Across the country, more than 200,000 people have now died from the coronavirus
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Back in March, the White House coronavirus task force coordinator Deborah Birx appeared on NBC News and said, “If we do things together, well, almost perfectly, we can get in the range of 100,000 to 200,000 fatalities,” but added, “We don’t even want to see that.” President Trump has repeatedly downplayed the seriousness of the current outbreaks, recently claiming falsely that “99 percent” of cases are “totally harmless” — despite the fact that he told journalist Bob Woodward in early February that he knew the virus was airborne and “more deadly than even your strenuous flus.
The Trump administration has argued that rising case numbers are the result of expanded testing, which Trump has said is “overrated” and “makes us look bad.” However, public-health experts have said that the country needs to do even more testing to control the outbreak.
What is the federal government doing to fight coronavirus? In March, President Trump declared a national emergency over the coronavirus pandemic, effectively freeing up to $50 billion in federal funds to help states and territories fight the spread of the virus, which he said would include expanding access to testing.
The Trump administration has announced deals to fund vaccine research by a number of companies, including Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Novavax, and Moderna, and researchers have made a number of early steps that look promising. However, AstraZeneca announced last week that it would pause global trials of its vaccine to conduct a safety review after a participant suffered a “serious and unexpected adverse reaction,” according to the Times.
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