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Trump is misinforming
I hesitate to even print the United States president's words here, because they're so at odds with what health experts are saying. But the president's statements to Sean Hannity are significant because millions of people were watching live.
In a phoner with Hannity on Wednesday night, Trump reacted to the World Health Organization's data-driven assessment of the global death rate for the novel coronavirus — 3.4% — by saying "I think the 3.4% is really a false number."
"Now, this is just my hunch," Trump said, which should have spurred Hannity to interrupt, but he didn't, so Trump continued, "based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this, because 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, so you can't put them down in the category of the overall population, in terms of this corona flu, and/or virus. So you just can't do that."
Trump continued by discarding his own administration's advice to stay home if you're feeling sick: "If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better, just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work, some of them go to work, but they get better, and then when you do have a death, like you've had in the state of Washington, like you had one in California, I believe you had one in New York." No deaths have been reported in New York.
"You know," Trump said, "all of a sudden it seems like 3 or 4%, which is a very high number, as opposed to a fraction of 1%. But again, they don't know about the easy cases because the easy cases don't go to the hospital. They don't report to doctors or the hospital in many cases. So I think that that number is very high. I think the number, personally, I would say the number is way under 1%." Hannity televised Trump's irresponsible "hunch" to the world...
Ignorance on display
Trump went on to reiterate his ignorance about the seasonal flu. He made remarks to this effect last week, but I'm surprised he's still saying it, since his aides surely cautioned him not to admit that he didn't know about the fatal nature of the flu. "With the regular flu, we average from 27,000 to 77,000 deaths a year. Who would think that? I never knew that until six or eight weeks ago," Trump told Hannity...
>> Also on Wednesday: "Trump falsely claimed that Obama administration slowed down diagnostic testing, experts say..."
>> Big picture from the NYT: "He has dealt with the coronavirus, the first external crisis of his administration, by repeating a string of falsehoods rather than delivering reassurance..."
"Coronavirus tests Trump's credibility gap"
That's the headline on John Harwood's latest for CNN. He quoted historian Max Skidmore, author of "Presidents, Pandemics and Politics," who said Trump's aversion to facts and expertise make him "totally incompetent" for the coronavirus challenge...
" we need truth" and "we need testing"
Chris Hayes on MSNBC Wednesday night: "We need truth. We need the facts. We need testing. And we need them now. We needed them a week ago. And Donald Trump should take the next month off and golf, while someone else handles it."
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I hesitate to even print the United States president's words here, because they're so at odds with what health experts are saying. But the president's statements to Sean Hannity are significant because millions of people were watching live.
In a phoner with Hannity on Wednesday night, Trump reacted to the World Health Organization's data-driven assessment of the global death rate for the novel coronavirus — 3.4% — by saying "I think the 3.4% is really a false number."
"Now, this is just my hunch," Trump said, which should have spurred Hannity to interrupt, but he didn't, so Trump continued, "based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this, because 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, so you can't put them down in the category of the overall population, in terms of this corona flu, and/or virus. So you just can't do that."
Trump continued by discarding his own administration's advice to stay home if you're feeling sick: "If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better, just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work, some of them go to work, but they get better, and then when you do have a death, like you've had in the state of Washington, like you had one in California, I believe you had one in New York." No deaths have been reported in New York.
"You know," Trump said, "all of a sudden it seems like 3 or 4%, which is a very high number, as opposed to a fraction of 1%. But again, they don't know about the easy cases because the easy cases don't go to the hospital. They don't report to doctors or the hospital in many cases. So I think that that number is very high. I think the number, personally, I would say the number is way under 1%." Hannity televised Trump's irresponsible "hunch" to the world...
Ignorance on display
Trump went on to reiterate his ignorance about the seasonal flu. He made remarks to this effect last week, but I'm surprised he's still saying it, since his aides surely cautioned him not to admit that he didn't know about the fatal nature of the flu. "With the regular flu, we average from 27,000 to 77,000 deaths a year. Who would think that? I never knew that until six or eight weeks ago," Trump told Hannity...
>> Also on Wednesday: "Trump falsely claimed that Obama administration slowed down diagnostic testing, experts say..."
>> Big picture from the NYT: "He has dealt with the coronavirus, the first external crisis of his administration, by repeating a string of falsehoods rather than delivering reassurance..."
"Coronavirus tests Trump's credibility gap"
That's the headline on John Harwood's latest for CNN. He quoted historian Max Skidmore, author of "Presidents, Pandemics and Politics," who said Trump's aversion to facts and expertise make him "totally incompetent" for the coronavirus challenge...
" we need truth" and "we need testing"
Chris Hayes on MSNBC Wednesday night: "We need truth. We need the facts. We need testing. And we need them now. We needed them a week ago. And Donald Trump should take the next month off and golf, while someone else handles it."
Trump makes spurious claims about coronavirus in phone call with Sean Hannity | CNN Business
In a phoner with Sean Hannity on Wednesday night, President Donald Trump reacted to the World Health Organization's data-driven assessment of the global death rate for the novel coronavirus — 3.4% — by saying "I think the 3.4% is really a false number."
