Trump’s Misleading COVID-19 Comparisons to Other Countries

Posted on AllSides August 5th, 2020
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In a flurry of tweets and remarks, President Donald Trump continued to distort the facts on the coronavirus pandemic:

In a series of comments focused on the surging number of COVID-19 cases elsewhere in the world, Trump left the misleading impression that the U.S. is doing better than several countries seeing recent upticks in cases. But nearly all of the nations he mentioned still have fewer new daily per capita cases than the U.S.

The president said Dr. Anthony Fauci, a coronavirus task force member, was “wrong” that Europe was...

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