Chinese President Xi Jinping has postponed a much-anticipated state visit to Japan, which had been set for April, to focus on the coronavirus outbreak
Trump makes spurious claims about coronavirus in phone call with Fox News host Sean HannityPresident Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House on March 3. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Every day, there's a growing global death toll. In the United States the coronavirus resembles a drumbeat in the distance: If you're distracted, you may not hear it. Or maybe just once in a while. But if you listen carefully, you can hear it very clearly and ominously.to Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday night were so at odds with what health experts are saying -- and millions of people were watching live.
Last night, Trump reacted to the World Health Organization's data-driven assessment of the global death rate for the novel coronavirus -- 3.4% -- by saying"I think the 3.4% is really a false number." "Now, this is just my hunch, based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this, because a lot of 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 -- 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," Trump said.
Trump continued by discarding his own administration's advice to stay home if you're feeling sick:"If 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, and then when you do have a death, like you've had in the state of Washington, like you had one in California, I believe you had one in New York.
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