'More coronavirus cases than anywhere in the world': Biden criticism of Trump ignores Chinese concealment
by Emily Larsen
| April 02, 2020 01:40 PM
Joe Biden ignored suspicions that China concealed the true extent of the coronavirus outbreak when he criticized President Trump by pointing out that the United States has the highest number of reported cases of the virus.
"Donald Trump is not responsible for the coronavirus, but he is responsible for failing to prepare our nation — for the months during which he continually neglected dire warnings from experts and downplayed the threat to us and for the erratic and unacceptably slow federal response that has tragically lagged behind other countries," Biden said in a statement on Thursday following news of a record 6.6 million jobless claims last week.
The former vice president, 77, continued: "Now, we have more coronavirus cases than anywhere in the world, and that is dealing body blows to our economy and to the welfare and well-being of millions upon millions of Americans."
The number of reported coronavirus cases, while widely referenced, is not an end-all-be-all measure of the impact or spread of the pandemic.
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