Trump Says U.S. In A Good Place And Disagrees With Fauci

Trump says that the United States is "in a good place" and that he disagrees with Fauci that the United States is "knee-deep in the first wave." The United States death toll for coronavirus tops 131,000. Trump is scheduled to travel to Florida, a coronavirus hot spot, where hospitalizations in Miami-Dade have jumped 90 percent in 13 days. Also, Trump falsely states that the United States mortality rate for coronavirus is the "lowest" in the world. 14 of 20 most affected countries have lower rates than the United States. As at least 24 states pause or rollback reopening, Trump says, "We're not closing. We'll never close." Trump vows to "put pressure on governors and everybody else" to reopen schools in the fall as the coronavirus surges. Devos says "it's not a matter of if" but "how." The National Education Association president says "parents should be panicked." Trumps says that reopening schools is "very important for our country." 

Fauci says "it's a false narrative to take comfort in a lower rate of death."

A key model, cited by the White House, is now projecting that the United States will have 208,000 more coronavirus deaths by November. 

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