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Here we go... another Coronavirus Task Force press conference.
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"I want Americans to be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead. Its going to be a tough 2 weeks... This is going to be a very painful, very, very painful 2 weeks. The kind of death that has been caused by this invisible enemy, it's incredible..."
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"This is a plague. I watch as drs & nurses went into a hospital in Elmhurst, Queens. I know the hospital very well. I've been seeing it all my life. To see the scenes of trailers out there & what they are doing with those trailers. They are freezers. No one can even believe it"
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"The country has come together like I've never seen it before. We will prevail. We will win. And hopefully it will be in relatively short period of time."
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"No one has been turned away." Dr. Birx on people getting into hospitals. This is not true.
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"There is no magic bullet. There is no magic therapeutic or vaccine." Dr. Birx really pushes on this as right wing media/personalities still promote misinformation about such things for COVID19.
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Can someone PLEASE edit together all the times
@VP has held up the corona reference card?@VicBergerIV
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We're now on to the part of the press conference where the anti-science VP props up Trump as doing a fantastic job with the handling of the coronavirus response.
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VP now talking about drive-thru test sites again. What is the latest with these? Are these actually happening and functional?
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"Help is on the way. At the president's direction, we're gonna leave no stone unturned. We're going to make sure you have the equipment and resources to do your jobs." - Pencepic.twitter.com/4jOsgGCbIW
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And here we go... time for the Q&A. Trump does appear to be more sedated than usual. He has stuck to the script so far and even passed an important question to Dr. Birx instead of answering it himself.
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"As sobering a number as that is [100K deaths] , we should be prepared for it. Is it going to be that much? I hope not... the more we push on the mitigation, the less likelihood it will be that number..." - Dr. Fauci on the possible death toll
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