{"id":143075,"date":"2020-05-06T15:56:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T13:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/05\/06\/us-coronavirus-live-trump-says-taskforce-to-continue-indefinitely-after-backlash-live\/"},"modified":"2020-05-06T15:56:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T13:56:21","slug":"us-coronavirus-live-trump-says-taskforce-to-continue-indefinitely-after-backlash-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=143075","title":{"rendered":"US coronavirus live: Trump says taskforce to continue &#039;indefinitely&#039; after backlash \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New cases of Covid-19 rising steeply in Minnesota, Nebraska and Puerto Rico as government focuses on reopening economyCoronavirus \u2013 latest global updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage 2.56pm BST The White House\u2019s discussions about winding down the coronavirus task force are a reflection of how Trump is trying to shift the focus to reopening the US economy, even as the country\u2019s coronavirus death toll continues to climb.Hours after the US death toll surpassed 70,000 yesterday, the president said of the country reopening, \u201cWill some people be affected? Yes. Will some people be affected badly? Yes. But we have to get our country open, and we have to get it open soon.\u201d 2.36pm BST Dr Anthony Fauci, the government\u2019s top infectious disease expert, initially denied reports that the White House was looking to wind down its coronavirus task force.\u201cThat\u2019s not true,\u201d Fauci initially said yesterday. \u201cI\u2019ve been in every task force meeting, and that\u2019s not what they are doing.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/may\/06\/us-coronavirus-live-trump-taskforce-fauci-reopening-latest-news-updates\" target=\"_blank\">US coronavirus live: Trump says taskforce to continue &#039;indefinitely&#039; after backlash \u2013 live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New cases of Covid-19 rising steeply in Minnesota, Nebraska and Puerto Rico as government focuses on reopening economyCoronavirus \u2013 latest global updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage 2.56pm BST The White House\u2019s discussions about winding down the coronavirus task force are a reflection of how Trump is trying to shift the [&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-143075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143075","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=143075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}