Continuing to show on Monday an unrivaled level of accessibility among U.S. presidents, President Trump took questions for nearly 42 minutes during a maternal health event and, while most concerned Iran, a USA Today reporter had questions at two different points about the U.S. response to the spread of the hantavirus, tying it to the Trump administration’s departure from the World Health Organization (WHO) and arguing it’s left the world more dangerous.
USA Today’s Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy delivered the first set of missives right at noon Eastern, wondering what Trump made of “the handling of the hantavirus by the U.S.” and this outbreak of this deadly virus aboard a cruise ship made him “regret withdrawing from the WHO.”
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