Fauci on Trump’s 99% harmless claim: “I’m trying to figure out where the president got that number. What I think happened is that someone told him that the general mortality is about 1%. And he interpreted, therefore, that 99% is not a problem, when that’s obviously not the case” https://t.co/JMy9LeLOPC

— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) July 10, 2020

Fact-checking President Trump's claims that US coronavirus death rate is the lowest worldwide https://t.co/BgxRXpNTdZ pic.twitter.com/kFgNn6Xo4b

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 7, 2020

As it turns out, I did report on this claim about mortality, less than two hours ago.

It is false. https://t.co/S54vz1EcPlhttps://t.co/UhJdw5XuE7

— Philip Bump (@pbump) July 7, 2020

This lie is as brazen as any Trump has told. The US is nowhere near to "the lowest Mortality Rate in the World." https://t.co/zBo2qZTr6D https://t.co/gUvJKlbAyV

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 7, 2020

Per @JohnsHopkins, the U.S. does not have the lowest mortality rate in the world.

Not even close, in fact. pic.twitter.com/cTeX3TwD5Q

— Jordan Ray (@JordanLRay) July 6, 2020

CNN's Brianna Keilar: Why's Trump saying US has lowest COVID mortality rate when it doesn't?

Ken Cuccinelli: We're below Italy and Germany

Keilar: [reads off 13 countries we trail]

Cuccinelli: We're testing a bunch

Keilar: But these are death rates

Cuccinelli: I understand pic.twitter.com/LIIQTsPq9D

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) July 7, 2020

Dear @realDonaldTrump: Stop making stuff up. The case fatality rate for #COVIDー19 based on current data is approximately 4.3% in the US.

Many hospitals now have no ICU beds available, including 56 hospitals in Florida.

Please stop downplaying the virus. https://t.co/DTgTMLeCyt https://t.co/v9IX3obJMY

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) July 8, 2020

Trump, with no apparent basis, on coronavirus cases: "99% of which are totally harmless."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 4, 2020

Not that you needed more proof of the malicious ignorance of Trump’s “99% harmless” assessment, but here’s more proof https://t.co/nnzujDPfs2

— David Frum (@davidfrum) July 5, 2020

Trump lied in his July 4th address with the intention of misleading people about the coronavirus saying it's "harmless" in "99 percent of the cases." Reality: US has 2,811,447 cases of virus and 129,403 deaths, about 4.6 percent mortality.

— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) July 5, 2020

President Trump uses his July 4th address to put forward a dangerously misleading claim | Analysis https://t.co/EcGH518ko2 pic.twitter.com/6kVZNGiO0O

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 5, 2020

Dr. Hahn threw away all credibility today. He had the opportunity to guide Americans & instead ignored science in order to not contradict a reckless claim made by the President. Americans will die because of behavior like this. @SteveFDA https://t.co/F7yKUUcl4P

— Eric Stangel (@EricStangel) July 5, 2020

“Outside from [comorbidities], the risks are extremely low” — Mark Meadows defends Trump’s false claim about 99 percent of Covid cases being harmless pic.twitter.com/levl8eKdxR

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 6, 2020

Trump claimed 99% of Covid cases are "totally harmless." McEnany says he meant 99% of Americans who get the virus won't *die.*

Ridiculous, even if you grant the spin. We know that lots of survivors have severe immediate problems and sometimes prolonged problems.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 6, 2020

Asked about Trump downplaying coronavirus after saying “99 percent” of covid cases are “totally harmless,” McEnany said: “The president isn’t downplaying the severity of the virus.”

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 6, 2020

McEnany confirms that Trump's claim that 99% of coronavirus infections are "totally harmless" is only about deaths — which does him far less good as an argument than he seems to think. https://t.co/MDg1l0mkvV

— Philip Bump (@pbump) July 6, 2020

For the record: @PressSec is now saying when President Trump says 99 percent of COVID cases are "totally harmless" he means that in most cases you don't die.

— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) July 6, 2020

Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto refuted President Trump’s false claim that 99 percent of America’s confirmed coronavirus cases were “totally harmless,” tallying off a number of statistics to inform Fox viewers about how dangerous the virus is https://t.co/HsLksOeSq9

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) July 6, 2020