8.15 am: Trump also added that “a lot of people don’t want to wear masks and people don’t think masks are good”. When asked which people,...
8.15 am: Trump also added that “a lot of people don’t want to wear masks and people don’t think masks are good”.
When asked which people, he claimed it was waiters. “They come over and they serve you and they have a mask,” he said. “I saw it the other day when they were serving me and they’re playing with the mask. I’m not blaming them. I’m just saying what happens: They’re playing with the mask. So the mask is over, and they’re touching it, and then they’re touching the plate, and that can’t be good.”
8.10 am: United States President Donald Trump has repeated his claims that the coronavirus could disappear over time as people develop a “herd mentality”.
He was possibly referring to herd immunity, which occurs when enough people become immune to a disease to make its spread unlikely. “As a result, the entire community is protected, even those who are not themselves immune,” says the Harvard Medical School website. Herd immunity, it explains, “is usually achieved through vaccination, but it can also occur through natural infection”.
“It would go away without the vaccine but it’s going to go away a lot faster with it,” Trump said on Wednesday, according to AFP. When asked how it would go away by...
