Rocketing Covid-19 infections expose Trump’s callous claim pandemic is ‘handled’ – Analysis by Stephen Collinson (CNN) / July 3 2020
(CNN)This is what President Donald Trump’s “handled” pandemic looks like.
The United States, the world leader in Covid-19 infections and deaths, is reeling from an out-of-control resurgence of the virus that is racking up record numbers of 50,000-plus new infections each day now.
Texas, Florida and Arizona — Republican-run states that most aggressively embraced Trump’s impatient demands to get the economy open again — are heading into what one expert warned is a viral threat that is approaching “apocalyptic” levels.
All over the country, including in rule-resistant Texas, authorities are imposing mask mandates that Trump will still not endorse and are slowing or reversing economic opening plans as a Covid-19 summer becomes reality. It now seems certain that a predicted fall spike of the virus will simply become an extension of relentless months of sickness and death.
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