{"id":59089,"date":"2020-07-19T14:21:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T14:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/coronavirus-updates-trump-dismisses-rising-cases-as-deaths-mount\/"},"modified":"2020-07-19T14:21:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T14:21:20","slug":"coronavirus-updates-trump-dismisses-rising-cases-as-deaths-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/virusreports.net\/coronavirus-updates-trump-dismisses-rising-cases-as-deaths-mount\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus updates: Trump dismisses rising cases as deaths mount"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<section>\n<p>With coronavirus cases rising across the country and the U.S. death toll topping 137,000, President Trump on Sunday dismissed concerns about the surge of infections, telling Fox News that \u201cmany of those cases shouldn\u2019t even be cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of those cases are young people that would heal in a day,\u201d the president told Fox News host Chris Wallace in an interview. \u201cThey have the sniffles and we put it down as a test.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<p>Coronavirus infections rose in states from every region of the country over the past week, with more than a dozen states on Saturday reaching record highs in their seven-day averages for new daily cases.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia, Missouri, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Kentucky reported new single-day case records on Saturday, while states from Vermont to North Dakota to Oregon showed significant increases in their weekly averages, according to tracking by The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>More than 20 states are reporting seven-day averages in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2020\/02\/28\/what-you-need-know-about-coronavirus\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4&#038;itid=lk_inline_manual_7\">coronavirus<\/a>-related deaths that are higher than at the end of June, underscoring the turnaround since May and June, when deaths declined nationally \u2014 which Trump had touted as a sign of progress.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some other significant developments.<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span>The Trump administration is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/us-policy\/2020\/07\/18\/white-house-testing-budget-cdc-coronavirus\/?hpid=hp_hp-banner-main_bailouthill-310pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans&#038;itid=lk_inline_manual_7&#038;itid=lk_inline_manual_9\">trying to block billions of dollars<\/a> for states to conduct testing and contact tracing in an upcoming coronavirus relief bill, people involved in the talks said Saturday. The administration is also trying to block billions that GOP senators want to allocate for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the people said.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>A growing number of Americans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/biden-leads-by-double-digits-as-coronavirus-takes-a-toll-on-the-president-post-abc-poll-finds\/2020\/07\/18\/8d041884-c840-11ea-b037-f9711f89ee46_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disapprove<\/a> of Trump\u2019s handling of the pandemic. Currently, 38 percent approve of his handling, and 60 percent disapprove.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>A <a href=\"https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/eid\/article\/26\/10\/20-1315_article\">study from South Korea<\/a> could bolster those who argue that reopening classrooms in much of the United States is too risky, suggesting that while children under 10 are less likely to spread the coronavirus, those between ages 10 and 19 will spread it similarly to adults.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Georgia\u2019s presentation of its coronavirus data is<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/05\/18\/only-america-is-sunday-day-after-thursday\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_9&#038;itid=lk_inline_manual_12\"> again under scrutiny<\/a>, with a viral<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andishehnouraee\/status\/1284237474831761408\"> tweet <\/a>pointing out how the color-coding of a government map has evolved. At the <a href=\"https:\/\/covidtracking.com\/screenshots\/GA\/GA-20200701-183452.png\">beginning of the month<\/a>, for instance, a county needed at least 5,959 coronavirus cases to be colored red in the state\u2019s map of the outbreak. <a href=\"https:\/\/dph.georgia.gov\/covid-19-daily-status-report\">Now<\/a>, a county needs at least 9,597 \u2014 with the result that no other county has newly joined the four that have been colored red since July 1, even as the state\u2019s cases have jumped by more than 37 percent in that period.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Health authorities are seeking to conduct testing faster while conserving resources. The Food and Drug Administration on Saturday reissued an emergency use authorization to Quest Diagnostics for a coronavirus test to be used in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/what-is-pool-testing-and-how-does-it-work\/2020\/06\/26\/33eee7ea-b7e4-11ea-a510-55bf26485c93_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_10&#038;itid=lk_inline_manual_13\">pool testing<\/a>, which involves combining samples from several people and testing them all at once.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2020\/07\/19\/coronavirus-update-us\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With coronavirus cases rising across the country and the U.S. death toll topping 137,000, President Trump on Sunday dismissed concerns about the surge of infections, telling Fox News that \u201cmany of those cases shouldn\u2019t even be cases.\u201d\u201cMany of those cases are young people that would heal in a day,\u201d the president told Fox News host&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[5,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-59089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-coronavirus","9":"tag-updates"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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