[See NewsBusters for more.] With the election close at hand, CNN Newsroom was so desperate on Monday to paint the Trump Administration as a failure that medical correspondent Dr. Seema Yasmin claimed that if the U.S. had just done what other countries had done, it is possible that nearly 90% of those who died from COVID-19 would still be alive.
Host Poppy Harlow began by leading Yasmin with a contradictory statement, "If we could begin with the comparison between the United States, I mean Mark Meadows says it's like the flu so you can't get rid of it. You just have to look at South Korea for example, as evidence that you can control it."