President Trump told his Ohio rally crowd that COVID-19 'affects virtually nobody' except for older Americans and those with preexisting conditions as the death toll approached 200,000...
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As the U.S. hits 200,000 COVID-19 deaths, Trump tells an Ohio rally the coronavirus 'affects virtually nobody'
The U.S. passed yet another "grim milestone" in its COVID-19 pandemic Monday night, Reuters notes, with at least 200,000 Americans dead from the new coronavirus and an average of nearly 1,000 more dying each day. As "the country blew past estimate after estimate" of COVID
'It Affects Virtually Nobody': Fact-checking Trump's Continued Efforts to Downplay Coronavirus Risks
At a campaign rally in Ohio on Monday, Donald Trump said coronavirus 'affects elderly people, elderly people with heart problems and other problems. If they have other problems, that's what it really affects. That's it.'
As the US death toll from the coronavirus eclipses 200,000, President Donald Trump incorrectly claimed at a campaign rally that Covid-19 "affects virtually nobody" under the age of 18, again downplaying the extent of the pandemic and contradicting his previous statements that the virus poses a risk to "plenty of young people".
