How can anyone believe Trump knows what he's doing on #COVID19 and his comparing economic losses to expected total of American deaths when he makes GLARING ERRORS like this.
Trump interrupted to make this 50-50 point and it's FALSE.
Truth (via CDC): 1918 fatality rate was 2-3%
Trump interrupted to make this 50-50 point and it's FALSE.
Truth (via CDC): 1918 fatality rate was 2-3%
2. Trump is flat wrong, indicates doesn't get magnitude of likely #coronavirus toll
"You can't compare this to 1918 where close to a hundred million people died. That was a flu...where if you got it you had a fifty-fifty chance of or very close of dying."
"You can't compare this to 1918 where close to a hundred million people died. That was a flu...where if you got it you had a fifty-fifty chance of or very close of dying."
3. CDC article on 1918 flu:
"Case-fatality rates were >2.5%"
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12…
Stanford:
"was so severe that the average life span in the US was depressed by 10 years. The influenza virus had a profound virulence, with a mortality rate at 2.5%"
virus.stanford.edu/uda/
"Case-fatality rates were >2.5%"
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12…
Stanford:
"was so severe that the average life span in the US was depressed by 10 years. The influenza virus had a profound virulence, with a mortality rate at 2.5%"
virus.stanford.edu/uda/
