[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 121 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H2992]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 HIGHLIGHTING COVID-19 DEATH STATISTICS

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, we have heard several speeches this 
morning about the COVID epidemic.
  Like a lot of Americans, every day, I like to get up and see whether 
we are moving in the right direction or not. I was sad to see this 
morning--I checked the Worldometer's website because a lot of my 
constituents tell me that is the one to check, and I was sad to see 
that, this morning, when they gave the number of deaths yesterday, on 
Tuesday, they list 764 Americans who had passed away.
  However, the Worldometer website kind of goes up and down by the day. 
It is always very low on Sunday and Saturday. It gets higher on 
Wednesday and Thursday.
  However, I did notice that the 764 deaths yesterday, on Tuesday, was 
the lowest on a Tuesday since March 23.
  Mondays are always very low. We had 366 deaths on Monday. That was 
also the lowest since March.
  Mr. Speaker, I hope that we continue to have the progress as we work 
the number of people who die of this horrible disease down every day, 
but I have a feeling that a lot of Americans are being misled. So I am 
just pointing out the way these statistics are going.

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