‘Quite the opposite’: Experts reject Trump comments on testing
that have been through severe outbreaks, that number is currently much lower: 1.4 percent in Spain, 1.1 percent in France, 0.8 percent in Italy, 0.6 percent in Germany and 0.5 percent in the United Kingdom.
The rate of testing in the U.S. might be three times higher than in Germany, he acknowledged, but that does not provide any explanation for why the curve is steepening again in the U.S. Americans in many states are waiting hours to be tested, then up to a week or longer for their results, meaning the snapshot of the pandemic provided by those results is quickly outdated.
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