Coronavirus USA: What is Donald Trump's strategy?

Coronavirus USA: What is Donald Trump's strategy?

 

Coronavirus USA: What is Donald Trump's strategy?

Reality Bites refrigerated trucks  outside a Manhattan hospital to store  bodies because the morgue is full under  the gaze of the Empire State Building on  the street signs that people realize  it's serious  New Yorkers now wear masks and gloves in  public soldiers are deployed to help  extraordinary times and even aid from  unusual places  I love that expression you go to war  with what you have not what you need  right we're not at the apex so we're  still in the stage where we have the  luxury if you will of gathering as much  as we can so the 1,000 ventilators and  was from China and the 140 from Oregon  and was still shopping the rest of the  United States is watching New Orleans  has opened a medical support facility in  a convention center to ease the strain  on local hospitals.

 It'll take COVID patients too sick to be  at home but who don't need intensive  care right now as is being accurately  reported in New Orleans that region all  these Jefferson parishes that's the  biggest hot spot that's where we're most  likely to exceed our capacity to deliver  healthcare the soonest and and so that's  where we're working the pandemic is not  only spreading fear it's also awakening  gratitude for those risking their health  for others give us hope I'm now joined by DWS Pablo  Foley Elias Pablo you've had experience  covering this in administration having  only just arrived from being our  correspondent in Washington.

 President  Trump has said that there going to be a  lot of deaths what do you make of that  strategy well it's you know if you  follow a president from quite closely  it's often quite hard to follow him  because his strategy is at times very  difficult to follow  you know and with particularly with this  situation here we've seen him contradict  himself often he's gone against what  actually the health officials have been  saying and often in these long press  conferences that is being holding there  have it's been at times very confusing  for the American public to really see  what the strategy is I think before we  get into any greater detail that we  should really listen to what President  Trump.

President  Trump had to say in his last appearance  in front of the American public so let's  take a look sure this will be probably  the toughest week between this week and  next week and there'll be a lot of death  unfortunately but a lot less depth death  than if this wasn't done but there will  be death we're looking for an obvious  focus and the hardest hit regions some  of them are obvious and some aren't so  obvious they spring up they come and  they they hit you like you got hit by a  club I mean you know it's it's very  strong what he's saying there you know  he's warning Americans that you know  there are gonna be a lot of deaths that  what they should expect this in the  coming days and weeks and but also one  thing that's quite interesting from  President Trump.

 Is that the economy  which is very important for President  Trump and let's not forget has been sort  of always present in when he's been  speaking to the public and he sort of  even said in the press conference that  he wants Americans essentially to get  back to work as soon as possible but of  course we know that this is not going to  end in the next few days or weeks  and that's also a message that's being  sent out to people it's confusing as  well and he's saying to people as well  to use a malaria drug which you know his  health officials have been saying hang  on this is all anecdotal let's not be  using this also he's been saying he's  not going to use a mask himself even  though saying  that it is actually.

Something that's you  know good for people to use so very  confusing very hard to follow really  what the strategy is in the meantime of  course in the United States is a lot of  talk about there not being some sort of  federal guideline about how to approach  this coronavirus the the the federal  government leaving it up to the States  how are Trump's actions his behavior  during this affecting the strategy of  individual states well like I was saying  it's very hard to follow the strategy  and it's you know if you look at some  states which are in particularly in the  southern states.

Republican states will  say I'm just gonna name a few of them  Alabama Arkansas Mississippi three  states which you know our relatives are  very poor compared to other states such  as New York and Washington state in  California New York obviously has huge  numbers of infections and you know these  are areas which are being very lacks  about this and and you know there's been  a lot of criticism saying why are you  taking this approach they haven't really  have forced people to make take any  serious measures and could it be because  of President Trump .