America's first COVID-19 coronavirus fatality could haunt President Donald Trump's administration and potentially cost him his presidency.
On Saturday he called attempts to play up the threat a "hoax", and on Sunday he got the victim's sex wrong.
Trump's handling of America's health crisis has handed his Democratic opponents a giant thermometer to beat him with on their own campaign trial.
As people were queuing up to vote in South Carolina on Saturday (local time) to choose a Democrat to take on Trump, champion of healthcare for the masses Senator Bernie Sanders was quick to spot the golden opportunity to take the President down.
"In the midst of a crisis about climate change, and in the midst of a crisis about the coronavirus, we need a president who believes in science," he says.
While Trump was telling America it was a "new hoax" and there is "no need to panic", Sanders told him to "start worrying... and do your job as president".
What made it worse was a briefing Trump was given about the American who'd died from COVID-19.
He called the person a "wonderful woman", but a doctor had previously said the patient was a "man in his 50s".
This all came after a whistleblower claimed the virus was spreading because proper training, equipment and checks weren't being carried out on those arriving from infected countries.
Former Vice-President Joe Biden claimed Trump was trying to gag health officials from telling the truth.
"Bad enough we have a president who can't tell the truth, now the President won't let other people tell the truth."
Super Tuesday on March 3 will see one-third of the country's votes cast to decide who will take on Trump as the Democratic nominee.
The Democrats' campaigning has hit fever pitch amid a fever with the potential to prove fatal.
