New York Times Manipulates Data To Indict President Trump On Coronavirus

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 New York Times Manipulates Data To Indict President Trump On Coronavirus

If you read the New York Times, you'd think the U.S. has fallen by the wayside in its fight against the novel Wuhan coronavirus and Trump is to blame.

By Tristan Justice
September 1, 2020

If you read the New York Times Tuesday morning, you’d think the United States has fallen by the wayside in its fight against the novel Wuhan coronavirus, faring no better in the global pandemic against the invisible enemy than allied nations in the developed world.

In his Tuesday morning briefing, Times writer David Leonhardt kicked off September with a comparative analysis of the United States’ pandemic standing relative to other developed nation’s outlining what he deems “America’s Death Gap.”

“Here’s a jarring thought experiment,” Leonhardt explains. “If the United States had done merely an average job of fighting the coronavirus – if the U.S. accounted for the same share of virus deaths as it did global population – how many fewer Americans would have died? The answer: about 145,000.”

Considering just more than 183,000 have succumbed to the disease, that’s a jarring number to indict the White House with less than 65 days from the election.

“No other country looks as bad by this measure,” Leonhardt wrote. “The U.S. accounts for 4 percent of the world’s population, and for 22 percent of confirmed Covid-19 deaths. It is one of the many signs that the Trump administration has done a poorer job of controlling the virus than dozens of other governments around the world.”

It’s a harrowing tale but it isn’t true.

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https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/01/new-york-times-manipulates-data-to-indict-president-trump-on-coronavirus/

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Is anything the NY Times prints true?