US Cases: 7,154,198*
US Deaths: 197,868*
Worldwide Cases: 33,560,877*
Worldwide Deaths: 1,006,564*
* - Numbers are a lower bound. True numbers are being suppressed by the Trump administration
As you may know, there was a debate tonight. Many things were said, and on occasion, the audience was actually able to hear some of them. Given that he has no record to run on, Trump did what he always does: lie.
Specifically, as regards the coronavirus, Trump repeated his lie that shutting down travel from China saved 2 million American lives. I'm not sure which orifice he pulled this number from, but it's clearly wrong. We know this mainly because he didn't really shut down travel from China, as much as he modestly curtailed it.
In any case, Trump's response to the pandemic has been nothing short of a disaster, as one can easily see (and as Biden noted in the debate) by the fact that the U.S. has only about 4% of the world's population, but nearly 20% of the world's coronavirus deaths (19.66%, to be scrupulously fair).
For those who prefer a visual representation of Trump's failure, here's the latest version of how the U.S. compares to the rest of the world in coronavirus deaths per capita:
In case you're wondering, the only other countries doing about as badly as the U.S. are Mexico and Brazil. As you can see, practically every other country on the planet has a lower mortality rate.
And if you're the kind of person who likes to pretend the rest of the world doesn't exist, the coronvirus is now the third leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020, just behind heart disease and cancer.
(Parenthetically --- if you learned you could drastically reduce the number of cancer deaths just by wearing a mask in public --- you'd do it, right?)
Trump's other big lie about the coronavirus tonight is that he claimed he was being sarcastic when he suggested that injecting disinfectant might be a viable treatment.
Judge for yourself to see whether he's being sarcastic:
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