The New York representative was among many who criticised the appointment of the vice president to the task force tackling the outbreak.
n Scott Country in 2015 and when presented with the idea of a needle exchange to slow the infection rate, he responded by saying,"I'm going to go home and pray on it."
The HIV outbreak in the state was cited by several people on social media as a reason which should disqualify the vice president from heading the U.S. coronavirus response. Yale epidemiologist Gregg Gonsalves, who investigated links between the HIV outbreak in the state to Pence's role as governor, tweeted,"This is a man that totally botched HIV outbreak in Indiana. This is not a good idea and speaks to a lack of seriousness by the @WhiteHouse.
U.S. senator for Hawaii Brian Schatz tweeted,"Mike Pence is for conversion therapy. Mike Pence said smoking didn't cause cancer," referring to an op-ed he wrote two decades ago unearthed by Buzzfeed."Mike Pence doesn't believe climate science. Mike Pence questioned whether or not condoms worked. So."At Wednesday's news conference, Trump was confident that the U.S. would deal with the coronavirus insisting that the risk to Americans"remains very low.
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