evidence: The morning after returning to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center where he was being treated for Covid-19, Trump claimed that the coronavirus is far less lethal than the seasonal flu. [...] Facts First: This is false. While the grammar of the tweet is slightly confusing, it’s not true that Covid-19 is "far less lethal" than the flu in the United States. It’s also not true that anywhere close to 100,000 people die of the flu every year in the US. [...] The coronavirus is also killing Americans at a higher rate than the flu. As of Tuesday morning, Johns Hopkins University data put the US coronavirus case fatality rate at 2.8%. The mortality rate for seasonal flu is "about 0.1%, 0.2% at the most," according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, other experts and CDC data since 2010.