President Donald Trump said that the impressive number of deaths in the United States attributable to the coronavirus is what it is in a new interview, once again crediting his management for their reaction despite the ongoing outbreak of new instances and a human cost. until now. surpasses that of any other nation.
Faced with the death toll in the United States and Trump’s message about the pandemic in an interview with Axios on HBO that aired Monday night, the president became defensive and gave the impression of being frustrated by Jonathan Swan’s questions about the crisis.
“I went to your rallies. I talked to your other friends. They love you. They’re paying attention. Pay attention to each and every word you say. They cling to each and every word you say. Swan said. ” And then, when they listen to you, you say, “each and every one and everything is under control. Don’t worry about dressing up as masks,” I mean, it’s other people, a lot of them are old. “
“Well, what’s your definition of control?” replied Trump, 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 strongly. “But that doesn’t mean we’re not doing everything we can. It’s below everything you can. “
Trump has regularly defended his administration’s functionality against the pandemic, but rarely expresses his pain for the victims. When the United States surpassed the 100,000 deaths shown last May, after weeks in which Trump projected a toll below that mark, the president refused to go public until the next day, tweeting about the victims amid a morning tweet of insults and grievances.
Highlighting the number of deaths in the United States in Axios’ interview, Trump continually noted the proportion of deaths due to shown cases of coronavirus, that the proportion of deaths relative to the U. S. population, a probably more indicative figure of the state of the pandemic in the country given that the United States has less than 5% of the world’s population. Still fix about 25% of global deaths due to Covid-19.
“Well, here America is the lowest in many categories. We’re inferior to the world, we’re inferior to Europe,” Trump said, sorting chart pages and handing one over to Swan. “Take a look, here — the death of cases.
“Oh, you make death in proportion to the cases. I’m talking about death as a proportion of the population. That’s where America is wrong,” Swan said.
“You can’t do that . . . you have to go through the cases. Deaths,” Trump argued.
“It is an applicable statistic to say whether the United States has X population and X percentage of deaths of that population, compared to South Korea,” Swan later told, to which Trump replied, “No, because you have to depend on the cases. “”
Instead, white house Coronavirus working group officials warned that the pandemic is getting worse in the United States. On Sunday, Dr. Deborah Birx, the group’s reaction coordinator, said the United States 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 compound forecast from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. U. S. , which is an average of nearly 1,000, deaths in the U. S. Every day for the next 30 days.
For comparison purposes, maximum public fitness experts prefer rates, 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 by the number of cases, and consistent with the general population.
According to Swan’s measure, the expansion of the mortality rate remains on the upward 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 since then, according to It is not true that “cases must be eded” , as Trump claimed, but doing so in this case allows the president and the White House their narrative that the virus is “under control. “
When you use the mortality rate, or “death case,” as Trump called it, to describe the severity of the effect of a virus like Covid-19 on a country, it’s worth noting that a higher verification rate leads to minimal mortality. and the United States has particularly higher control since its 1st case rate peaked in March. Data on deaths as a total also have a tendency to be delayed, so they do not reflect the existing situation.
In a call with the governors monday afternoon, Birx noted this and said, “We’re probably seeing a steady increase in mortality over the next two weeks, and I think it’s vital for other states. that fall into this category do not allow your citizens to be discouraged from seeing progress, because you see progress, it is only that the total site takes about 6 to 8 weeks to get through this positivity by building upd tests, building upd instances and building upd mortality.
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