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I really want to be the one to smack that smug look off Trumps face!!
He has already been bragging about how his Adm. has reduced the numbers. But he had to up the count to 100,000 yesterday at the pres. conference.
Grim count: US virus toll passes Trumps 60,000 marker
https://apnews.com/6cdbb13291cc0c9a60f1980e74616bbc
By DARLENE SUPERVILLEApril 30, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump likes to talk about the most, the best, the thing that nobody has ever seen.
Now he is trying to make a virtue of a lower number, arguing that the efforts of his administration have warded off a far greater death toll than otherwise would have been seen.
But the reported U.S. death toll on Wednesday crept past 60,000, a figure that Trump in recent weeks had suggested might be the total death count. He had cited the estimate as a sign of relative success after the White House previously warned the U.S. could suffer 100,000 to 240,000 deaths.
I dont think anybodys done a better job -- with testing, with ventilators, with all the things that weve done, Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday. And our death totals numbers per million people are really very, very strong. Were very proud of the job weve done.
Trump also has repeatedly used the outer band of any estimate the potential that 2.2 million Americans could have died had there been no interventions to try to make his case most powerfully.
The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 is certain to keep growing from here.
And, like the unemployment rate, the numbers also will be revised and likely upward, due to underreporting. The focus on death tallies also overlooks other important markers such as immunity levels and infection rates. ...........................
President Donald Trump, followed by Vice President Mike Pence, arrives to speak about reopening the country, during a roundtable with industry executives, in the State Dinning Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 29, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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(51,974 posts)If we had the same death rate as the rest of the world there would be only around 7,300 deaths.
Around 58,000 of the deaths are due to America's response being worse than that if the rest of the world.
Blue Owl
(49,934 posts)Mikey will do it for him...