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I remember TDS running wild in response to this nonsense. Is this really a bad opinion in hindsight?

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/486068-trump-disputes-whos-34-global-death-rate-for-coronavirus

It's fun to go over the comment section as well.


President Trump on Wednesday disputed the death rate of the coronavirus as reported by the World Health Organization (WHO), calling the 3.4 percent figure “really a false number.”

"I think the 3.4 percent is really a false number,” Trump told Fox News’s Sean Hannity in a phone interview Wednesday evening when asked for his reaction to the death rate reported earlier this week. “Now, this is just a hunch, but based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this."

“A lot of people will have this and it's very mild. They'll get better very rapidly. They don't even see a doctor. They don't even call a doctor. You never hear about those people,” Trump continued, asserting that those cases could not be included in the overall count of people who have contracted the coronavirus, which he at one point incorrectly identified as the “corona flu” before correcting himself.

“Personally, I think the number is way under 1 percent,” Trump continued.