President Trump said he thinks the country is “in a good place” with the pandemic, adding he disagrees with Dr. Anthony Fauci’s assessment that the country is still “knee-deep” in a first wave of Covid-19.
“Well, I think we are in a good place. I disagree with him,” Trump told Gray Television’s Greta Van Susteren, according to a transcript of the interview released Tuesday. “Dr. Fauci said don’t wear masks and now he says wear them. And he said numerous things. Don’t close off China. Don’t ban China. I did it anyway. I didn’t listen to my experts and I banned China. We would have been in much worse shape.”
“We’ve done a good job,” Trump said. “I think we are going to be in two, three, four weeks, by the time we next speak, I think we’re going to be in very good shape.”
The President went on to say there were virus spikes in “some areas that looked like we were going to escape, that they were going to escape, and all of a sudden it became hot.”
“But I think you’re going to see with all of the things that we’re doing, and with all of the therapeutics that are coming out, and then ultimately the vaccine, we’re going to be in very good shape very soon,” he said.
Some background: Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said Monday the status of the coronavirus pandemic in the US is “really not good” as new cases surge across the country.
“We are still knee-deep in the first wave of this. And I would say, this would not be considered a wave. It was a surge, or a resurgence of infections superimposed upon a baseline,” Fauci said in Facebook Live interview with National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins.
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