'They're adding': Trump suggests New York City padding coronavirus death toll with unconfirmed cases
by Emma Colton
| April 16, 2020 10:01 AM
President Trump suggested New York City was inflating the numbers of residents who died of the coronavirus.
Trump questioned Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio’s revised coronavirus death toll after the city added 3,778 deaths of patients that experienced COVID-19 virus symptoms but were never tested for the illness.
“I see this morning where New York added 3,000 deaths because they died, and they're now saying, rather than it was a heart attack, they're saying heart attack caused by this, so they're adding. If you look at it, that's it,†he said a White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing.
"Everything we have is documented, reported. And what they are doing is 'just in case' — they're calling it this, and that's OK. That's OK," he continued before explaining why he believes numbers in the United States are higher than other countries. "But we have more cases because we do more reporting.â€
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