Donald Trump and his aides get back to business as usual even as COVID-19 cases are on the upswing in many parts of the US
Kids carry home free lunch kits delivered by boat by the Education Ministry, in Megalco, Brazil. COVID-19 deaths in Brazil rose by 1,239 to 40,919 and cases by 30,412 to 8,08,828 in the past 24 hours. Pic/AFP
At the White House, aides now routinely flout internal rules requiring masks. The president-s campaign is again scheduling mass arena rallies. And he is back to spending summer weekends at his New Jersey golf club. Three months after President Donald Trump bowed to the realities of a pandemic that put big chunks of life on pause and killed more Americans than several major wars, Trump is back to business as usual — even as novel Coronavirus cases are on the upswing in many parts of the country.
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While the nation has now had months to prepare stockpiles of protective gear and ventilators, a vaccine still is many months away at best and a model cited by the White House projects tens of thousands of more deaths by the end of September. Amid renewed fears of a virus resurgence, financial markets — frequently highlighted by Trump as a sign of economic recovery — suffered their worst drop since March on Thursday.
At the White House, though, officials played down the severity of the virus surge and sought to blame it on factors beyond Trump-s forceful push to reopen the economy, which he-s counting on to help him win re-election. "The data shows that we are moving in the right direction as a nation," said Surgeon General Jerome Adams, who stressed the country has a positive testing rate under 6 per cent.
At the White House, the COVID-19 task force has dramatically scaled back both its visibility and its operations. It now meets once or twice a week on an as-needed basis instead of every day.
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