'We could have more sad news, but the American people should know the risk to the average American remains low.' Coronavirusupdate coronavirus MikePence DonaldTrump
Pence and Health Secretary Alex Azar made the rounds of Sunday talk shows with the message that risks from the disease remain low for most Americans while promising to make up for testing shortfalls.
Azar told"Fox News Sunday" the man was in a hospital to which a nursing home, hit by a coronavirus outbreak, had sent patients. Twenty-three other people have been infected in the United States, a man in Chicago being the latest confirmed US case, according to Azar. "It’s a very fair question, and it’s one of the first issues that governors I spoke to raised with me," Pence said when asked on CNN why the US was so far behind other countries in producing testing kits.
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