650,000 people globally. and that is it at endemic stage. it has reached an equilibrium state. at its pandemic state, in 1918, flu killed over 50 million people. so we mustn't compare apples with oranges here. hopefully, when the coronavirus settles through endemic equilibrium, it will kill no more people than the other four circulating coronaviruses kill at the moment. so that is not a fact comparison. coronavirus is definitely not as deadly in young people as the flu. there is a lot of misinformation but it has been used in the very strange ways. for example, this idea that reinfection means that you can't have herd immunity. it is a complete nonsense. but that has been widely promoted. dr swaminathan, is president trump right then that coronavirus is less deadly