The UK's original plan to deal with the coronavirus by achieving "herd immunity" within the population, would have been "catastrophic" and caused "a lot of death," President Donald Trump has said.
The president said that the UK government's original coronavirus strategy plan, which involved allowing the virus to spread in order to achieve resistance to the virus in the population, would have caused millions of deaths if adopted in the US. "And all of a sudden they went hard the other way because they started seeing things that weren't good, so they put themselves in a little bit of a problem."Watch Trump label original UK coronavirus plan 'catastrophic'At the same briefing, Dr Deborah Birx, the White House's coronavirus response coordinator, said the UK had a dangerously low number of ventilators, which are respiratory machines being used to treat patients suffering from the worst effects of the virus.
Trump last week claimed that Boris Johnson pleaded with the president for the US to send ventilators to the UK.The president's comments are politically embarrassing for Johnson, who is currently struggling to answer questions about why it is testing for the coronavirus at a
hblodget Sweden is doing it now.
Lol like the PoTUS actually knows ANYTHING about viruses let alone Covid-19! Pfft...
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