The truth: The science is not definitive, but that doesn’t mean children are immune. When: Multiple times The claim: Children are “virtually immune” to COVID-19. Health experts say blaming Mexican immigrants for surges is misguided, especially when most of the individuals crossing the border are U.S. Customs and Border Protection says illegal border crossings are down compared with last year. and Mexico had jointly agreed in March to restrict nonessential land travel between the two countries, and U.S. The truth: Even before Latin America’s COVID-19 cases began to rise, the U.S. When: Multiple times The claim: Mexico is partly to blame for COVID-19 surges in the Southwest. At the time, it had the world’s ninth-worst mortality rate, with 41.33 deaths per 100,000 people, according to Johns Hopkins University. solidly in the middle of global rankings. As of July 13, the case-fatality rate-the ratio of deaths to confirmed COVID-19 cases-was 4.1 percent, which placed the U.S. had neither the lowest mortality rate nor the lowest case-fatality rate when Trump made this claim. When: Monday, July 6 The claim: “We now have the lowest Fatality (Mortality) Rate in the World.” The truth: The U.S. Fauci has rejected Trump’s claim, saying the evidence shows that the virus “can make you seriously ill” even if it doesn’t kill you. When: Saturday, July 4 The claim: “99%” of COVID-19 cases are “totally harmless.” The truth: The virus can still cause tremendous suffering if it doesn’t kill a patient, and the WHO has said that about 15 percent of COVID-19 cases can be severe, with 5 percent being critical. When: Thursday, July 2 The claim: The pandemic is “getting under control.” The truth: Trump’s claim came as the country’s daily cases doubled to about 50,000, a higher count than was seen at the beginning of the pandemic, and as the number continued to rise, fueled by infections in the South and the West. It’s going to fade away.” The truth: Trump made this claim ahead of his rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when the country was still seeing at least 20,000 new daily cases and a second spike in infections was beginning. When: Wednesday, June 17 The claim: The pandemic is “fading away. Juliette Kayyem: The emotionally challenging next phase of the pandemic Over the summer, the country saw a second surge even greater than its first in the spring. When: Multiple times The claim: “Coronavirus numbers are looking MUCH better, going down almost everywhere,” and cases are “coming way down.” The truth: When Trump made these claims in May, coronavirus cases were either increasing or plateauing in the majority of American states. But a larger analysis in 2017 found that although the rate of suicide was increasing in the United States, the increase could not be directly tied to the recession and was attributable to broader socioeconomic conditions predating the downturn. A 2014 study tied more than 10,000 suicides in Europe and North America to the financial crisis. Estimates of the mental-health toll of the Great Recession are mixed. But the number of people who died by suicide in 2017, for example, was roughly 47,000, nowhere near the COVID-19 numbers. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. The truth: More than 200,000 Americans have died from COVID-19. When: Multiple times The claim: If the economic shutdown continues, deaths by suicide “ definitely would be in far greater numbers than the numbers that we’re talking about” for COVID-19 deaths. One day, it’s like a miracle-it will disappear.” The truth: Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned days later that he was concerned that “as the next week or two or three go by, we’re going to see a lot more community-related cases.” He was right-the virus has not disappeared. When: Thursday, February 27 The claim: The outbreak would be temporary: “It’s going to disappear. But the spring and summer have passed, and the pandemic is still raging. When: Friday, February 7, and Wednesday, February 19 The claim: The coronavirus would weaken “when we get into April, in the warmer weather-that has a very negative effect on that, and that type of a virus.” The truth: When Trump made this claim, it was too early to tell whether the virus’s spread would be dampened by warmer conditions, though public-health experts and epidemiologists were immediately skeptical of Trump’s comment. Here, a collection of the biggest lies he’s told as the nation endures a public-health and economic calamity. President Donald Trump has repeatedly lied about the coronavirus pandemic and the country’s preparation for this once-in-a-generation crisis.
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