The President’s senior adviser Jared Kushner on testing, reopening states and the date of the election

You’ve been deeply involved in the pandemic response since mid-March, and on April 29, you called the Administration’s handling of the pandemic a great success story. Now the U.S. has more counted COVID-19 deaths than any other country in the world. How can this possibly be called a success story?

Let’s go back to where we started a couple of months ago when I first got involved and was asked to join the task force. We were seeing the invisible enemy, as the President calls it, starting to head toward the shore.

At the time, the experts and the models predicted that there would be 1.6 to 2.2 million deaths here in America if we weren’t able to do mitigation, and do everything possible to get people the