Trump questions accuracy of coronavirus death toll: Report
US President Donald Trump has questioned the way coronavirus deaths are being calculated, suggesting the real numbers are much lower, according to a report by Axios.
“A senior administration official said he expects the president to begin publicly questioning the death toll as it closes in on his predictions for the final death count and damages him politically,” the report said.
“The official said Trump has vented that the numbers seem inflated and has brought up New York’s addition of more than 3,000 unconfirmed but suspected COVID-19 cases to its death toll,” it added.
Many observers maintain that Donald Trump, who is under unprecedented pressure over his poor handling of the pandemic, is trying to evade the responsibility of the crisis via such claims.
On Tuesday, Trump accused the US Democrats of downplaying his actions in fight against the coronavirus.
Without providing any evidence, he went on to say that the Democrats “want us to fail so they can win an election, which they’re not going to win.”
The US president also has repeatedly criticized the Chinese officials over new coronavirus outbreak, claiming that the pandemic has started from a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
Scientists, however, have condemned conspiracy theories about the Chinese laboratory, saying the new coronavirus has jumped from animals to humans.
Coronavirus has taken the lives of more than 74,000 US citizens so far.
Meanwhile, data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that the country could see up to 3,000 deaths per day over the COVID-19 pandemic by June 1.
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