Many people every year and despite the vaccine, die of the flu, Trump had tweeted (Archive)
US President Donald Trump downplayed the COVID-19 pandemic again, likening it to the flu in a tweet on Tuesday, and Twitter responded by placing a warning tag on the tweet, saying the post included potentially misleading information. .
“Flu season is coming! Many people each year, sometimes over 100,000, and despite the vaccine, die from the flu. Are we going to close our country? No, we have learned to live with it, by just as we are learning to live with Covid, in most populations much less lethal !!! “Trump had tweeted.
Earlier in the day, Facebook removed a similar post from Trump, according to CNN.
The tweet comes hours after Trump was discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
On Monday, Trump told Americans to “get out there” and not to fear COVID-19 when he returned to the White House after a three-night hospital stay to be treated for the novel coronavirus and removed his surgical mask. white to pose for photos.
During the 2019-2020 flu season, the flu was associated with 22,000 deaths, according to estimates from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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