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Coronavirus Kushner defends COVID response: “We’re still below the peak” of 2,500 daily deaths
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner defended the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday, telling CBS News’ “Face the Nation” that the current rate of deaths is “still below” the May peak of 2,500 per day and that “we know a lot more than we did five months ago.”Why it matters: The U.S. is…
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White House senior adviser Jared Kushner defended the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday, telling CBS News’ “Face the Nation” that the current rate of deaths is “still below” the May peak of 2,500 per day and that “we know a lot more than we did five months ago.”
Why it matters: The U.S. is one of the few wealthy countries that has failed to suppress the outbreak, reporting a total of over 5.3 million confirmed coronavirus cases and nearly 170,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic — by far the highest death rate in the world, according to Johns Hopkins.
The state of play: Other wealthy countries have seen terrifying coronavirus peaks, but the U.S. is
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