Trump returns to misleadingly comparing COVID-19 to the flu: 'We have learned to live with it'
President Trump on Tuesday continued to downplay the threat of the coronavirus after his release from the hospital while still under treatment for COVID-19, asserting that the virus that has killed more than 210,000 Americans is “far less lethal” than the seasonal flu “in most populations.”
And comparative fatality figures don’t tell the whole story. There is increasing evidence that some number of coronavirus survivors have symptoms including fatigue, cough and cognitive problems that last for months, and organ damage that may be permanent. Those complications generally do not arise in people who recover from the flu.
Story continuesAs of Tuesday morning, at least 210,195 people in the U.S. have died from complications related to COVID-19, none of whom received near the same level of medical care that the president received at Walter Reed.
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