Staggering Figure is the Result of Donald Trump’s Failure
In response to the United States reaching yet another devastating milestone as cases across the country hit 7 million, Protect Our Care’s Coronavirus War Room Director Zac Petkanas released the following statement:
“At every opportunity, Donald Trump continues to claim that this pandemic will disappear and that the country has turned the corner. Like so much of his approach to this pandemic response, it’s an outright lie and the fact that the US recorded it’s 7 millionth case today should be seen as an abject failure of his Administration.
“Contrary to Trump’s claims that the virus affects ‘virtually nobody,’ the truth is that each of the 7 million Americans who’ve contracted this virus have suffered in some way – more than 200,000 have lost their battle with COVID-19 and many more will experience lifelong health impacts.
“That we have reached 7 million cases is a failure directly attributable to Trump putting his political agenda before the health and safety of the Americans he’s supposed to serve. And this milestone is a monument to his reckless decision to downplay the crisis, undermine experts and rush states to reopen even when it wasn’t safe.”