Pres. Trump says he does not 'take responsibility at all' for lag in COVID-19 testing: 'We were given a set of circumstances... it wasn't meant for this kind of an event with the kind of numbers that we're talking about.”
“Sleepy Joe Biden was in charge of the H1N1 Swine Flu epidemic which killed thousands of people,” the president said Thursday night in a tweet, even as the coronavirus has yet to fully run its course and top health officials have warned will get worse before it gets better.First, his claim that Biden was in charge is inaccurate. Former President Barack Obama never tapped Biden to run the government's response to the virus, as Trump has with Vice President Mike Pence on coronavirus.
Trump has previously sought to falsely blame to the Obama administration by claiming they implemented a regulation on testing that was in fact never implemented. While the previous administration had proposed the idea of increasing oversight of medical testing to protect patients from being given tests they don't need or from inaccurate results, they ultimately never acted on the proposal or made it a regulation.
President Donald Trump after a meeting with banking executives in the Cabinet Room of the White House, March 11, 2020, in Washington, DC.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has acknowledged that its initial test kits didn’t work as designed and that new tests were needed -- delaying the government’s ability to detect and contain the spread of the virus.
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