Trump: Up to 2M people would have died in US without my actions [2020-05-26] 11:30:00 United States President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that, without the measures he had ordered during the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak, up to 2 million people would have died of the disease in the country. He also reiterated his claims that China had been the source of the virus, while once again praising his own decision to ban travel from the People's Republic.