At White House event, Pres. Trump repeats false claim about U.S. mortality rate. The U.S. has the ninth-worst mortality rate in the world, with 39.82 deaths per 100,000 people, per Johns Hopkins University.
In other words, the U.S. finds itself on a shortlist of countries that have the most coronavirus deaths proportional to both its total population and to its confirmed cases.
Both the mortality and case-fatality rates are based on data that public health experts have at just one point in time and do not accurately represent the current state of the epidemic in America, according to Dr. John Brownstein, chief innovation officer for the Boston Children's Hospital and a professor of epidemiology at Harvard Medical School.
As such, the overall case-fatality rate is likely lower for the U.S. than the 4.4% reported by Johns Hopkins – but it is also likely lower for other countries around the world, for the same reason, according to Brownstein, an ABC News contributor. While Trump is correct to argue that the mortality rate is far lower now than it was earlier this year, the virus's continued spread in many states has led to increases in hospitalizations in recent days.Cars are seen as the drivers wait to be tested for COVID-19 at the COVID test site located in the Hard Rock Stadium parking lot on July 06, 2020 in Miami Gardens, Florida.
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