HHS Secretary Alex Azar claimed that “rapid work” is underway on a possible vaccine that “should go to clinical trials very soon” while a therapeutic treatment is already in clinical trials
And early Monday afternoon the World Health Organization warned that despite the outbreak not yet reaching the level of a pandemic, such a threat remains “very real,” though the organization’s director general added that “it would be the first pandemic in history that could be controlled.”
That dip, Trump argued, "and the Fake News, is the reason for the market drop!" Still, he maintained, the drop in oil prices is "Good for the consumer, gasoline prices coming down!"to minimize the severity of the outbreak came moments after his Health and Human Services secretary declared on TV that “nobody is trying to minimize” what he called “a very serious public health threat.
While he said he hadn't spoken to the president about the plunging stock market, he sought to calm fears of a wider economic fallout from the virus' spread.
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