More than 194,000 people have died from COVID-19 in America, according to an NBC News analysis, with more than 6.5 million total cases in the U.S
WASHINGTON — Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel on Sunday defended President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus, after book excerpts released last week showed that the president publicly downplayed the threat in the pandemic's early months.
In audio excerpts of a new book released last week, Trump told journalist Bob Woodward about the coronavirus: “I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down because I don’t want to create a panic.” “Think of what would have happened if he'd have gone out and said,"This is awful. We should all be afraid. We don't have a plan." It would have been a run on the banks. It would have been a run on the hospitals. It would have been a run on the grocery stores.”
“Science has to rule the day here. Science is what got us to the moon and allowed us to build medieval cathedrals, it eradicated smallpox and really reduced polio. And so, I hope that we stick with the science and not with all this rhetoric that we're hearing right now. When asked about the outsized number of deaths in America — about one-fifth of all world coronavirus deaths are from the U.S. — McDaniel shifted the blame to governors.
And she downplayed the president’s months-long resistance to endorsing masks, though Trump equivocated on mask-wearing for months, even as top voices within his administration repeatedly told the public as early as April that wearing masks would be essential to stopping the spread of the virus.
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