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“And
don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world,” he added.
“But why? Because we do more testing. When you test, you have a case.
When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do
any testing, we would have very few cases.”
Trump
said the news media had refused to report his “common sense” explanation
for the country’s high case numbers. He repeated the misleading claim
that the U.S. has tested more people than other countries, sidestepping
the reality that testing as a share of the population is lower than in
other countries.
The Biden campaign issued a statement Thursday evening criticizing the president‘s comments and his response to the crisis.
“With his statement today, President
Trump has once again demonstrated that he is more concerned with his
poll numbers and his reelection than he is with safeguarding American
lives and delivering real economic recovery — both of which every expert
tells us can only happen with adequate testing capacity to track and
stop this disease,“ the statement said.
Yes, more tests reveal more cases. If they tested the whole population, no doubt, the official number would go up. That would be a good thing to do.
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