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Donald Trump’s ‘hunch’ about coronavirus is likely correct

8 March 2020

3:43 AM

8 March 2020

3:43 AM

Donald Trump is in the soup again, this time for appearing to reject the World Health Organisation’s estimate for the death rate from coronavirus (Covid-19): 3.4 per cent. ‘I think the 3.4 per cent is really a false number,’ he said on Thursday before adding that he had a ‘hunch’ that the real death rate is less than one per cent.

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