Dr. Gupta on Trump’s Interview with Axios: ‘How Are You Going to Solve the Problem If You’re Not Defining It?’

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GUPTA: "Yeah, and if you don’t have an acknowledgment of how significant the problem is here, I think what’s frightening, frustrating, scary even, is that how are you going to solve the problem if you’re not defining it? I mean, just look at the right side of the screen. We are not even 5% of the world’s population and we are 20% to 25% of the world’s infections, 20% to 25% of the world’s deaths. I’m not exactly sure what they were driving at. Regardless of how you measure it, the United States is doing really poorly. And frankly, we don’t even have a good measure in this country, right? Because we’re still not doing enough testing. As you know, there have been some projections saying, hey, if you look at the numbers in terms of overall cases in the United States, it could be ten times higher than that. We have missed so many cases, especially in those early weeks when it really started to spread, basically unchecked. So, they were going back and forth about, do you do it as a percentage of cases, do you do it as a percentage of the country overall? It doesn’t really matter. I mean, the absolute numbers are really awful in this country. And again, we’re not even 5% of the world’s population."