“With that being said, we’re going to work with the states,” Trump told reporters. “They can’t do anything without the approval of the president of the United States,” Trump went on. “When somebody is the president of the United Sates, the authority is total, and that’s the way it’s going to be. The United States, with the world’s third-largest population by country, has recorded greater loss of life from COVID-19 than any other nation. The university’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation said higher death tolls now projected in Massachusetts and New York state accounted for part of the upward revision.

Source: National Post April 14, 2020 13:41 UTC