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'You can't do that': Donald Trump shuts down over coronavirus death rate

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US President Donald Trump, in an interview with Axios political reporter Jonathan Swan, said the United States has better numbers than many other nations in terms of coronavirus deaths. He pointed out the number of deaths as a percentage of coronavirus cases. When Swan tried to talk about the number of U.S. coronavirus deaths as a percentage of the population, Trump said "You can't do that. You have to go by the cases."
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