As the official U.S. death toll from the coronavirus climbed past 3,000 in the last several days, surpassing casualties from the 9/11 attacks, some conservative news personalities have reacted by questioning the accuracy of the numbers.
Diamond & Silk, who are hosts on the Fox Nation streaming site and allies of President Trump whom he has praised online, said Monday that the number of coronavirus deaths being reported by the media had been inflated to make the president look bad.
“In a matter of two weeks, over 1,000 people supposedly died from the coronavirus,” Silk said. “In a two-week time period, over 1,000 people, after being tested positive, have died from the coronavirus. But it took 39 days, from January all the way up to February the 29th, I believe, for the first person to die. My president said, on March the 24th — Tuesday, this past week — my president said that he would love for America to be back up and running.”
“I knew this was going to happen,” Diamond added. “I knew after he said this, this was going to happen.”
“At the time he said it, there was 25,489 cases with 307 deaths,” continued Silk. “Instantaneously, you had the media calling President Trump out, he wanted open by Easter, he wants this open by Easter — me and you was talking, I said now watch the number of deaths go up. Watch everything increase, because they wanted to make it look bad in front of our eyes.”
The number of cases and deaths in the U.S. matched the trends in other countries that failed to take timely measures, such as testing and stay-at-home orders, to stop the spread. Experts, including some on the White House coronavirus task force, said Trump’s April 12 goal for returning the country to normal was far too aggressive. On Monday, Trump extended the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines that recommended no gatherings of more than 10 people and limiting any unnecessary travel until April 30.
As of Tuesday afternoon, there were over 181,000 confirmed cases in the U.S. and more than 3,600 deaths.
Conservative radio host Mark Levin said Monday that he was skeptical of the numbers of reported dead from the coronavirus, saying, “I cannot find anywhere the definition of what it means to die from this virus.”
The cause of death of anyone who dies while under medical care — the vast majority of COVID-19 casualties — is certified by the attending physician. Patients who test positive for the coronavirus and who develop the telltale symptoms of acute respiratory distress to the point of death are presumptively counted as having died of it.
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9 comments:
All they have to do is watch the bodies being loaded onto refrigerated 18 wheel trucks by a forklift in New York.
Get real, this is real!
Totally ignorant on their part to question this.
I too believe something is fishy. I was in a huge hospital in Florida yesterday with a patient. You would have thought this was my private hospital. Empty hospital beds in hallway - in rooms. 2 nurses in recovery, 2 different attending nurses before check out. Free valet parking. Hospital hallways empty. Where are all these virus patients?
This is way overblown my family that fought in WW2 would laugh at how this country has cowered to this plandemic. Should be renamed the Controlavirus! We are getting sick and tired of hearing about this crap
Agreed definitely think something isn't adding up
Apparently they’re dead.
The numbers are inflated just like snow storm casualties. "A heavy snow broke a limb, which caused it to fall on a car, that set off its alarm, that scared a cat in the neighbors house, that knocked over a lamp, that caught on fire, and a first responder died from smoke inhalation." Already 1 casualty from the snow.
They are in special units. Where you have no access. Where no one belongs except healthcare professionals. The rest of the hospital is at a low census due to no surgeries except emergencies. No one is coming to the hospital if they can avoid it. Trust me. I know.
Why should it make the president look bad? He didn't cause it and could have been on top it way sooner if the dems didn't have things tied up trying to impeach Trump. It's all the democrats fault, not Trumps. He has done more to help then anybody.
Joe, I made a comment about the bodies being loaded into the refrigerated trailers. I do not think this is a hoax I take this serious. I just question where the information came from the first comment referenced. I saw a news clip that talked about refrigerated trailer being set up, but it was stated that the trailers were not being used.
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