Trump floats his own coronavirus theories on 'Hannity'

Source: Politico | March 5, 2020 | Quint Forgey

The president continued to break with public health officials’ more dire messaging regarding the outbreak.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday night spun a web of theories minimizing the coronavirus’ threat to Americans, accusing the World Health Organization of dispensing inaccurate facts about the outbreak and suggesting that those with the disease would be safe going to work.

During expansive remarks on Fox News host Sean Hannity’s program, the president continued to break with public health officials’ more dire messaging regarding the international crisis and forcefully contradicted the WHO, which earlier in the week pegged the global mortality rate for the coronavirus at 3.4 percent.

“Well, I think the 3.4 percent is really a false number. Now, and this is just my hunch, and — but based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this. Because a lot 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,” Trump said.

“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,” he continued. “So if, you know, 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.”

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“When you do have a death — like you had in the state of Washington, like you had one in California, believe you had one in New York — you know, all of a sudden, it seems like 3 or 4 percent, which is a very high number, as opposed to a fraction of 1 percent,” Trump told Hannity. Although 11 cases have been reported in New York, no deaths in the state have been officially attributed to the coronavirus.

“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,” Trump said. “So I think that that number is very high. I think the number, personally, I would say the number is way under 1 percent.”

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  • Consistent March 5, 2020 at 11:30 am #36109

    EVERYDAY March 5, 2020 at 3:50 pm #36113

    Not that I’m a fan of the WHO, but I would believe them before I believe in you and your hunches, Donnie Boy.

    I expect that this virus will not take as high a toll as it has in China and elsewhere, but trivializing it, calling it a “hoax” or whatever is wrong. It is serious.

    Little Donnie should leave matters involving the coronavirus to his Vice President, Mike Pence, and shut the H up about it.

    Consistent March 5, 2020 at 5:46 pm #36119

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