Trump campaign senior adviser Corey Lewandowski on Sunday pushed back at the suggestion President Donald Trump has failed at his most important job as the nation's leader — to contain the coronavirus.
Asked by “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace if Trump hadn't failed "at his biggest job," Lewandowski touted Trump’s early response to COVID-19, including closing the border to flights from China and in providing personal protection equipment and ventilators to New York City when it was besieged by the virus in March and April.
“Most of the experts were wrong,” Lewandowski said about the severity of the virus and its death rate.
“People will have the opportunity to survive this… the survival rate right now — and I’m not belittling this — is 99.99% if you’re under the age of 50 years old if you get COVID-19 so we have to be careful,” he said.
He also defended the president in the wake of Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that doctors are lining their own pockets by inflating the numbers of COVID-19 deaths.
“I haven’t seen that evidence,” he said of the controversial claim that was promptly denied. “But we have seen on multiple occasions instances where people have claimed that they have died from COVID-19 and that wasn’t the case. … I think we’re categorizing sometimes individuals who may have COVID but aren’t dying from that and claiming it as a COVID death, which is not accurate.”
“We have enormous respect for doctors who are serving the frontline patients and they do an amazing job by and large,” Lewandowski said.
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