- You said in an interview this morning on the coronavirus, "This thing is going away. It'll go away like things go away," despite ongoing cases and deaths.
DONALD TRUMP: It's going away.
- Isn't that quite out of touch with reality?
DONALD TRUMP: It's going away. No, it'll go away. Like things go away. Absolutely. It's no question in my mind. It will go away. Please, go ahead.
- Mr. President, you praised--
DONALD TRUMP: Hopefully sooner, rather than later.
I'm talking about from getting very sick. If you look at children, I mean, they're able to throw it off very easily. And it's an amazing thing because some flus, they don't. They get very sick and they have problems with flus, and they have problems with other things. But for whatever reason, the China virus, children handle it very well. And they may-- they may get it, but they get it and it doesn't have much of an impact on them. And if you look at the numbers, the numbers of-- in terms of mortality, fatality, the numbers for children under a certain age, meaning young, their immune systems are very, very strong. They're very powerful and they-- they seem to be able to handle it very well. And that's according to every statistic. Please, go ahead.