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Critics Blame Trump’s Optimism Towards Pandemic While Cases Surged Due to Protests

Critics Blame Trump’s Optimism Towards Pandemic While Cases Surged Due to Protests
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By Staff, Agencies

US President Donald Trump maintained optimism amid the coronavirus pandemic, claiming to attendees at a recent White House event that “We’re having some very good numbers coming out in terms of the comeback, the comeback of our nation, and I think it’s going very rapidly and it’s going to be very good,” although his critics and political opponents have sounded alarms over the apparent resurgence of the virus.

Trump has always been eager to reopen for some time, as the US economy has taken a serious beating under the sweeping lockdown measures, seeing more than 47 million Americans thrown out of work.

Crowded mass protests sparked in hundreds of cities by the police killing of George Floyd last month have likely played a role in the recent jump in cases, with demonstrators largely defying social distancing guidelines.

Meanwhile, media coverage of the rise in infections has focused almost exclusively on those gathering at clubs and beaches, however, virtually ignoring the massive marches as a potential factor.

Though some of the recent increases may be explained by ramped-up screenings for the virus, some health experts cautioned that a boost in testing does not account for the full spike – which has applied to hospitalizations in addition to cases – arguing that outbreaks are, in fact, accelerating.

To date, the virus has killed over 125,000 people in the US.

While a rolling seven-day average compiled by the Covid Tracking Project shows fatality figures are down at the moment, the recent spike could soon reverse that trend, as new cases take time to progress to the terminal stage.

The global death toll now verges on 494,000, according to Johns Hopkins University, with nearly 9.8 million infections tallied worldwide.

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