IN MY PERFECT WORLD, JOURNALISTS WOULD READ AND UNDERSTAND BEFORE SETTING A MATCH TO THEIR HAIR GEL: COVID-19 and Mortality: Trump and WHO Are Both Right.

Oh, and everyone going “durr, Trump’s an idiot!” note that exactly the same point is being made in The Hill today:

Experts warn that the figure from WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus comes full of caveats and is likely to change as more people get tested and undergo treatment for the virus.

“I think it’s lower because we are missing mild cases,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.