President Trump sought to ease rising fears about the coronavirus epidemic on a day when the first U.S. death from COVID-19 was reported and more cases were reported on the West Coast.
Trump said that a “medically high risk” woman in Washington state had died from the virus but added no other details about her case. State health officials, in their own statement, said a middle-aged man with underlying health problems had died of the virus. There was no immediate explanation for the conflicting descriptions, but they appeared to refer to the same case.
The president said he had put in place “the most aggressive actions taken anywhere in the world,” although China has confined millions of people to their homes, and other countries, including Japan and South Korea, have taken strong measures including closing public schools. Walking a line of trying to assure nervous citizens while assessing the threat from the virus, Trump said he had “met for two and a half hours” with Vice President Mike Pence and his coronavirus task force, which Pence heads.
The first U.S. death in the United Sates was reported in King County, Washington, the health department there reported Saturday morning. Thousands of people across the West Coast who might have come into contact with infected individuals are being monitored for signs of infection. Alex Azar, secretary of Health and Human Services, said at Saturday’s news conference that it was still safe for Americans to travel to California, Washington and Oregon.
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