Coronavirus Information...who do you trust?

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(09-02-2020, 05:10 PM)PhilHos Wrote:  
We have the highest total number of deaths in the world, true. But, when it comes to deaths per capita, we're 9th.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/

Also 9th in mortality rate
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

Clearly this does not exonerate Trump nor is this an attempt to defend him. I'm just bringing out some numbers for some perspective.

And those numbers also seem to support the consensus that travel bans don’t work and why epidemiologists support other measures to control transmission.