CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “[L]et me provide an update on the path forward for our country as we continue our war to defeat the China virus [coronavirus]. We’re beginning to see evidence of significant progress. Nationwide, the number of positive cases has declined by nearly 6 percent from the week before, and the positive test rate has also dropped from 8.7 to 8 percent over that same period of time, an encouraging sign — very encouraging, I have to add — that the virus is receding.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 3, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 3, 2020