Joe Biden evokes "100 deaths" from Covid-19 in the US instead of a million

Joe Biden evokes “100 deaths” from Covid-19 in the US instead of a million

During a speech given on Tuesday in Washington devoted to the mental health of Americans, US president, Joe Biden, mistakenly said that 100 people had died of Covid-19 in the country during the pandemic.

“We still feel the deep loss from the pandemic. As I mentioned, over 100 people have died. That’s 100 empty chairs around the kitchen table. For every loss, there are so many people left behind. behind with a broken heart,” Joe Biden said.

This Joe Biden blunder is probably linked to a careless error. At the start of the same speech, according to this same transcript, the American president did indeed mention the correct figure “of one million Covid deaths.”

However, this is not the first time that the American president, frequently mocked for his advanced age, has made a mistake during a speech. The latest example, at the end of June, when he confused the war in Ukraine with that in Iraq.

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