President Trump predicts the coronavirus will “just disappear” one day. Or so he hopes.
Even with the COVID-19 outbreak going through a resurgence across the United States, the president was optimistic when speaking to Fox Business’s The Claman Countdown on Wednesday.
“I think we are going to be very good with the coronavirus,” Trump said. “I think that at some point, that’s going to sort of just disappear, I hope.”
There has been an increase in coronavirus cases in the U.S., especially in Southern states, over the past couple of weeks. The upswing came as states were in the middle of reopening their economies, and now, several governors are stopping or backtracking on those plans. Trump’s campaign even canceled a rally in Alabama next week after hosting its first one in months in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday, June 20, as the number of cases jumped in the state.
Since the outbreak began, there have been more than 2.6 million coronavirus cases across the country and more than 125,000 deaths.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House coronavirus task force and the country’s leading government expert on infectious diseases, testified to Congress on Tuesday that he expected as many as 100,000 new coronavirus cases a day “if this does not turn around.”
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said he sees the “window closing” for the country to get control of the situation.
Trump also reiterated his belief that a vaccine will be ready “very soon,” though Fauci has warned that it is unlikely that any vaccine will be “100% effective.”
