President Donald Trump expressed confidence that the coronavirus won’t hit the US with the same intensity if it returns in the fall, suggesting the deadly disease “might not come back at all." Trump’s assertion Wednesday at a White House briefing is at odds with medical experts who say the virus could pose a threat to the US for months and years to come.
He made the comment after accusing the Washington Post of mischaracterizing a warning to that effect from Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “We’re going to be watching for it.
But it’s also possible it doesn’t come back at all," Trump said. If COVID-19 does return, it “won’t be coming back in the form that it was" but in “smaller doses we can