60% of Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of coronavirus pandemic: Poll
The majority of Americans disapprove of the response to the coronavirus pandemic by US President Donald Trump, according to a new poll.
The new poll released this weekend showed three out of five people -- 60 percent -- of the respondents disapproved Trump's response to the crisis.
The Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted between July 12 and 15 showed that Trump's disapproval rate had risen 15 percent, up from 45 percent in March.
The poll, which surveyed a random national sample of 1,006 adults and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points, came as record numbers of one-day jumps in coronavirus cases were being reported across the country.
Trump, who is in favor of reopening the country, has been contradicting recommendations of health experts who have continuously warned against doing so prematurely.
In an article published in The Washington Post on Tuesday, four former directors of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Trump had politicized science in ways never adopted by any president. Tom Frieden, Jeffrey Koplan, David Satcher and Richard Besser said that public health experts had to fight the dual opponents of COVID-19 and "political leaders and others attempting to undermine" the CDC.
They slammed Trump for his "repeated efforts to subvert sound public health guidelines introduce chaos and uncertainty while unnecessarily putting lives at risk."
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan complained that waiting for Trump to do anything to contain the surging pandemic was a "hopeless" task. "I'd watched as the president downplayed the outbreak's severity and as the White House failed to issue public warnings, draw up a 50-state strategy, or dispatch medical gear or lifesaving ventilators from the national stockpile to American hospitals," Hogan, who is a Republican, wrote in an article on Thursday also for The Washington Post.
"Eventually, it was clear that waiting around for the president to run the nation's response was hopeless; if we delayed any longer, we'd be condemning more of our citizens to suffering and death," he wrote,
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