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The present tense of “are” is misleading. Over 4.5 million of these cases have recovered, as in “were”. Such shoddy journalism.

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According to Johns Hopkins University's tally of cases in the United States, there are at least 4,710,282 cases of coronavirus in the U.S.; at least 155,331 people have died in the U.S. from coronavirus.

11:12 PM · Aug 3, 2020

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Plus, those people died WITH corona not FROM corona! If someone who is HIV-positive dies in a car accident, do we say they died of AIDS? If we use the same rules we do with corona we should!

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Jake Tapper is not a journalist.

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More concerning is the preposition “from”... as it’s much more precise to say “died with” the virus. Even more accurate is “deemed likely with”... 🤷🏻‍♀️

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