President Trump and congressional Democrats are haggling over the size of the next bill designed to help Americans through the coronavirus crisis while many of them cannot work.
Response coordinator for White House Coronavirus Task Force Dr. Deborah Birx speaks as President Trump and Vice President Trump listen at Wednesday's briefing.Response coordinator for White House Coronavirus Task Force Dr. Deborah Birx speaks as President Trump and Vice President Trump listen at Wednesday's briefing.
The big questions now, however, are how much Washington may add to the trillions of dollars it has authorized and when Americans may be able to get that cash in hand. Dr. Deborah Birx, a top physician coordinating the pandemic response, said on Wednesday that she hopes that rather than a peak of 100,000 deaths or more, social distancing and other countermeasures may bring a total closer to around 60,000.
Even as the daily death toll from the pandemic continues to mount and the number of cases appears to stabilize in some places, Birx and her colleagues said they believe the mitigation is working and so the nation must keep it up."What has been so remarkable to those of us in the scientific field for so long is how important behavioral change is — and how amazing Americans are in adapting to and following through on these behavior changes," Birx said.
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