White House Reception to Honor Gold Star Families President Donald J. Trump listens as songs are sung at a remembrance candle lighting during a reception to honor Gold Star Families Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020, in the East Room of the White House.
In December 2019, an outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first identified in Wuhan, China, spreading worldwide within weeks. The first confirmed case in the United States was reported on January 20, outbreak was officially declared a public health emergency on January 31, 2020.[688] Trump told Bob Woodward in February 2020 that COVID-19 was "deadly" and "tricky" to handle because of airborne transmission; at the same time, Trump was publicly suggesting that flu was more dangerous than COVID-19 and had asserted that the outbreak in the was "very much under control" and would soon be over. Trump privately told Woodward in March 2020: "I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic." Trump's comments to Woodward were publicized in September A Cornell University study concluded that Trump was the "likely the largest driver" of COVID-19 misinformation in the first five months of 2020.
Size: 2200px × 1467px
Location: The White House, Washington, DC
Photo credit: © American Photo Archive / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
Keywords: 19, agreement, anti, conoly, contageous, covid, crowd, crowded, disclosure, disease, doctor, donald, east, emergency, families, family, gold, health, house, ill, illness, infect, infected, infection, liar, lie, mask, maskless, medical, military, nda, president, presidential, reed, room, science, sean, spread, spreader, star, super, trump, unhealthy, walter, white
