Coronavirus: Donald Trump Continues To Ignore Current COVID-19 Crisis; Predicts Great Economic Rebound

U.S. President Donald Trump is oddly hopeful about the fourth quarter of the year and has predicted a great economic rebound in the fall.

Trump addressed a news conference that shed light on ways to aid small businesses Tuesday, April 28 as he foresaw great days ahead for the U.S. and claimed that the country is well on its way to perform 5 million coronavirus diagnostic cases a day. The statement comes soon after the number of cases in the COVID-19 outbreak crossed a million.

“We’re going to be there very soon,” said Trump during the news conference, hinting at how 5 million daily tests could be a reality soon. The President was unaware of the current figures which amount to 200,000 a day, as while the U.S. has carried out 5.6 million tests in the past two months—a figure that exceeded the testing percent in most countries—but was still far away from inching towards the daily 5 million testing mark.

Medical experts are divided on whether the daily testing capacity should be increased to 5 million tests a day by June or 20 million tests.

Trump also seemed to appear unrealistically confident about the country’s economic recovery in the fall, followed by the mysterious disappearance of the pandemic. “I think what happens is it’s going to go away. This is going to go,” Trump said at the news conference. “And whether it comes back in a modified form in the fall, we’ll be able to handle it. We’ll be able to put out spurts, and we’re very prepared to handle it,” he added.

This wasn’t a first of sorts, as Trump made a rather strange prediction at the onset of the pandemic when the U.S. recorded only 15 confirmed cases. Back then, in February, Trump enthused that the numbers would be down to zero, in a couple of days.

Despite things having gone a downward spiral with the numbers currently having crossed the grim 1 million mark, Trump seemed convinced that his predictions would “ultimately be true.” “At the appropriate time it will be down to zero like we said,” he urged at the news conference.

With the U.S. currently being one of the hardest-hit countries in the coronavirus outbreak, several experts attribute the ghastly scenario to the leaders and prominent personalities downplaying the severity of the pandemic in its initial stages.

It is believed that on Jan. 29, Alex Azar, Trump’s health and human services secretary, misinformed the president by assuring that highly contagious virus was under control in the U.S.