Biden says ‘COVID deaths are up’ in latest verbal blunder

Published June 4, 2021 6:20pm ET



President Joe Biden erroneously said coronavirus deaths are “up” throughout the United States while delivering a speech about May’s job numbers on Friday.

“Look, COVID cases are down, COVID deaths are up,” the 78-year-old president said in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

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