President Donald Trump continued to pitch himself as the anti-science candidate during the final 2020 presidential debate on Thursday, falsely claiming that America is rounding the turn and learning to live with the coronavirus pandemic, among other things.

As hes done before, Trump attempted to paint his administrations botched COVID-19 response as a success by pointing to one of the worst possible death projections an early estimate by British researchers that found there could be as many as 2.2 million fatalities in the U.S. if no containment measures were taken.

This is a worldwide problem, but Ive been congratulated by the heads of many countries on what weve been able to do, Trump said, without disclosing a single specific world leader. It will go away, and as I say, were rounding the turn, were rounding the corner. Its going away.

The coronavirus has killed more than 222,000 Americans. And more than 1,100 deaths were reported on Wednesday, the highest daily toll in more than a month.

Trump also claimed that a COVID-19 vaccine is coming, thats ready, thats going to be announced within weeks. There is nothing to indicate this is true. Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, told NPR on Tuesday that hes guardedly optimistic that a vaccine could be available by the end of the year, but widespread distribution is unlikely until mid- or late-2021.

Former Vice President Joe Biden responded to Trumps COVID-19 misinformation by pointing to the rapidly rising death toll and arguing that Trump still doesnt have a comprehensive plan to tackle the crisis.

Anyone who is responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the United States of America, Biden said.

He says were learning to live with it? People are learning to die with it.