US Surgeon General Jerome Adams on Sunday said he believed that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were accurately counting and representing COVID-19 …
US Surgeon General Jerome Adams on Sunday said he believed that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were accurately counting and representing COVID-19 infections and deaths after President Donald Trump baselessly questioned their accuracy. The president on Twitter criticized his own government Sunday, claiming the « number of cases and deaths of the China Virus is far exaggerated in the United States because of @CDCgov’s ridiculous method of determination compared to other countries, many of whom report, purposely, very inaccurately and low. » Trump has long referred to COVID-19 as the « China Virus » despite racist connotations associated with the moniker. As Business Insider’s Yelena Dzhanova reported Sunday, the CDC is run by people that president Trump appointed and for months has regularly updated its COVID-19 statistics. « From a public health perspective, I have no reason to doubt those numbers, » Adams told CNN’s Jake Tapper during an appearance on « State of the Union.
