Italian Adviser Suggests that Coronavirus Death Rates in Italy may be Exaggerated

Report: Italian Adviser Suggests that Coronavirus Death Rates in Italy may be Exaggerated

Jim Hoft by Jim Hoft March 21, 2020 27 Comments

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Much of the world is shocked at the coronavirus numbers coming out of Italy.

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The country has one of the oldest populations in Europe and also has the largest Chinese diaspora in the EU today.

The Italian government also released the percentage of deaths by age group.

90+ years old: 6% of deaths

80 – 89 years old: 42% of deaths

70 – 79 years old: 35% of deaths

60 – 69 years old: 16% of deaths

On Saturday Professor Walter Ricciardi, scientific adviser to Italy’s minister of health, told the Telegraph that the coronavirus mortality rate in Italy may be exaggerated due to the way the country records fatalities.

Via Andrew Boston and Diana West:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/report-italian-adviser-suggests-that-coronavirus-death-rates-in-italy-may-be-exaggerated/

Intelligence Reports Warned Of Coronavirus Pandemic Long Before Trump Admin Took It Seriously

Intelligence reports given to President Donald Trump’s administration in January and February pointed to coronavirus becoming a “globe-encircling pandemic” long before Trump took action to prevent it from spreading in the U.S., the Washington Post reported Saturday.

Members of Congress and the Trump administration were receiving the reports even as high-level members of both the Republican and Democratic parties were downplaying the disease. Critically, however, the reports did not make any estimates of when the virus might spread to the U.S., or make suggestions for how to prepare, according to WaPo, which accepted money from the Chinese government for advertising inserts.

As the reports flowed in through January and February, Trump himself declared that the virus was “contained” and that the U.S. faced only some risk of it spreading.

“It will all work out well,” he tweeted on January 24.

When 15 cases appeared in the U.S. a month later, Trump continued to downplay the threat.

“When you have 15 people, and the 15, within a couple of days, is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done,” he said February 27th.

Others echoed his tone.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/21/intelligence-reports-warned-coronavirus-pandemic-trump-admin/

USA Today: Breitbart Correct, New Orleans Mayor Issued Order Allowing Gun Ban

On March 21, 2020, USA Today fact checked Breitbart News’s report that New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell (D) issued a coronavirus emergency order giving herself the power to ban the sale and transportation of firearms in the city.

The result of their fact check was that the Breitbart News report is true.

On March 16, 2020, Breitbart News reported that Mayor Cantrell had issued her order in two parts, over the course of less than a week. The end result was Cantrell claiming power to ban the sale and transportation of firearms and “suspend or limit the sale, dispensing, or transportation, of alcoholic beverages,” among other things.

USA Today reported that Breitbart had a “March 16…article claiming the executive order issued by New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell in response to the coronavirus allows the city to ban the transportation and sale of firearms.” They noted that some secondary outlets on Facebook grabbed Breitbart’s article and ran with it, resulting in “exaggerated versions of the claim circulated on the platform.”

However, USA Today found that Breitbart’s claim about Mayor Cantrell’s order is true, “New Orleans now has the power to suspend the sale and transportation of firearms.”

USA Today “contacted Cantrell’s office with multiple requests to comment but did not receive a response.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/21/usa-today-breitbart-correct-new-orleans-mayor-issued-order-allowing-gun-ban/