At a rally yesterday in Florida, Trump said: "We've got to keep our country safe. You look at what's happening in Germany, you look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this?"
The response on Twitter was swift. Former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt responded: "Sweden? Terror attack? What has he been smoking? Questions abound."
And now Chelsea Clinton:
Joe Biden on Thursday returned to his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, to give his first major speech on economic policy since becoming the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee.
Axios Re:Cap digs into Biden's plans, how they developed and how they may change, with former U.S. Commerce secretary and campaign surrogate Penny Pritzker.
Tokyo in the time of coronavirus. Photo: Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty
Many politicians and public health officials sounded a similar lockdown refrain in the spring: let’s do this right so we only have to do it once.
Reality check: While some countries have thus far managed to keep cases under control after opening up, dozens of countries that had initially turned a corner are now seeing a worrying rebound. They have to decide if and how to return to lockdown — and whether their populations will stand for it.
Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios