President Donald Trump is making sure there's "no amount of money" that will be held back to develop the therapies and vaccines needed to stop coronavirus in the United States, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said Sunday, as masks and shutting down the economy aren't the solution to end the pandemic.
"Obviously we want to do whatever we can do to stop this, and wearing masks when there's not the ability to social distance is one additional thing we can do," Meadows said on ABC News' "This Week," but even in places where there have been mandatory mask provisions, such as in southern Florida, "they continue to see this virus escalate."
"We're not going to have a solution to this," he added. "It's not masks, it's not shutting down the economy, (so) hopefully it is American ingenuity that will allow for therapies and vaccines to ultimately conquer this. That's where the president has made sure there's no amount of money that's held back for meeting those needs."
Meanwhile, more than a million tests are being conducted a day, as the United States is "testing more than any other country in the world," but the focus must be on nursing homes and long-term care facilities when looking to bring down the death count, as the residents there still face the most risks, said Meadows.
"In some of those critical areas like nursing homes and long-term care, our schools, health care providers, and indeed child care, if we can provide those points of consumption and point of tests where literally we're looking at somebody comes in, they can get a very quick test there," said Meadows. "So much of this is asymptomatic...we're finding more cases because we're testing more."
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