• US President Donald Trump on Monday praised his reponse to COVID-19, noting that nearly 200,000 dead Americans was fewer than the 2.2 million one model projected if no mitigating action were taken at state or federal level.
• Trump said the death toll would be even lower if it excluded states run by Democrats.
• “The blue states had tremendous death rates,” he said. “If you take the blue states out, we are at a level I don’t think anybody in the world would be at.”
• In fact, two of the top five states reporting the most COVID-19 deaths are run by Republicans: Florida and Texas.
• More than 400,000 Americans could be dead by the end of the year, according to one model.
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US President Donald Trump praised his response to the coronavirus pandemic on Wednesday, defining success as nearly 200,000 dead Americans — up from the 60,000 he predicted in April, and the 100,000 he predicted in May — and argued the death toll would be lower if it excluded the most densely populated, “blue” states.

Speaking to reporters Wednesday, Trump stood before a chart of one of the earliest, most dire …continued .
[Source: Business Insider]