Donald Trump speaks of the coronavirus in his last days of campaign to question the work of the toilets.
This Friday at a rally in Michigan, the US president has assured that doctors who care for patients with covid-19 "earn more money" if they report that their patients die from the virus.
Without supporting his statements with evidence, Trump has risked to justify the growing numbers of infections throughout the country.
So far some nine million people have fallen ill from covid and 229,500 have died, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
Trump has compared the case of the United States with Germany - where there have been 500,000 cases and 10,000 deaths from covid-19 - to affirm that the numerical difference of patients is due to the way in which doctors count patients and deceased.
“If you suffer from the heart and you are ready to die or you have cancer and you are going to die soon, and you get covid, that happens, we count it as covid.
Our doctors make more money if someone dies from covid.
They know, right?
Our doctors are very smart people, so what they do is say 'I'm sorry, but everyone dies of covid,' "he said about the American case.
“But in Germany, in other places, if you have a heart attack or cancer, a terminal illness, they say you die of cancer, of a heart attack.
With us, 'when in doubt, choose covid'.
It is true.
They will say 'what he says is terrible' but it's true.
It's like $ 2,000 more.
This could only happen to us ”, he added.
Trump is at the close of the campaign traveling through the hinge states to snatch votes from Democrat Joe Biden.
The president makes these remarks as these regions experience a spike in coronavirus cases.
The United States is in the third wave of infections since the pandemic began last March.
Trump has refused in recent months to acknowledge the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic.
From the first months he tried to minimize its severity, claiming that it was "a flu", then he tried to place all responsibility on China for the global advance of the virus, and in October, the president fell ill and had to be admitted to hospital.
After receiving intense treatment and when the doctors discharged him, Trump assured that getting sick was "a blessing from God" and embarked on a series of rallies in which there are crowds of people and attendees are not forced to use mask.
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