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Donald Trump considers the number of deaths caused by COVID-19 in the US to be “exaggerated.” The United States currently faces a record number of infections, while the coronavirus pandemic has claimed more than 350,000 lives in the country. Anthony Fauci, America’s leading infectious disease specialist, contradicted Trump, saying the numbers are real, Agerpres reports.
“The number of cases and deaths from the Chinese virus is greatly exaggerated in the United States due to the ridiculous method of determination (of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention) compared to other countries, many of which report intentionally very inaccurate and low “. Trump wrote on Twitter.
However, health experts responded immediately.
“The dead are really dead. All you have to do is go out into the trenches, go to the hospitals … It’s real, it’s not fake,” Anthony Fauci, America’s leading infectious disease specialist, told ABC News. .
For his part, the head of public health services in the United States, Jerome Adams, told CNN that he has no reason to doubt the number of victims of COVID-19.
According to Johns Hopkins University, the death toll has exceeded 350,000 since the start of the pandemic of 20.4 million infections, far higher than any other country.
According to the same source, the number of new contagion cases reached a new record on Saturday, 299,087.
In the United States, the vaccination campaign is slower than authorities had predicted. The federal government is well below the goal of vaccinating 20 million people by the end of 2020.
According to Fauci, the vaccination rate will intensify and will soon reach 1 million doses per day.
Publisher: ML
