What Was Mentioned“We've got simply concerning the lowest mortality charge.”This lacks proof. It's troublesome to determine correct demise charges
What Was Mentioned
“We’ve got simply concerning the lowest mortality charge.”
This lacks proof. It’s troublesome to determine correct demise charges for the coronavirus and evaluate them throughout international locations due to variations in inhabitants, testing charges and well being care techniques. However primarily based on present information, Mr. Trump’s declare shouldn’t be correct. Out of the 20 international locations most affected by the pandemic, the USA has the sixth-highest case fatality charge at four p.c and the second highest charge of deaths per 100,000 individuals at 41.45, in line with Johns Hopkins College.
What Was Mentioned
“Consider this: If we didn’t do testing — as a substitute of testing over 40 million individuals, if we did half the testing, we’d have half the circumstances. If we did one other — you narrow that in half, you’d have but once more half of that.”
False. The suggestion that the variety of optimistic circumstances is immediately proportional to the variety of checks performed is fake. Ramped-up testing doesn’t account for the current surge in circumstances. The unfold of the illness does.
In early June, the USA was conducting about 450,000 to 500,000 checks each day and the variety of each day optimistic circumstances hovered round 20,000, for a optimistic charge of round four p.c.
This month, each day testing various from about 600,000 to 800,000. By Mr. Trump’s logic, that might roughly correlate to each day optimistic circumstances of between 24,000 and 32,000. However in actuality, the quantity has hovered round 60,000 circumstances in current days because the optimistic testing charge doubled to about eight p.c.
What Was Mentioned
“These are the precise key components of the Biden-Sanders unity platform.”
That is exaggerated. Mr. Trump was referring to suggestions put forth by six coverage process forces assembled by each allies of Mr. Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, his rival within the Democratic main. A few of his claims — corresponding to saying Mr. Biden needs to succeed in carbon-neutrality, enhance the refugee admissions cap, create a pathway for citizenship for undocumented immigrants and abolish the demise penalty — had been correct. However many others had been dramatized.
The suggestions embody a 100-day moratorium on deportations of individuals already in the USA — not stopping “all deportations” indefinitely, as Mr. Trump mentioned.