The COVID Diaries – 79 15th June
The Independent has reported today:
“Donald Trump is blaming an uptick in coronavirus cases and hospitalisations
solely on an increase in testing rather than his push for governors to reopen
their states even as the sometimes-deadly disease continues to spread.
“If we stop testing right
now, we’d have very few cases, if any,” the president said Monday during
an event for seniors at the White House.
A number of states have reported
record numbers of sick people requiring hospital stays since the pandemic
begin, even as they continue steps to get their economies open again.
But the president and his team
have denied that his insistence governors get their states open is causing the
increase in cases.
The Monday remark was mere the
latest time the president has made strange comments about Covid-19 testing.
He has consistently sounded
inconsistent messages, bragging that the US has tested more people than other
countries while also complaining that the number of known infections (2.1m) and
deaths (over 115,000) are so high because of that testing rate.”