CNN’s Erica Hill reports that Covid-19-related deaths are in 27 states as President Donald Trump continues to claim that the virus is under control.
President Donald Trump said America’s terrible record for coronavirus “is what it is” in a new interview, giving credit to his management for his reaction despite the outbreak of new cases and a human cost far exceeding that of any other nation.
In the face of the death toll in the United States and Trump’s message about the pandemic in an interview with HBO’s Axios broadcast Monday night, the president was on the defensive and appeared frustrated by Jonathan Swan’s questions about the crisis.
“I went to your rallies. I’ve spoken to your other friends. They love you. They’re paying attention. They pay attention to each and every word you say. They cling to every single word you say. Swan said. “And so, when they hear you, you say “each and every element is under control.” Don’t worry about being dressed in masks, “I mean, they’re other people, a lot of them are old.”
“Well, what’s your definition of control?” Trump responded, adding, “I think it’s under control.”
I said, “How? A thousand Americans die every day,” Swan said.
“They die. It’s true. And you — that’s what it is,” Trump said emphatically. “But that doesn’t mean we’re not doing everything we can. It’s below as much as it can.”
Trump has regularly defended his administration’s functionality against the pandemic, but rarely expresses his grief for victims. When the United States surpassed the 100,000 deaths shown last May, after weeks in which Trump projected a death toll well below that mark, the president refused to go public until the next day, tweeting about the victims amid a morning tweet of insults. Grievances.
When pressured on the number of deaths in the United States in Axios’ interview, Trump continually pointed to the proportion of deaths similar to shown cases of coronavirus, which the proportion of deaths relative to the U.S. population, a figure that is arguably more indicative of the state of the pandemic in the country since the United States has less than 5% of the world’s population. Fix about 25% of global deaths due to Covid-19.
“Well, here, America is the lowest in many categories. We are inferior to the world, we are inferior to Europe,” Trump said, ordering chart pages and handing one to Swan. “Take a look, here — the case of death.”
“Oh, you die in proportion to the cases. I mean death as a proportion of the population. That’s where America is wrong,” Swan said.
“You can’t do thatArray … you have to go through the cases. Deaths,” Trump argued.
“It’s an applicable statistic to say whether the U.S. has X population and X deaths in that population, compared to South Korea,” Swan later said, to which Trump replied, “No, because you have to go through the cases. “
Instead, officials from the White House Coronavirus Working Group have warned that the pandemic is worsening in the United States. On Sunday, Dr. Deborah Birx, the group’s reaction coordinator, said the United States is in a new phase of the pandemic where the virus is “extremely widespread.” Trump responded Monday, calling Birx “pathetic.”
More than 155,000 Americans are known to have died from the virus, and the death toll is expected to be 173,000 through August 22, according to a new prognosis composed of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s an average of about 1,000 deaths in the United States each day over the next 30 days.
For comparison purposes, top public fitness experts prefer fees, not counts. The measures Swan and the president discussed are two of the most popular: the fatality rate, which measures the number of deaths divided between the number of cases, and the rate consistent with the general population.
According to Swan’s measure, the expansion of the mortality rate remains upward in trend, while according to the measure cited through Trump, the mortality rate decreased between June 17 and July 26 from 5.47% to 3.47%, where it has fluctuated ever since, according to data. Johns Hopkins University. It is not true that “you have to accept as certain cases,” as Trump said, but doing so in this case allows the president and the White House to contribute to their narrative that the virus is “under control.”
When using the mortality rate, or “death case,” as Trump called it, to describe the severity of the effect of a virus like Covid-19 in a country, it is worth noting that a higher verification rate leads to a small mortality rate. and the United States has been particularly in control since its first case case rate peaked in March. Knowledge of death in general also has a tendency to be delayed, so it does not reflect the existing situation.
In a call with the governors Monday afternoon, Birx pointed it out and said, “We’re probably seeing a steady increase in mortality over the next two weeks, and I think it’s vital that other states that fall into this category don’t allow their citizens to be discouraged from seeing any progress, because you see progress. Array is only that the total site takes about 6 to 8 weeks to get through this building the positivity of testing, instance expansion and mortality expansion.”
Stephen Collinson, Christina Maxouris, Holly Yan and Dakin Andone of CNN contributed to this report.
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