On the 23rd, President Trump again stated in the presidential debate that the new coronavirus in the United States is disappearing.
Trump said, “The epidemic is coming to an inflection point. The epidemic is going away.” This again sparked widespread disgust among Americans.
Once again, Trump said publicly that the virus is disappearing! Biden retorts to his face that Americans are dying
In light of recent official data on the new coronavirus epidemic in the United States, Trump’s claim is completely false. In terms of new confirmed cases, hospitalizations and positive test rates, the neo-coronavirus epidemic in the United States is getting worse, not better.
Trump’s vague claim that the epidemic in the United States is “reaching an inflection point” is unfounded. In fact, for eight months, Trump has been making unfounded claims that the virus will go away or is disappearing.
In the middle of the debate, Democratic presidential candidate Biden slammed President Trump’s response to the neo-crown virus pandemic in the U.S. Biden accused him of saying, “The virus is going away or is disappearing.
Biden charged, “(Trump) says we’re learning to adapt to it. The truth is, people are ‘learning to die’ from this epidemic.”
Earlier, President Trump also argued that he didn’t say the epidemic would end soon (in fact Trump has said many times over many months that the epidemic would end soon), but that Americans “are learning to adapt to the epidemic. We have no choice.”
Biden retorted, “Can you tell the American people that it’s dangerous right now? How should they respond to this danger? And you you say I’m not responsible.”
Once again, Trump is publicly saying that the virus is going away! Biden retorts to his face that Americans are dying
Currently, 222,000 people in the United States have died from the new coronavirus. According to data from Johns Hopkins University, the United States leads the world in the total number of confirmed cases of new coronavirus, with more than 8.4 million people infected since the beginning of the epidemic. India, Brazil and Russia are close behind.
In fact, on October 10, U.S. President Donald Trump stood on the White House balcony and spoke about the new coronavirus: “It’s going away. It’s going away.” This is consistent with what Trump has been saying for eight months.
At last count, the president has announced at least 38 times since February that the new coronavirus will be gone or is going away.
In February, when Trump first made that statement, the United States had just seen its first case of neo-coronavirus death. After more than 220,000 deaths, Trump continued to erroneously claim that the virus would somehow go away – despite the fact that the U.S. experienced another spike in cases and hospitalizations that wasn’t even considered a second wave of the epidemic, as the U.S. never contained the first wave.
During the debate, Trump said of the death toll from the new coronavirus in the U.S.: “You know, according to the models, 2.2 million people are expected to die.” That was the first thing he said in the debate, however it was wrong.
Again, Trump publicly said that the virus is going away! Biden retorts to his face that Americans are dying
Such extreme predicted numbers would only become true if the U.S. did nothing to fight the epidemic, and fortunately President Trump has no control over all U.S. affairs, and many state governments have taken steps to fight the new coronavirus, with state governments playing a key role in local health care. Therefore, it is very incorrect for Trump to claim as his achievement that not more than 2 million Americans died.
Trump often cites this figure in order to show that he is now “responsible” for the deaths of more than 200,000 people in the United States, and to take credit for lowering the death rate.
The obvious fact is that at a news conference on April 1, Trump and his officials talked about projections of actual deaths of 100,000 to 240,000, and President Trump claimed at the time that he wanted to keep the death toll under 100,000. He said, “I think we’re doing better.”
However, as the death toll in the U.S. continued to rise, Trump repeatedly changed the number that he was talking about, ending up saying, “I’m responsible for the fact that no 2.2 million Americans died.”
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