Trump Wrongly Claims COVID-19 ‘Affects Virtually Nobody’
President Donald Trump believes “virtually nobody” is affected by COVID-19, despite the rising death toll and warnings from public health experts. At his campaign rally on Monday evening in Swanton, Ohio, Trump said …
President Donald Trump believes “virtually nobody” is affected by COVID-19, despite the rising death toll and warnings from public health experts.
At his campaign rally on Monday evening in Swanton, Ohio, Trump said, “We now know the disease. We didn’t know it, now we know it.”
Trump told his supporters that the coronavirus “really affects” those who are elderly “with heart problems and other problems.”
He continued to say, “In some states, thousands of people — nobody young. Below the age of 18, like, nobody. They have a strong immune system, who knows? Take your hat off to the young, because they have a hell of an immune system.”
Trump then wrongly stated, “But it affects virtually nobody. It’s an amazing thing.”
Watch Trump’s comments below:
The president’s remarks come as the U.S. has reported more than 6.8 million positive coronavirus cases. The country has seen nearly 200,000 deaths due to the virus, and roughly 4.3 million reported recoveries.
Though Trump incorrectly claimed the virus “affects virtually no one,” the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has