Mike Pence accuses the media of 'fear mongering' over a second wave of Covid-19 in a misleading Wall Street Journal op-ed that praises Trump
Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification.Vice President Mike Pence announced the administration's "success" in containing the coronavirus epidemic and slammed the press for "sounding the alarm bells over a 'second wave'" of infections.
Pence's rosy picture of the administration's fight against the coronavirus ignores the federal government's delayed and dysfunctional response to the pandemic, which has already killed over 116,000 people in the US. Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday announced the federal government's "success" in containing the US's coronavirus epidemic and slammed the press for "sounding the alarm bells over a 'second wave'" of Covid-19 infections.
Pence celebrated that the daily average infection rate has dropped to about 20,000 new cases per day — down from a high of about 30,000 in April. And he pointed out that daily Covid-19 deaths in the US have declined to 750 over the last five days.
But the vice president failed to mention that coronavirus cases are on the rise in over 20 states — many of the same places that were quick to loosen social distancing orders and reopen businesses. And overall, new Covid-19 cases in the US have"The media has tried to scare the American people every step of the way, and these grim predictions of a second wave are no different," he wrote.
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