'The number or rate of deaths from Covid-19 in the United States is a disaster no matter what metric is used. And it is clear from the [Fox] interview that President Trump willingly presents misinformation he is given.' | Dr. Kent Sepkowitz for CNNOpinion
Kent Sepkowitz is a CNN medical analyst and a physician and infection control expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN.
An interesting moment in Fox News reporter Chris Wallace's memorable interview of President Donald was a confusing back and forth about Covid-19 related deaths. The President claimed that the US had the"number one low mortality rate" in the world -- whereas Wallace insisted the US had little to crow about.
Dr. Kent SepkowitzThough it is clear that Trump is completely wrong, comparing the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the mortality of each affected country turns out be a very tricky business. Because no one metric is perfect, especially when used to compare impact across countries, there is a large corner of epidemiology dedicated to how to most accurately tabulate death.
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