I can’t imagine that.”Īfter the president over the weekend held no briefings and even questioned their value, the White House first scheduled a daily briefing to take place this evening - then canceled it - then added a Trump "news conference" - for the same time. Trump was hit with harsh criticism for his comments, but when asked if he takes responsibility for how people might react, he said he doesn't. He later claimed he was being "sarcastic"- and then still later walked out of Friday's briefing without taking questions. The president responded to a question about the potential for people using disinfectant after he floated the idea of injecting it to treat COVID-19 at Thursday's briefing. Win Mcnamee/Getty Images Trump dismisses question on impact of his 'disinfectant' comments "So a lot of people are thinking about the school openings." It's not a big subject, young children have done very well in this disaster that we’ve all gone through," Trump told governors.
Because a lot of people are wanting to have the school openings. "Some of you might start thinking about school openings. The president added in the earlier teleconference that governors should "maybe get going on it,” according to a recording of the call obtained by ABC News. So, I know that there are some governors that aren't necessarily ready to open up states, but they may be ready to open up school systems." Because as you see coming in terms of what this vicious virus goes after, young people seem to do very well. “There is not a long way to go in the school system right now for the season, for this year, but I think you will see a lot of schools open up even if it's for a short period of time,” Trump predicted.
state has ordered schools to close or recommend they be shuttered, most through the end of the current academic year, President Trump told governors during a teleconference earlier Monday they should "seriously consider" reopening their schools and confirmed his suggestion at the evening news conference, noting the virus doesn't impact young people as badly. is well ahead of.Īlex Brandon/AP Trump tells governors to ‘seriously consider’ reopening their schoolsĪlthough every U.S. lagged behind countries like South Korea in testing, which the task force is now insisting the U.S. Places that do not have virus circulating may need less tests,” he said.ĪBC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl asked what lessons the task force has learned in the last month, as the U.S.
You understand that places where there is high virus circulating, we will need many more tests. "The number of tests that need to be done depends on the state level. Giroir also explained that the number of tests distributed to each state depends on the spread of the virus in that state. "Testing plans and rapid response programs will be federally supported, State managed, and locally executed," the "blueprint" document reads.Ī number of state governors have criticized this approach, saying only the federal government has the ability to accelerate testing capacity and coordinate a national testing strategy. Brett Giroir, overseeing testing for the coronavirus task force, following Birx, said that the the government "will be able to supply every state with the supplies and the tests that they need."
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