“I don’t look at that as a bad thing,” Trump said.
of confirmed coronavirus cases in the world, topping 1.5 million infections, more than the next six largest country outbreaks combined. That is, of course, a bad thing. As a result, the U.S. also leads the world in coronavirus deaths with more than 90,000. No matter where the virus originated or how it first hopscotched across the planet, topping the charts in confirmed cases months later represents a failure of national leadership to protect Americans.
“When we have a lot of cases,” Trump continued, “I don’t look at that as a bad thing. I look at that as, in a certain respect, as being a good thing because it means our testing is much better.” So, when you really think about it, what we’re actually doing is winning the pandemic? It’s certainly true that testing for and classification of coronavirus cases varies wildly in countries around the world, due to capacity and interest in sniffing out the pandemic.
Correction, May 20, 2020: This post originally misstated the number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. There are currently more than 1.5 million confirmed cases, not 1.5 cases.
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