{"id":138214,"date":"2020-03-30T15:53:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T13:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/03\/30\/coronavirus-us-live-trump-rants-at-pelosi-and-other-politicians-as-deaths-climb-past-2500\/"},"modified":"2020-03-30T15:53:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T13:53:56","slug":"coronavirus-us-live-trump-rants-at-pelosi-and-other-politicians-as-deaths-climb-past-2500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=138214","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus US live: Trump rants at Pelosi and other politicians as deaths climb past 2,500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US passes 2,500 deaths from Covid-19Fauci suggests US death toll could reach 200,000Virus upends election cycle as officials scramble to protect votersSee all our coronavirus coverageSupport the Guardian\u2019s independent journalism. Make a contribution 2.53pm BST Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin voiced support for providing hazard pay to medical professionals, an idea that Trump also entertained during his \u201cFox and Friends\u201d interview this morning.\u201cI think I agree with the president, I think that makes a lot of sense,\u201d Mnuchin said of the proposal. \u201cWhen we get to the next bill in Congress, that\u2019s definitely something we will put in the next bill.\u201d 2.35pm BST Dr Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, predicted America would see 100,000 to 200,000 deaths linked to the virus.&#8221;If we do things together well &#8230; we could get in the range of 100,000-200,000 fatalities. We don&#8217;t even want to see that.&#8221; -Dr. Birx&#8221;You kind of take my breath away with that because what I hear you saying is that&#8217;s sort of the best case scenario.&#8221; -@savannahguthrie pic.twitter.com\/bridl3WFJQ Related: Trump says keeping US Covid-19 deaths to 100,000 would be a \u2018very good job\u2019 Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2020\/mar\/30\/coronavirus-us-live-updates-donald-trump-deaths-america-new-york-fauci\" target=\"_blank\">Coronavirus US live: Trump rants at Pelosi and other politicians as deaths climb past 2,500<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US passes 2,500 deaths from Covid-19Fauci suggests US death toll could reach 200,000Virus upends election cycle as officials scramble to protect votersSee all our coronavirus coverageSupport the Guardian\u2019s independent journalism. Make a contribution 2.53pm BST Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin voiced support for providing hazard pay to medical professionals, an idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}