CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “[W]e are continuing to monitor and monitor, in particular, [coronavirus] hotspots across the South, Southwest, and the West. And we’re seeing indications that our strong mitigation efforts are working very well, actually, especially to protect those who are most at risk, which has really been our primary focus for — ever since we’ve gotten to understand this horrible, horrible plague that’s been unleashed on our country by China.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 4, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 4, 2020