Schumer Blasts Trump Administration for Hiding COVID Data From Public
Glens Falls, N.Y.— Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today at a press
conference in Glens Falls, NY responded to the Trump administration hiding CDC
data on coronavirus cases from the public:
“This crisis is the worst health crisis we've had in a hundred
years since the Spanish Flu hit America 1919 and 1920. You cannot sweep it
under the rug. You cannot hide the facts. Because President Trump says this is
nothing, ‘it will go away,’ doesn't mean it goes away. And that's one of the
problems. Why is Europe and East Asia doing much better than us? Because they
relied on the science.
“To have the CDC not be able to distribute publicly, the number of
hospitalizations and the number of deaths is going to hurt us in our bid to end
this crisis. Because when you don't know the truth, and you don't go after the
truth, inevitably, you lose out. And I don't know why the White House is saying
they want to hide the numbers, but it makes no sense in terms of fighting this
crisis. If you listen to people like Dr. Fauci and listen to the scientific
experts, we would have been a lot better off than trying to sweep it under the
rug, which is what the president and others try to do.”
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