Fact check: Trump continues to falsely claim that spike in coronavirus cases is due to heightened testing

Facts First: The spike in US coronavirus cases is not being caused by an increase in testing. The number of confirmed new cases is increasing at a faster rate than the number of new tests.

Washington President Donald Trump has claimed over and over in the past week -- at campaign rallies, on Twitter and in an interview with"60 Minutes" -- that the US is only seeing so many coronavirus cases because the country is doing so much testing.

"Cases up because we TEST, TEST, TEST. A Fake News Media Conspiracy," he wrote on Twitter on Monday morning. Trump made similar claims during the summer spike in cases. They were flat wrong then, as we explained in a July fact check, and they are flat wrong now. And the number of hospitalizations and deaths is also rising, which shows that, contrary to Trump's repeated claims, the increase in the case numbers isn't merely being caused by tests capturing mild cases.

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