There is ample reason to doubt President Trump's claim that the only reason America has more confirmed cases is that it has conducted more tests
President Trump responded late Tuesday to the news that United States had topped more 1 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus, roughly one-third of the reported global total to date.
While the U.S. has indeed tested more people than any other country — 5.7 million tests have been administered in the nation since the start of the pandemic — there is ample reason to doubt the president’s claim that the only reason America has more confirmed cases is that it has conducted more tests.
And while the U.S. has significantly ramped up testing since late March, when the number of cases climbed into the thousands, it is still nowhere close to the 5 million daily tests that health experts say are needed to safely reopen the country.The single-day high for tests given in the U.S. was 314,182 on April 22, according to data from the
The president and the members of the White House coronavirus task force have made clear that testing will play a central role in helping jump-start the nation’s economy, but Trump’s boast of more tests performed to date also leaves out another important point. Thanks in part to an error with an early test developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a federal bottleneck in supplies needed to collect and transport the samples, the U.S.
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