Vice President Mike Pence hailed “remarkable progress” toward returning the nation to normalcy at the first public briefing of the coronavirus task force in nearly two months on Friday, a day the U.S. saw a new high for coronavirus cases recorded.
“We have made truly remarkable progress in moving our nation forward,” Pence told reporters at a briefing held at the Department of Health and Human Services. “We’ve all seen the encouraging news as we open up America again — more than 3 million jobs created in the last jobs report and retail sales are rolling.”
The death toll from the pandemic in the United States stands at around 125,000, the highest in the world by far. But Dr. Anthony Fauci, another infectious disease expert on the task force, painted a darker picture. In states like New York, which have seen cases and deaths drop dramatically in recent weeks, as well as others that had not experienced severe outbreaks, Fauci cautioned that the risk of the reemergence of COVID-19 remained high.
“At this time, it is clear that the rise in cases is largely driven by certain types of activities, including Texans congregating in bars,” Abbott said in a statement. “If we didn’t test, we wouldn’t have any cases,” Trump said at a shipyard in Marinette. “But we have cases because we test. We’ve done an incredible, historic job.”
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