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Vice President Mike Pence said Saturday that while most Americans face a low risk from coronavirus, more US deaths could be imminent following the nation's first confirmed fatality.
"We know there will be more cases," Pence told CNN's Jake Tapper in a clip released Saturday, echoing President Donald Trump's earlier comments that additional cases in America were "likely." The full interview between Pence and Tapper is airing on Sunday's "State of the Union."
When asked whether more Americans could die from the disease, Pence, who Trump has put in charge of coronavirus response and messaging, replied, "It is possible."
Pence said that the situation explained to him by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and others is that "most people that contract the coronavirus, they will recover. They will deal with a respiratory illness, we'll get them treatment."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pence-we-could-have-more-coronavirus-deaths/ar-BB10zvtg?li=BBnb7Kz
You just got to pray harder.
mzmolly
(51,020 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,128 posts)mzmolly
(51,020 posts)2naSalit
(87,122 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,054 posts)CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)His Magic 8-Ball is on a hot streak.
captain queeg
(10,390 posts)It almost sounded like a bit of honesty is slipping out
Leghorn21
(13,528 posts)Tapper had a run-in with LOSER45 in India and the entire trumpiverse rose up against him
Really, this is an amazing twist in our godforsaken plot
Seriously
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)kill list much like Comcast Media?
Leghorn21
(13,528 posts)gathering today -
This is a strange turn of events, for real!!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Funny thing about the Comcast part. One of Comcast's major stockholders as well as Board Members is the Orange Anus's largest Bundler as well as single donor.
BTW,the Orange Anus tombstoned a High Speed Rail build that would have caused his Donor some issues.
Golden Raisin
(4,621 posts)not bible-thumping, medically unqualified Pence. They are silencing Fauci.
irisblue
(33,084 posts)concerned citizen (@concit1USA) Tweeted:
And there's your VP and his coronavirus team, praying away the disease! We are in a steaming heap of shit! https://t.co/vk4YzvQuKm
Link to tweet
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irisblue
(33,084 posts)spokes weasel, Katie Waldman, who just married the Goebbels clone Miller
at140
(6,110 posts)Seasonal influenza is a killer, even in milder years. Lately, mild flu seasons tend to kill about 12,000 Americans, and more severe flu seasons kill up to 56,000.
2017 was the deadliest flu season since 1976, when the agency starting publishing annual influenza trends, CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield told the Associated Press in the fall.
https://www.vox.com/2018/9/27/17910318/flu-deaths-2018-epidemic-outbreak-shot
Hekate
(91,212 posts)at140
(6,110 posts)proportions and reality. If average flu season kills 12,000 in a season in US and CoViD has killed a couple so far, I am not going to change my routine life over CoViD. Just got back from a cruise today on Carnival Esctasy ship. It was without a single problem, lot of fun and very good cuisine. Never saw a single soul wearing face masks on the ship, until we disembarked in Jacksonville, where I saw a few idiots wearing face masks. I am washing hands every chance I get to get away from ordinary flu, and don't have any face masks for CoViD. And I pay no attention to Trump.
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