New York Times Manipulates Data to Indict President Trump on Coronavirus
If you read the New York Times Tuesday morning, you’d think the United States has fallen by the wayside in its fight against the novel Wuhan coronavirus, faring no better in the global pandemic against the invisible enemy than allied nations in the developed world.
In his Tuesday morning briefing, Times writer David Leonhardt kicked off September with a comparative analysis of the United States’ pandemic standing relative to other developed nation’s outlining what he deems “America’s Death Gap.”
“Here’s a jarring thought experiment,” Leonhardt explains. “If the United States had done merely an average job of fighting the coronavirus – if the U.S. accounted for the same share of virus deaths as it did global population – how many fewer Americans would have died? The answer: about 145,000.” . . .
While the United States is by no means a top-tier nation in its pandemic performance, thanks to crisis outbreaks in the densely populated tri-state area around New York City which calls home to more than half of the country’s COVID-19 fatalities, the developed nations presented by the Times as model societies far more triumphant against the virus than the U.S. are in reality no more successful when considering critical context conveniently omitted by the legacy paper.
To indict U.S. performance, the Times scored the U.S.’s response by outlining the proportion of the world’s COVID-19 deaths related to its proportion of the world’s population. For example, the U.S. has suffered about 22 percent of the world’s coronavirus deaths while only possessing 4 percent of the global population presenting a 17.5 percent gap. In contrast, the United Kingdom and Canada hold gaps of merely about 4 percent and 0.5 percent respectively. (Read more from “New York Times Manipulates Data to Indict President Trump on Coronavirus” HERE)
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