We are making efforts to contain it: Mark Meadows
Washington:
Donald Trump’s chief of staff said on Sunday that “we are not going to control the pandemic”, criticizing the Biden campaign “for admitting defeat”.
Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was speaking amid a sharp resurgence of the coronavirus across the United States, with the number of cases setting daily records and deaths quickly approaching 225,000.
When a CNN interviewer asked Meadows why the administration wouldn’t get control of the virus, he replied, “Because it’s a contagious virus like the flu.”
He then qualified it by saying, “We are making efforts to contain it.”
Democrat Joe Biden’s running mate Kamala Harris was asked during a Michigan campaign stop over Meadows’ comments and said: “They admit defeat, and I say it, and Joe Biden said it from the start. “
She slammed Meadows for likening the coronavirus to the flu, according to a report from the Pool.
“It is the biggest failure of any presidential administration in the history of America,” she said.
Biden and Harris hammered Trump on his handling of the pandemic, which has seen the United States suffer about a fifth of the world‘s total deaths, although its population is only 4% of the total.
The disease has reached the depths of the White House itself.
Three weeks after Trump was hospitalized with Covid-19, a spokesperson announced on Saturday that Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, had tested positive – but added that Pence would nonetheless continue to crisscross the country. country in the last days of the campaign.
CNN interviewer Jake Tapper lobbied Meadows about Pence, who heads the White House Coronavirus Task Force, apparently posting guidelines from the federal Centers for Disease Control while traveling and not putting himself in quarantine after exposure to Short.
“I can tell you he’s wearing a mask and will be wearing a mask today,” Meadows said. “Obviously when you have exposure you have to take additional mitigating factors.”
Harris briefly stayed out of the election campaign after a senior official tested positive.
In the meantime, even though Biden regularly wears masks and holds small, socially distant gatherings, Trump will continue to host much larger events without any mask requirements, Meadows said.
“We are not imposing masks,” he said. “We offer them. We live in a free society.”
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