Donald Trump complains that people are paying attention to Coronavirus, as the US daily death toll nears 1,000.

US deaths reached 227,685 on Wednesday, a rise of 974 in 24 hours. Confirmed cases are 8,856,689, an increase of 78,009 after a record spike earlier in the week.

But Trump repeated his campaign mantra at rallies and on Twitter yesterday, adding the unsupporting claim that the virus will suddenly diminish:

In Omaha, Nebraska on Tuesday, Trump used his own infection and hospitalization to dismiss any threat: “With the fake news, everything is Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid. I had it. Here I am, right?”

Yesterday in Bullhead, Arizona, he again said that a vaccine will be available “momentarily”, defying the Government’s medical and public health experts — whom Trump has pushed aside in favor of his confidante Dr. Scott Atlas — say that mass distribution will not be possible before mid-2021 at the earliest.

He then repeated his deceptive slogan that the US is “rounding the turn”.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Government’s top Coronavirus expert, told the US TV network CNBC on Wednesday:

This is going to get worse. Bc we’re going more into a colder season….We’ve got to do something different. We can’t just let this happen. We’re going to have many more hospitalizations, and that will inevitably lead to more deaths. So this is an untenable situation.

But Trump dismissed Fauci as a “disaster” last week and called scientists “idiots”. His confidante Atlas, a neuroradiologist and Fox TV commentator with no qualification in epidemiologicy, retweeted the slur that Fauci is lying:

Biden Consults Experts

In a marked contrast, Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden sat for a briefing with health experts on Wednesday.

The former Vice President said afterward:

We discussed importance of wearing masks, protecting yourself, protecting your neighbor, and saving around 100,000 lives in the months ahead.

This is not political. It’s patriotic. Wearing a mask. Wear one, period.

Dr. David Kessler, a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner, said at the briefing:

There’s no doubt, we are in the midst of the third wave. I don’t think anyone can tell you how high this is going to get.

Almost the entire nation is worsening at this point.

As Trump continued his denial of the threat, Biden said, “Even if I win, it’s going to take a lot of hard work to end this pandemic. I’m not running on the false promise of being to end this pandemic by flipping a switch.”

He then assured that, on Day 1 in the White House, he would be “doing the right things. We’ll let science drive our decisions.”