Trump alleged demonstrators for recent spike of COVID-19 cases in the US

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US President Donald Trump has announced a surge of federal law enforcement into US cities, including Chicago. Trump administration doubles down against Black Lives Matter protests with legally distrustful federal police. US Department of Justice announced that President and US attorney general William Barr are sending federal police to Chicago and Albuquerque (Operation Legend) to help state and local officials fight high levels of violent crime, particularly gun violence. US Attorney General Barr also claimed the violence unrelated to the protests is a direct result of the attack on the police forces and the weakening of police forces. He also blamed protesters for the recent rise in coronavirus infections, in spite of no conclusive evidence pointing protests as a source of new infections.

President Trump falsely claimed a lot of people are saying that children don’t transmit the virus to their families. He is to reopen schools in the fall during widespread unemployment and economic fallout without any clear signal that infections will be under control. Trump pressed on his insistence that schools reopen, potentially unknowingly spreading coronavirus to members of their families at home. He said that school children don’t bring it home with them and don’t catch it easily. It is noteworthy that a recent South Korea study found that school-aged children between ages 10 to 19 are more likely to spread the coronavirus to their household than any other age group.

President also boasted that the nationwide coronavirus positive test rate is coming down fairly rapidly from its peak in April 2020. But cases remain high overall and at least 4 million since the beginning of the outbreak, including 2 million within the last month alone, and at least 70,000 were identified on Wednesday. On Tuesday, he admitted that coronavirus in the United States will get worse before it gets better, a marked departure from his previous insistence that Covid-19 would simply fade away. Trump made the admission in his first briefing on the subject since April. He earlier suggested that injecting disinfectants could help fight infection.