Coronavirus, Trump: our lowest mortality rate in the world

2020-07-06T19:39:29.474Z

United States President Donald Trump today defended his management of the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, claiming in a barrage of tweets that "the Chinese Virus Mortality Rate in the US is roughly THE LOWEST IN THE WORLD! " Just today the deaths with Covid-19 exceeded 130 thousand: the United States is the country with the most deaths in the world connected to the pandemic. Trump also said that "deaths in the US are falling, a tenfold drop from the pandemic peak (and, our economy is returning to strength!)" The merit of this drop - according to Trump - is the controversial cure with the hydroxychloroquine, the drug which has long been used in rheumatic diseases, on which the scientific world is divided. "Hydroxychloroquine treatment cuts the mortality rate significantly in patients admitted with Covid-19 and without cardiac side effects, according to a study by the Henry Ford Health System," tweeted Trump, citing this study. "In a large-scale retrospective analysis ... of 2,541 patients hospitalized between 10 March and 2 May 2002 in a system of six hospitals. The study found that only 13% of those treated with hydroxychloroquine died, compared to 26.4% of those not treated with hydroxychloroquine, "wrote the American president. Trump also wrote that "deaths from the Chinese virus have fallen by 39%, while our big test program continues, and is driving the world LONG LONG!" He also attacked the information.