Coronavirus live news: US deaths could reach 240,000 as UN says world faces worst crisis since WW2
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Trump also said that “nobody knew how contagious this virus was”.
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“Nobody knew how contagious this was,” Trump said. “I don’t think any doctor new it at the time. People have not seen anything like this.”
US president Donald Trump has just finished a White House briefing, one of the more memorable because of the predictions coming out of the coronavirus task force’s modelling.
“It’s an incredibly dark topic,” Trump said, before leaving the podium. “An incredibly horrible topic. And it’s incredibly interesting. That’s why everybody is, They’re going crazy, they can’t get enough of it.”
This White House briefing room slide lists as “goals” 100,000 to 240,000 deaths.
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