Liberal Forum

As the U.S. death toll from the novel coronavirus prepares to eclipse 200,000, President Trump on Monday incorrectly claimed at a campaign rally that covid-19 “affects virtually nobody” younger than 18, again downplaying the extent of the pandemic and contradicting his previous statements that the virus poses a risk to “plenty of young people.”
 
In front of a crowd of mostly maskless supporters not adhering to social distancing in Swanton, Ohio, Trump suggested that only older Americans with heart problems and preexisting conditions truly need to fear the virus.
 
“It affects elderly people, elderly people with heart problems and other problems.

That’s what it really affects,” the president said.

“In some states, thousands of people — nobody young.

Below the age of 18, like, nobody. They have a strong immune system, who knows?

Take your hat off to the young, because they have a hell of an immune system.

But it affects virtually nobody. It’s an amazing thing.”
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In March in one of the president’s interviews with Woodward for the book “Rage,” Trump acknowledged downplaying the severity of covid-19, saying that the virus affected “plenty of young people.”
 
“Now it’s turning out it’s not just old people, Bob,” Trump told Woodward.

“But just today, and yesterday, some startling facts came out.

It’s not just old, older.”

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