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By minimizing the complications of coronavirus in young people, Trump said that the epidemic “affects practically no one”. Meanwhile, however, in the United States the death toll reaches the sad milestone of 200,000 dead.
Coronavirus, Trump: “It hardly affects anyone”
During a rally in Ohio, the US president said Monday night that the virus “affects older people, older people with heart problems, if they have other problems.” But in the end “it doesn’t affect practically anyone, it’s extraordinary. By the way, open your schools, ”Trump added.
But Dr. Anthony Fauci, who leads the United States’ fight against the epidemic, rejects this thesis.
In a recent interview, he said that between 25 and 30 percent of US citizens already have “other problems,” such as obesity, that can increase risk of a serious reaction. And it can be serious, Fauci explained, even in young people.
Several studies have highlighted the dangerous side effects of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, such as Heart problems or to the bone marrow.
USA more than 200,000 deaths from COVID
Meanwhile, the United States has reached 200,000 deaths from coronavirus. 107 of them were between 0 and 18 years old. Tens of thousands are victims under the age of 65., some of whom were in good health, recalls the New York Times.
Despite representing 4% of the world’s population, deaths in the US from COVID-19 are 20% of the total.
Yet Trump continues to downplay the scale of the epidemic, only to attack China for “infecting the world.”
Speaking at the UN assembly, the president of the United States devoted the 15 minutes of his speech to the attack on Beijing: “China has infected the world, we must hold China accountable who spread this plague throughout the world”.
“The Chinese government and the World Health Organization, which is practically controlled by China, misrepresented that there was no evidence of human transmission. They later said that people without symptoms do not transmit the disease.Trump added.
The president added that the United States has three potential vaccines in the final phase of trials and has promised to distribute them around the world.
