9/22/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “President Trump was speaking at a rally in Ohio on Monday evening [Sep. 21, 2020] when he said the coronavirus ‘affects virtually nobody.’ On Tuesday, the U.S. reached the grim milestone of 200,000 COVID-19 deaths. The United States has for many months had the highest number of infections and deaths in the world, with more than 6.8 million confirmed cases as of Tuesday, according to Johns Hopkins University data…

While the risk of serious complications does increase with age, young people are not immune to the virus. Children as young as a few months old have died from COVID-19, as have many young adults. A growing number of younger patients have also experienced crippling battles with the virus, slow recoveries and ‘long-haul’ symptoms that last for months.”

-Caitlin O’Kane, “Trump said coronavirus “affects virtually nobody,” as U.S. surpasses 200,000 deaths,” cbsnews.com, Sep. 22, 2020