Trump suggests COVID-19 deaths are being over reported

US President Donald Trump claimed on Saturday the US coronavirus reporting system was "a little bit backwards" and that hospitals were over-classifying virus deaths. Speaking at a rally in Wisconsin Trump claimed doctors and hospitals got more money if they report death as COVID related - even though there is no evidence of that and experts say the count is likely under-reported.

He said: "If somebody has a really bad heart and they're close to death, even if they're not, but they have a very bad heart and they get COVID, they put it down to COVID, other countries put it down to a heart."

"We're going to start looking at things because they have things a little bit backwards," he said.

Trump also said he would be making a drug he said he took to fight the virus "available to anybody that needs it". He said: "They gave me Regeneron and I wake up the next morning and I felt like Superman." 

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