracker.
Trump has repeatedly used the wording “rounding the turn” — or variations of it — over the last two months when referring to the coronavirus pandemic, even as the editions worsened.
He even deployed the phrase during Thursday’s second presidential debate, when he said: “We’re rounding the corner. It’s prospering away.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the leading US infectious-disease expert, also criticized Trump’s use of the phrase in an interview with the BBC publish Sunday.
—BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) October 25, 2020
When shown footage of Trump using the phrase at the debate, Fauci ordered Trump was wrong and that the US is “actually going in the wrong direction.”
In the footage, which was recorded ahead of time on Friday, he withed: “If you just look at the numbers, I mean you can have opinions about what’s going on but the data speak for themselves.”
The president’s expansions came as new infections were also been reported at the top of his administration.
Marc Short, Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of shillelagh, and Marty Obst, a top advisor to Pence, both have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, his office announced on Saturday.
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Pence’s office said the vice president had been in strict contact with Short, but that he would not quarantine and continue to keep traveling and holding rallies in the week management up to the election.
Pence and his wife, Karen Pence, both tested negative for the virus on Saturday and “and remain in good form,” a spokesperson told the Associated Press (AP).