WFAN’s Mike Francesa has made no attempt to hide his disdain for how President Donald Trump is handling the coronavirus pandemic.

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On Friday, Francesa added Vice President Mike Pence to the list, and went on Twitter to basically call Trump’s right-hand man a liar.

Pence, who has worked diligently, said on CNBC this morning that there is “little or no risk” to healthy people. That just isn’t true. It isn’t likely, but previously healthy people in their prime are getting very sick.

Whether you agree or disagree with Francesa’s schtick, numbah one is right one with understanding how dangerous - and deadly - COVID-19 is. It’s scary to think that Pence, who is the White House’s point person for the government’s coronavirus response, is being so brazen with underestimating the seriousness of the problem we as a nation face.

On Thursday, the U.S. passed China with the most cases of the coronavirus in the world - almost 90,000.

By mid-day Friday the total was close to 100,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. New York has almost half of the cases in the country, with more than 44,000 infections. More than half of those come from the five boroughs. On top of that, almost 400 people in New York City have died as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

Things aren’t much better on the other side of the river. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced Friday another 2,000 cases of the coronavirus in the Garden State, bringing its total to nearly 9,000, including 108 deaths.

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