Text with screen shots of White House presser slides - July 6, 2020

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MS. MCENANY: So what the President was pointing to - and I'm glad you brought it up - was a factual statement, one that is rooted in science and one that was pointing out the fact that mortality in this country is very low. And I have two charts that we'll pull up to illustrate that.

The first chart is the case fatality rate in the United States. And as you can see, the mortality rate has gone like this (motions downward) the case fatality rate. And also, in the second chart you'll see hopefully they have it up behind me but the case rate – fatality rate in this country vis-à-vis other European countries is much lower than, let's say, France and Italy. And what that speaks to is the great work of this administration with therapeutics and remdesivir and dexamethasone. And that's what the President was pointing out.

Q So I want to get back to –

MS. MCENANY: Jon.

Q – just to follow up quickly, though. So if you don't die, is it not harmless?

MS. MCENANY: The President was noting the fact that the vast majority of Americans who contract coronavirus will come out on the other side of this. Of course, he takes this very seriously. Of course, no one wants to see anyone in this country contract COVID, which is why the administration has fought hard to make sure that's not the case with our historic response effort.

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