President Donald Trump is suggesting that the coronavirus will “go away” regardless of whether there is a vaccine or not.
During the president’s roundtable discussion on Wednesday, he was asked how he expects the coronavirus to “just be gone” without a vaccine.
Trump offered a response to the question, saying, “It’s going to go. It’s going to leave. It’s going to be gone. It’s going to be eradicated and it might take longer, might be in smaller sections.”
The president went on to say that the White House Coronavirus Task Force team now knows how to quickly combat outbreaks in certain areas alluding to the idea of them being able to handle the crisis regardless of whether a vaccine exists or not.
“It won’t be what we had and we also learned a lot. Again, if you have a flare-up in a certain area,” he said adding, “Boom, we put it out.”
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.@benstracy asks Pres. Trump how he expects coronavirus to be "gone" without a vaccine
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 29, 2020
Trump: "It's gonna go, it's gonna leave, it's gonna be gone, it's gonna be eradicated. It might take longer, it might be in smaller sections. It won't be what we had." https://t.co/9T8aUPjUrs pic.twitter.com/mc1TqQCPMH
Trump’s latest remarks, which appear to contradict the stance of his global health experts, follow a string of related statements.
The president has said on multiple occasions that the virus would “disappear” and “go away.” However, the number of cases continued to rise.
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Despite Trump’s comments, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Deborah Birx, and other health experts have expressed warnings of what would be needed to be done before life returns back to normal.
On Wednesday, Fauci offered a different perspective on the idea of a “second wave.” According to Fauci, there may not be an actual resurgence because the coronavirus may never go away. He made it clear the coronavirus is not going to disappear, as previously reported on IJR.
“So, it’s not gonna disappear from the planet which means as we get into next season, in my mind, it’s inevitable that we will have a return of the virus — or maybe that it never even went away,” Fauci said. “When it does, how we handle it will determine our fate.”
As of Thursday morning, there are more than 1,064,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States. The death toll has surpassed 61,000.
