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The governments of the United States and China have engaged in a war of mutual recriminations about the coronavirus. It all started on Monday night, when US President Donald Trump referred in a 'tweet' to the "Chinese virus", a concept used by other senior officials in his government in recent days, such as the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who spoke of the "Wuhan virus" , referring to the Chinese city where the disease was first detected.

But the fact that the expression has been adopted by the head of state and of the US government has raised blisters in Beijing. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang has declared that the US must "immediately cease its unjustified accusations against China," and stated that the Chinese government is "outraged" by the president's words.

Crossing accusations is not new. In fact, last week, Pompeo summoned the Chinese ambassador to Washington, Cui Tiankai, to express his discomfort at the spread, from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, of a conspiracy theory that the virus was brought to Wuhan by a citizen American . "It could be that the United States Army brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make your information public! The United States owes us an explanation," Cui tweeted, who is known on Twitter for his provocative nature.

Tension about the origin of the coronavirus is permeating American political life. According to the press in that country, the Asian community, very large in California, is gathering weapons and ammunition in fear of being victims of racist attacks . Another area with a large eastern community is New York, whose mayor, leftist Bill de Blasio, has criticized Trump for using language he has called "intolerant." The World Health Organization has recommended avoiding the use of geographic or national references to refer to the pandemic.

Be that as it may, Donald Trump is politically vaccinated against the coronavirus . According to a survey by consultancy Morning Consult, 47% of Americans support their management of the crisis, while 43% reject it and 10% accept the traditional "don't know / don't answer". The survey, conducted between the 13th and 16th of this month (from Friday to Monday) reveals a slight improvement in Trump's approval in this crisis . In the previous poll, which had been conducted from March 6 to 9, support for the president's performance was 44%, exactly the same as the rejection. The United States is the eighth country in the world in number of positives (5,204, early yesterday afternoon) and the sixth in deaths (92), according to the real-time count of Johns Hopkins University.

Thus, support for Trump is generally in line with his popularity, which in recent weeks has risen to the highest levels of his mandate . Now, the 'closure' of much of the United States due to the spread of the virus will make it more difficult to conduct surveys. But everything indicates that, at least for the moment, the President of the United States withholds the support of his loyalists, despite the fact that until just a week ago he claimed that the coronavirus was "a farce", and that the people it went to detected improved "sitting at home or going to work". In the past few hours, however, the tone has radically changed. Trump said Monday that "this is bad, this is bad." On Sunday, he had stated that the virus was "under tremendous control."

Americans generally view the coronavirus based on their ideology . Six polls conducted between the end of February and the beginning of March showed that between 62% and 68% of Democrats were "concerned" about the pandemic, while among Republicans the percentage dropped to a band between the 24% and 48%, again in line with Donald Trump's messages.

Covid-19 is having a very direct impact on America's politics. Today, primaries are held in three absolutely decisive states: Florida, Illinois, and Arizona . Although Joe Biden leaves with a huge advantage over Bernie Sanders, the fact that the former vice president's voters are older, and therefore more vulnerable to infection, can reduce his presence in schools. A fourth state, Ohio, has canceled its primaries , also scheduled for today, due to illness.

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