Comments by "maynunal" (@maynunal) on "Sanders: Trump must declare coronavirus a national emergency" video.

  1. March 2: Trump says a vaccine is coming "relatively soon" Trump said: "We had a great meeting today with a lot of the great companies and they're going to have vaccines, I think relatively soon. And they're going to have something that makes you better and that's going to actually take place, we think, even sooner." Facts First: "Relatively soon" is too vague a phrase to call this claim false, but Trump did not mention that Fauci had told him earlier that day that a vaccine was "a year to a year and a half" away. Fauci similarly told the Senate the next day that the process of getting a vaccine ready to deploy "will take at least a year and a year and a half."
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  2. March 6: Trump falsely says US coronavirus numbers "are lower than just about anybody" Trump said that "we have very low numbers compared to major countries throughout the world. Our numbers "are lower than just about anybody." Facts First: Trump was exaggerating. The US did have fewer confirmed coronavirus cases than some countries, including China, Italy, Iran, South Korea, France and Germany. But it had more confirmed cases than big-population countries like India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil, Russia and Nigeria, plus neighbors Mexico and Canada, plus many other high-income countries. In addition, the number of confirmed cases is dependent on how many people are tested. The US was conducting fewer tests than some countries with much smaller populations.
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  3. March 6: Trump baselessly muses that "maybe" the coronavirus improved US jobs numbers Trump touted the jobs report for February, which showed a gain of 273,000 jobs. He then said that, instead of traveling abroad, "I think, you know, a lot of people are staying here and they're going to be doing their business here." He continued, "And maybe that's one of the reasons the job numbers are so good. We've had a lot of travel inside the USA." Facts First: We can't definitively call this false, but there's no evidence to back it up. Reports suggest the domestic travel industry is also being hurt by the coronavirus. In March, US airlines announced they were reducing domestic flights as well as international flights in March, and companies called off US conferences and limiting corporate travel. While industry experts said some particular domestic travel destinations could possibly benefit if the virus causes travelers to opt for local trips rather than international trips, there is no hard evidence for that yet.
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  4. March 2: Trump falsely claims "nobody knew" the number of US flu deaths Trump said: "You know, three, four weeks ago, I said, 'Well, how many people die a year from the flu?' And, in this country, I think last year was 36- or 37,000 people. And I'm saying, 'Wow, nobody knew that information.'" He said at a campaign rally: "So when you lose 27,000 people a year, nobody knew that. I didn't know that." Facts First: Trump might not have known the number of annual flu deaths in the US, but that doesn't mean "nobody" else did. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention publishes annual estimates on its website. The CDC estimates that between 12,000 and 61,000 people have died in the US in each flu season between 2010-2011 and 2018-2019; its preliminary figure for 2018-2019 is 34,157 deaths.
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