Coronavirus government response updates: Trump blames WHO, announces funding halt

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President Trump: “The scariest day of my life was about a month ago when after a long day of meetings, my team told me that we were going to be needing 130,000 ventilators — that we were short hundreds of thousands of ventilators.”

Trump said he would speak to all governors before announcing second 'council' or 'committee' on reopening country

Fauci clarifies Sunday show comments, Trump calls him a 'wonderful guy' after retweeting hashtag that called for him to be firedPresident Donald Trump speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House on April 14, 2020, in Washington. "Large sections of our country are really looking at other sections and saying, wow, that looks bad, but they don't have the problem," he said.

"I'm instructing my administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted to assess the world health organization's role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus," Trump said in an extended diatribe, arguing the the organization was against his travel ban to China.

"We have to have something in place that is efficient and that we can rely on, and we're not there yet," Fauci told The AP.

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