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Trump official: Unclear if RNC can be safely held in Florida:
A top Trump administration health official says it is not clear whether it will be safe to hold the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Jacksonville next month as Florida sees record numbers of coronavirus cases.
The comments on Sunday came a month after Republican officials moved the event from North Carolina over a dispute over health precautions.
Stephen Hahn, the Food and Drug Administration commissioner, also refused to confirm President Donald Trump's claim that 99 percent of coronavirus cases were harmless and called the situation a "serious problem".
With record numbers of people testing positive for the virus in Jacksonville and across Florida, Hahn was asked if it would be safe to hold the typically large RNC gathering in just seven weeks.
On Saturday, Florida reported a new record of nearly 11,500 new coronavirus cases, amid a surge in cases in western and southern states. To date, nearly 130,000 people have died in the US amid 2.83 million cases.
"I think it's too early to tell," Hahn said on CNN's State of the Union programme. "We will have to see how this unfolds in Florida and elsewhere around the country."
The Republican Party in June announced it was moving most of the convention activities to Jacksonville from Charlotte after a battle over coronavirus safety concerns with North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat.
[...] Trump has been known to thrive on large crowds at his campaign rallies and has not embraced masks or social distancing measures at events since the country began reopening from the coronavirus shutdown.
The president has also repeatedly sought to minimise the jump in confirmed cases and claimed without evidence in a July Fourth speech that 99 percent of cases in the United States were "totally harmless".
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bussdriver on Wednesday July 08 2020, @05:16PM (1 child)
1% of 328 million people is 3.28 million people!
Initial estimate was 2 million people if we did NOTHING. So now we are promoting a HIGHER number as being a good thing. WTF is wrong with people? I guess American's do math as well as geography; and I live here but I didn't realize just how gullible people here are.
So when 2 million die, Trump and friends will say it was a success because it's less than 1%.
Keep in mind they have to TREAT people to get high recovery rates and that involves flattening the curve; which should not be a difficult concept but way too many people seem to have missed the whole purpose and thought it was a time out to wait for a vaccine which it never was... and also think a vaccine will happen likely they'll believe the fake or lame one this fall Trump WILL promote is going to do something. He will promote anything this fall reguardless; probably something he has invested heavily in... because he has already done that with something that directly kills people; I believe that had more than a 1% rate of deadly complications (if you weren't constantly monitored.) Please correct me if I'm in error on the death rate of his 1st preventative "cure".
(Score: 3, Funny) by epitaxial on Wednesday July 08 2020, @08:21PM
Americans couldn't understand that a 1/3lb hamburger is bigger than a 1/4lb hamburger. A&W did bad sales numbers over that one.