“Getting coronavirus is not a death sentence except for maybe no more than 3.4 percent of our population . ADThe senator’s statistic comes from the World Health Organization’s projected death rate of those who contract the virus, not of an entire population. Johnson is one of several Republicans who seemed to minimize the threat of the deadly pandemic despite public health officials and now, Trump, urging Americans to take it seriously. 90% of them are working for the Democrats, working for the left . Cornyn faced swift condemnation from Democrats for the remark, which echoes Trump’s insistence on calling the pandemic the “Chinese virus.”

Source: Washington Post March 19, 2020 00:45 UTC