President Trump on Saturday declared gains made versus the coronavirus pandemic and the relatively low mortality rate in the U.S. compared to other hard-hit countries.
” While we mourn the terrible death– and you can’t mourn it any stronger than we are grieving it– the United States has actually produced significantly better health results than any other country with the possible exception of Germany,” Mr. Trump stated at the daily briefing at the White House.
He stated the high death toll in the U.S., which has most coronavirus deaths worldwide at more than 37,000, might be credited to the big U.S. population.
The U.S. population of about 328 million is four or five times larger than a lot of European nations.
Of the 10 nations with the most COVID-19 deaths, the U.S. has the 2nd lowest death rate at 5.3%per 100 reported cases, according to an analysis by Johns Hopkins University.
Just Germany had a lower rate at 3.1%amongst the 10 nations in the study.
Belgium, the U.K., Italy, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Iran and China had higher death rates.
Belgium had the highest mortality rate per 100 cases of 14.3%. The U.K., Italy, France, the Netherlands and Spain each had double-digit mortality rates.
Spain, with more than 20,000 deaths, had a mortality rate of 10.5%– nearly double the rate in the U.S.
Mr. Trump stated the news media has actually neglected the successes of the U.S. effort against COVID-19, which included an almost complete shutdown of the economy and enormous stimulus costs to sustain Americans living under stay-at-home orders.
” However you don’t hear that. You hear that we have more death. We are a much bigger country than any of those nations, by far,” said Mr. Trump. “So, when the fake news goes out there and starts speaking about the United States has more– however we’re not number one.”
He also questioned the death toll reported by China, where the infection began. The information shows China with a mortality rate of 5.5%per 100,000, according to the JHU study.
” They are way ahead of us in terms of death. It’s not even close,” he told the reporters at the rundown. “You know it. I know it. They know it. You do not want to report it. Why? You’ll have to discuss that.”
