Your task is to predict the verdict of a claim based on the provided question-answer pair evidence. The possible labels are: 'Supported', 'Refuted', 'Not Enough Evidence', 'Conflicting Evidence/Cherrypicking'. Justify your answer using the provided evidence and select the correct label.

Claim: Dr. Deborah Birx claimed that 40% of the USA had less than 200 cases combined of covid 19 on 26th of march 2020

Q1: Which states had fewer than 200 COVID_19 cases at the time of this claim?
A1: only 17 states — not 19 — had fewer than 200 cases as of March 26, when Birx made her remarks.

Q2: What is the combined population of these states?
A2: those 17 states have a combined population of 23,719,483, or just 7.2% of the total U.S. population of 328,239,523, according to 2019 population estimates by the Census Bureau.

Q3: Did the 40% of the country refer to population or numerical proportion of states?
A3: The numerical proportion of states - their combined population is only 7.2% of the US. So the figure is very misleading.
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justification: The QA figures are very comprehensive but there is some confusion in the answers as to whether the claim refers to percentage of states, or percentage of population.  The population figures are shown as 7.2% but the state figures are stated as 17 but the percentage (34%) is not actually shown. Either way it is less than 40% so refuted. 

verdict: 'Refuted'
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