Pandemic may get worse before it gets better: Trump

Jubilee News Desk

COVID-19 pandemic may get worse before things improve finally said US president Donald trump, as he revived his virus briefings.

Trump, who a few weeks before had refused to wear mask in public and then made a public appearance with mask, asked Americans to wear face coverings, saying masks have an effect.

The president, who was not wearing a mask at the briefing, has previously disparaged them as unsanitary. His aides have reportedly pressed him to adopt a more measured approach as virus caseloads spike across the US.

The daily White House news conferences ended soon after Trump suggested in April during freewheeling remarks from the podium that the virus might be treated by injecting disinfectant into people.

In his first White House coronavirus briefing for months on Tuesday, a less off-the-cuff president echoed what public health officials on his pandemic task force have been saying as he warned: “It will probably unfortunately get worse before it gets better.

Trump who more than once referred to Covid-19 as the China virus took a mask from his pocket in the briefing room, but did not put it on. Trump is facing an uphill climb to re-election in November against Democratic challenger, Joe Biden.

Donald Trump’s afternoon coronavirus press briefings are back. Regardless of what the president said during his brief appearance on Tuesday, the simple fact of their return speaks volumes about the dismal course the pandemic has taken in the US in the past three months.

Cases are rising, particularly in the south and west, perhaps most directly as a result of the administration’s support for states to end mitigation measures before public-health benchmarks were met.

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