总统唐纳德·特朗普周四宣布他已经告诉共和党全国委员会取消会议活动在佛罗里达州的杰克逊维尔，作为小说的例子冠状病毒在州政府中，说“现在不是时候。”
“我告诉我的团队，是时候取消佛罗里达州杰克逊维尔的共和党大会了，”他在白宫新闻发布会上说，并补充说，大会将在北卡罗莱纳州开始，“一如既往的计划，”数周后取消了那里的大多数大会活动。
早在6月份，特朗普就要求共和党全国委员会在8月份的全国代表大会上，在北卡罗来纳州夏洛特之外，另找一个地方——这在很大程度上是为了避免社会距离和掩盖要求。
周四，特朗普宣布，出于同样的原因，他将取消大会。
他周四说:“因此，代表们将前往北卡罗来纳州，他们将做提名。”
特朗普继续说:“我们还将通过电视集会和网络做一些其他的事情——这一周我们正在讨论，这将是非常好的。”“我仍然会以不同的形式做一个大会演讲，但是我们不会做一个大的、拥挤的大会。”现在还不是时候。”
2020年7月23日，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在白宫的新闻发布会上发表讲话。
数月来，特朗普一直在淡化疫情的严重性——敦促各州重新开放，并抵制模拟社交距离和戴口罩的做法——他表示，自己希望“树立一个榜样”，这一愿望推动了他的决定，同时他也为自己推动学校重新开放辩护。
他在谈到这一重大举措时说:“我们很难说，我们将有很多人挤在一个房间里，然后其他人不应该这样做。”
声明发布后不久，杰克逊维尔市市长莱尼·库里和杜瓦尔县治安官迈克·威廉姆斯发表了一份联合声明，感谢总统“在做出这一极其困难的决定时，考虑到了公众健康和安全问题。”
本周早些时候，威廉姆斯说政客从执法的角度来看，他对《公约》持有担忧。
“这不是我要计划的事情，但我可以告诉你，在我看来，现在提出的建议是无法实现的...从执法的角度来看，从安全的角度来看。”
在周二的新闻发布会上，共和党人库里表示，他同意威廉姆斯的观点。威廉姆斯表示，他担心一个月之后的共和党全国代表大会“现在还无法实现。”
“看，他是县治安官，市执法部门的负责人。他在杰克逊维尔警长办公室工作多年。他很清楚自己在说什么。所以他采取的立场是，我们现在还没有做好准备——是的，我同意他的看法。”
当被问及是否会在白宫发表获奖感言时，特朗普表示将在“未来几天”宣布
关于学校的话题，特朗普表示，疾病控制和预防中心将很快发布重新开放的附加信息，但没有透露疾病控制和预防中心将发布什么细节。
“今天，疾病预防控制中心将提供额外的指导，以安全地重新开放。我希望地方领导把学生的健康和幸福放在第一位，为家长和老师做出正确的决定，而不是做政治决定。”“这是非常非常重要的事情，与政治无关。”
疾控中心发布了备受期待的指导方针不久之后。
该指南主要列出了疾控中心的证据，即儿童不容易得重病，并为返回教室的儿童辩护，引用了对心理健康的担忧和在学校的落后。
他们目前不建议学校对12岁以下的学生进行全面的症状筛查，但鼓励家长或护理人员每天监控其子女的传染病症状。此外，疾病预防控制中心仍然建议孩子们戴口罩，并指出社交距离可以降低风险。
2020年7月23日，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在白宫的新闻发布会上发表讲话。
白宫冠状病毒应对协调员黛博拉·比克斯(Deborah Birx)周三在福克斯新闻(Fox News)上表示，儿童的传染性程度需要进一步研究。与此不同，特朗普继续坚持认为，感染冠状病毒的儿童“通常只有非常轻微的症状，或者根本没有症状，医疗并发症极其罕见。”
但是包括Birx在内的健康专家担心孩子们会把病毒带回家。
哈佛医学院(Harvard Medical School)首席创新官、教授、ABC新闻(ABC News)撰稿人约翰布朗斯坦(John Brownstein)博士说:“即使儿童传播病毒的可能性是成人的一半，但这仍然很重要，因为儿童确实在传播过程中发挥了作用，一旦你让儿童进入他们的自然学校环境，情况就会完全改变。”"你们距离很近，卫生条件差，所以这可能会抵消他们潜在的较小的作用和传播."
他说:“仍有数据支持它们可能是一个家庭中的指数病例。”他强调说，仍有许多东西需要学习。
特朗普在身后展示了一张热点地图，指出了像南部和西部这样的问题地区，以及已经变得“非常干净”的地区，他说，比如东北部。他援引这一点再次表示，重新开放的决定将由州长做出，但他补充说，这些决定应该基于数据和事实，这是一种罕见的让步。
特朗普说:“在目前的热点城市或州，你会在我身后的地图上看到，各区可能需要推迟几周重新开放，这是可能的。”“那就由省长决定了。应该根据每个社区的数据和实际情况作出决定，但每个地区都应该积极准备开放。”
特朗普以乐观的语调结束了他的简短演示，他说:“一切都会解决的。”
Trump cancels Florida portion of GOP convention as coronavirus cases surge: 'Not the right time'
PresidentDonald Trumpannounced Thursday that he's told the Republican National Committee to cancelconvention eventsin Jacksonville, Florida, as cases of the novelcoronavirussurge in the state, saying "it's not the right time."
"I told my team it's time to cancel the Jacksonville, Florida, component of the GOP convention," he said at a White House news conference on the crisis, adding the convention will start in North Carolina, "as has always been planned," weeks after cancelling most convention events there.
Back in June, Trump had demanded the Republican National Committee find another place other than Charlotte, North Carolina, for the August convention -- in large part to avoid social distancing and mask requirements.
On Thursday, Trump announced he's canceling the convention for the same reason.
"So, the delegates are going to North Carolina, and they'll be doing the nomination," he said Thursday.
"And we're going to do some other things with tele-rallies and online -- the week that we are discussing, which will be really good," Trump continued. "I'll still do a convention speech in a different form, but we won't do a big, crowded convention, per se. It's just not the right time for that."
After months of downplaying the severity of the pandemic -- pushing states to reopen and resisting modeling social distancing and mask wearing practices -- Trump said the desire to "set an example" helped drive the decision while he justified his push to reopen schools.
"It's hard for us to say we are going to have a lot of people packed in a room and then other people shouldn't have to do it," he said on the big move.
Moments after the announcement, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry and Duval County Sheriff Mike Williams released a joint statement thanking the president for "considering our public health and safety concerns in making this incredibly difficult decision."
Earlier this week Williams toldPoliticothat he had concerns about the convention being held from a law enforcement standpoint.
"It's not my event to plan, but I can just tell you that what has been proposed, in my opinion, is not achievable right now ... from a law enforcement standpoint, from a security standpoint," he said.
And in a press conference on Tuesday, Curry, a Republican, said he agreed with Williams, who expressed concern that the GOP convention -- one month away -- is "not achievable right now."
"Look, he is the sheriff of the county, head of the city law enforcement. He has many years with the (Jacksonville Sheriff's Office). He knows what he's talking about, clearly. So the position he takes that we're not prepared for this right now -- yes, I agree with him," said the mayor.
Asked if he would give his acceptance speech from the White House, Trump said that it would be announced "over the next few days."
On the topic of schools, Trump said that the additional information about reopening would be released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention soon, but did not go into any detail about what the CDC would issue.
"Today the CDC will provide additional guidance to reopen safely. I hope that local leaders put the full health and well-being of their students first and make the right decision for parents, teachers and not make political decisions," he said. "This is about something very, very important, this is not about politics."
The CDC released the highly anticipatedguidelinesa short time later.
The guidelines mostly lay out CDC evidence that children don't tend to get seriously ill and defends children returning to the classroom, citing concerns with mental health and falling behind in school.
They do not currently recommend schools conduct universal symptom screenings for students in K-12 but encourage parents or caregivers to monitor their children for signs of infectious illness every day. Additionally, the CDC still recommends kids wear masks and notes social distancing can reduce risk.
Unlike White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx, who said Wednesday on Fox News that the extent of how contagious kids are needs more study, Trump continued to insist that children who contract the virus "often have only very mild symptoms or none at all, and medical complications are exceedingly rare."
But health experts, including Birx, are concerned with children bringing the virus home.
"Even if kids are half as likely to transmit the virus compared to adults, even in that setting, it's still important because kids do play a role in transmission, and once you put kids into their natural school setting, that completely changes things," said Dr. John Brownstein, chief innovation officer and professor at Harvard Medical School and an ABC News contributor. "You have close proximity, poor hygiene, so that might offset their potentially lesser role and transmission."
"There's still data to support that they potentially could be index cases in a household," he said, emphasizing that there's still much to learn.
Displaying a map of hot spots behind him, Trump pointed to problems areas like the South and West and areas that have become "very clean," he said, like the Northeast. Citing that, he said again that the reopening decisions will be left up to the governors but added, in a rare concession, that those decisions should based on data and facts.
"In cities or states that are current hot spots -- and you'll see that in the map behind me -- districts may need to delay reopening for a few weeks, and that's possible," Trump said. "That'll be up to governors. The decision should be made based on the data and the facts on the grounds in each community, but every district should be actively making preparations to open."
"It will all work out," Trump said, ending his short demonstration on an upbeat note.
