Trump, White House aide Mark Meadows downplay coronavirus risks even as rush contain surging cases
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Date: 2020-07-07

WASHINGTON – White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Monday defended President Donald Trump's claim that 99% of coronavirus cases are "harmless" – an assertion at odds with a wide array of data on death rates and hospitalizations and studies on the impact of the disease.
impact of the disease.

Trump has downplayed the disease as governors across the country have halted reopenings of their states in an effort to stem a surge in cases. 

Asked on "Fox and Friends" about Trump's claim that 99% of coronavirus cases were "harmless," Meadows responded, "When you start to look at the stats and all the numbers that we have, the amount of testing that we have, the vast majority of people are safe from this." 

"Outside of comorbidities" such as diabetes or hypertension, he said, the "risks are extremely low and the president’s right with that, and the facts and the statistics back us up there."
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Trump, White House aide Mark Meadows downplay coronavirus risks as governors rush to contain surging cases

NICHOLAS WU | USA TODAY

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WASHINGTON – White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Monday defended President Donald Trump's claim that 99% of coronavirus cases are "harmless" – an assertion at odds with a wide array of data on death rates and hospitalizations and studies on the impact of the disease.

Trump has downplayed the disease as governors across the country have halted reopenings of their states in an effort to stem a surge in cases. 

Asked on "Fox and Friends" about Trump's claim that 99% of coronavirus cases were "harmless," Meadows responded, "When you start to look at the stats and all the numbers that we have, the amount of testing that we have, the vast majority of people are safe from this." 

"Outside of comorbidities" such as diabetes or hypertension, he said, the "risks are extremely low and the president’s right with that, and the facts and the statistics back us up there."

More than 130,000 Americans have died as a result of the coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University data, and coronavirus cases continue to rise across the country.

The fatality rate, or deaths divided by confirmed cases, is 4.5%, according to Johns Hopkins, though the death rate could vary and could be lower if cases are undercounted because of the lack of testing. More than 38,000 people are hospitalized with the coronavirus, according to the COVID Tracking Project's seven-day rolling average of hospitalizations. 

The rise in cases in Texas has left officials worried about the availability of intensive care units. Austin Mayor Steve Adler told the Austin American-Statesman of the USA TODAY Network that units could be overrun in the next two weeks if cases continue to climb in the region. 

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