Sanjay Gupta: Trump Called Coronavirus Outbreak ‘Bad,’ America Should Listen to Him

RUSH EXCERPT:

GUPTA: “I’ve really tried to modulate — I’ve looked at all these models and I’ve tried to modulate, I think, things to present things in a way that I think are digestible. But, look, I think when people listen to the message coming out of the White House today, which, again, was a much more distinctive and different tone, you heard the president say, look, stay home. Look, this is — it’s bad. These are the president’s words after he met with his public health advisers and they really convinced him of what they were seeing here. It’s bad, he said. You know, I think people really need to heed that. Jake, you know, the numbers are — I think it’s hard to really wrap your mind around what the numbers could be. And I don’t — you know, I think maybe it’s not helpful at this point to project what those numbers are. But let me just say this. You know, you’ve heard from many people that 40% to 60% of The Nation could be exposed to this virus. 40% to 60% of Americans. And you’ve heard that the fatality rate of this is 1% to 2%, let’s say, and that might be conservative. You know, it’s hard to know for sure. But overall. I mean, look, you can do the math. And, again, this is — I don’t want to be alarmist. I want to be very careful here how I’m presenting this.”