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Donald Trump clashes with HBO reporter over Covid-19 death numbers

U.S. President Donald Trump, in an interview with Axios political reporter Jonathan Swan, courtesy of HBO, said the United States has better numbers than many other nations in terms of coronavirus deaths. #AxiosOnHBO

He pointed out the number of deaths as a percentage of coronavirus cases. When Swan tried to talk about the number of U.S. coronavirus deaths as a percentage of the population, Trump said “You can’t do that. You have to go by the cases.”

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