"It could get worse before it gets better. It could maybe go away. We'll see what happens. Nobody really knows."
If Trump had written A Tale of Two Cities:
Nobody really knows. It's like a miracle.
Speaking on MSNBC's "Hardball," [Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a former health policy adviser in the Obama administration], now a special adviser to the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), said that Trump's comments indicated how little the president knew about public health.
He also stressed that health officials still do not know vital information about the virus, which first appeared in China and has since infected more than 80,000 people in more than three dozen countries. The U.S. has reported 60 confirmed cases of the virus.
"I found most of what he said a little incoherent," Emanuel said, pointing to Trump's admission that he was shocked by the number of people who die from the common flu annually.
"You know, [Trump's] a guy that admitted that he’s surprised that 25,000 to 69,000 people each year die of the flu. That just tells you how little he actually knows about public health and about the health of the American public," he added. "He just revealed how ignorant he is about the situation. We don’t know how similar or dissimilar this is to the flu.
"We know one thing. It is actually more communicable than the flu. It passes between people very, very easily."
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The CDC’s Anne Schuchat said at Wednesday's press conference that the "trajectory" for the coronavirus in the U.S. remains "very uncertain," adding that now was the time for businesses and schools to look into "pandemic preparedness plans."
The Trump administration earlier this week requested $2.5 billion in emergency funding from Congress for its coronavirus response. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) has countered that with a call for $8.5 billion in emergency funding.
The Hill
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