Trump administration officials stepped up efforts to downplay dangers from the global coronavirus outbreak amid mounting public anxiety
Trump administration officials stepped up efforts Friday to downplay dangers from the global coronavirus outbreak amid mounting public anxiety, another sharp drop in the stock market and questions about the federal government’s response to the public health threat.
But Friday, she stressed that the CDC was aggressively tracing contacts of Americans sickened by the virus, including the California woman hospitalized at UC Davis Medical Center, who neither traveled overseas nor had any known contact with people who did.Messonnier also promised that coronavirus testing kits are being distributed nationally after weeks of delay caused by flaws discovered in the existing tests.
Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, sought to pin blame for the health crisis on the media. Mulvaney tried to minimize the fatality rate — somewhere near 2% — as far less than other infectious diseases that have created scares. And on her call with reporters Friday, Messonnier pointedly noted that the administration’s tough border policies have prevented a more widespread coronavirus outbreak here.
She pointed out that Anthony S. Fauci, the respected director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, spoke at a public task force meeting Thursday, gave a television interview Friday morning and briefed lawmakers behind closed doors Friday.
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