The U.S. isThis story will continue to be updated. Keep scrolling for other recent highlights.President Donald Trump on Thursday went after the “fake news” media for casting his response to coronavirus in what he characterized as a bad light.“I think it’s an incredible achievement what our country’s done,” Trump told reporters at the White House.
Pence led his first task force meeting amid questions about who exactly is leading the response efforts. During his visit to HHS, Pence also made a stop at the Secretary’s Operations Center to say hello to government employees monitoring the outbreak. Employees sat at computers and took note of outbreak numbers around the world on large video screens at the front of the room.U.S. stocks plummeted Thursday despite the Trump administration’s efforts to calm markets and fears about the coronavirus outbreak. The Dow closed nearly 1,200 points in the red after a volatile day in the market.
Trump’s alternately combative and light-hearted press conference on the government’s coronavirus response did little to calm escalating global concerns about the epidemic, as U.S. markets continued to slide upon opening Thursday morning amid reports the virus continues to spread to more countries. of tests to public health labs around the country has raised concerns that the coronavirus could be spreading undetected.
The governor said federal officials earlier Thursday assured that "testing protocols will be advanced with urgency." The state's 200 testing kits were a "simply inadequate" number, Newsom said, and he called it a top priority to conduct "point of contact" testing where patients are staying. The woman, the first patient likely to have contracted coronavirus within a U.S. community, spent three days in the Vacaville hospital before being transferred to the University of California, Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, where she was finally tested.
The measure is likely to include orders requiring the Trump administration to replenish the $136 million it plans to transfer from various health accounts to pad out its coronavirus response. The ban does not extend to “essential travel,” which includes transit between controlled access compounds and authorized hotels, grocery stores and medical appointments. The ban also does not apply to leave outside the theater, according to the memo.Sen. Patty Murray on Thursday called on President Donald Trump to replace Vice President Mike Pence as head of the coronavirus response team, citing the vice president’s “lack of public health experience and record of putting ideology over science.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are insisting the money cannot be "stolen from other accounts" and must include stipulations to prevent Trump from transferring the funding to anything besides combating infectious diseases.
Now you want the Trump administration help, and he will sure help this is of high importance. However you still do not want the southern border closed were it’s so easy to slip right on in. Maybe this will get us working together for the American people.
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What a resemblance...
Shut down the borders now!!!!!!!
My biggest concern are the homeless...😢
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