WASHINGTON President Donald Trump on Saturday rejected the criticism that his government was late in responding to the coronavirus pandemic and warned of a big spike in the fatalities from the virus. “There’s going to be a lot of death,” Trump said at a briefing with reporters. He pushed back on criticism that the federal government has not done enough to get ventilators that many critically ill coronavirus patients need to survive to the states, saying some governors are asking for more machines than they will need.Read also: US sets new record with 1,480 virus deaths in 24 hours, global toll rises to 57,000. “Fears of shortages have led to inflated requests,” Trump said of submissions his administration has received to dole out equipment from the strategic national stockpile. The United States has the world’s highest number of known cases of COVID19, the flu-like respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus.
