20 Aug: Frontpage: Undignified Obama
What an ex-president’s inflammatory and hateful nominating-convention address was made of.
by Matthew Vadum
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi uttered bogus statistics, saying “more than 5 million Americans are” –present tense— infected by COVID-19.
According to Worldometers.info, at the very moment she offered that figure, a cumulative total of 5,700,931 Americans had contracted the disease. But Pelosi left out the fact that 3,062,331 recovered from it, which means that only 2,638,600 –or half the number she claimed— now have the disease.
Presumably, Pelosi thought that doubling the number of those currently infected made President Trump look worse...
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/08/undignified-obama-matthew-vadum/
amazing a honest fact-check:
20 Aug: WKYC: VERIFY: Fact-checking the speakers from night 3 of the Democratic National Convention
Pelosi said that “more than five million Americans are infected by the coronavirus.”
This claim is false.
The U.S. has had more than five million cases total, but that includes all the people who have recovered or died due to the virus. According to Johns Hopkins data, roughly two million people in the United States have recovered from the coronavirus and 173,125 have died. If you subtract those from the total cases, you’re left with at most 3.4 million people who could be infected. That number is likely lower as the recovered numbers update slower.
Sources: John Hopkins Case Tracker
- Jason Puckett...
Warren said that “America has the most COVID deaths in the world.”
This is true but needs context.
Data from Johns Hopkins shows that the United States does have the highest total number of COVID-19 deaths in the world with 173,125 deaths. But, the United States also has a larger population than many other countries in the world.
If you adjust the total deaths by population the U.S. drops lower. A Johns Hopkins analysis of deaths per 100,000 population shows the U.S. is actually ***4th highest in the world. A separate analysis compares the observed case-fatality ratio of each country. This number is determined by dividing the total number of fatalities by the total number of cases. On this chart, the U.S. ranks 12th in the world.
Sources: Johns Hopkins COVID Tracker, Johns Hopkins Mortality Analyses
- Jason Puckett
https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/verify/verify-fact-checking-night-3-dnc/507-519eb94d-bf37-4398-8265-0d00cb8fce5b
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