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Letter: Not fake news

(Andrew Harnik | AP file phot)  President Donald Trump, accompanied by, from left, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, Vice President Mike Pence, and Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reacts to a question during a news conference on the coronavirus in the press briefing room at the White House in Washington on Feb. 29, 2020.

(Andrew Harnik | AP file phot) President Donald Trump, accompanied by, from left, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, Vice President Mike Pence, and Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reacts to a question during a news conference on the coronavirus in the press briefing room at the White House in Washington on Feb. 29, 2020.

The U.S. has 4% of the world’s population.

The U.S. has 30% of the world’s deaths due to COVID-19.

Fake news? I think not.

Louis Borgenicht, Salt Lake City

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