Trump claims that coronavirus testing is in “good shape” and governors who claim otherwise just don't “understand” how much his administration has given them
with him—the president is insisting that a key component of the country’s reopening strategy is in far better shape than it actually is. Trump continued to hype the U.S.’s testing capabilities Monday, using his press briefing to claim that the country is in “good shape” with testing even as governors, public health experts, and others on the ground are emphasizing that’s not the case. “We did a really good job with testing,” the president claimed Monday.
Continuing his hands-off approach to the coronavirus response that put the onus on states to secure their own medical supplies and issue their own stay-at-home orders, Trump’s rhetoric on testing Monday once again blamed governors for their inability to get the testing supplies they need. The president insisted that governors’ grievances about testing are merely overblown and based on a lack of awareness about what the federal government is doing, rather than true shortages in capacity.
States and experts, however, have made clear that the reported shortage in U.S. testing isn’t some made-up complaint to thwart Trump’s reelection, but a real problem that renders the country incapable of truly understanding how the coronavirus has spread. TheThursday that the U.S. has “hit a ceiling in its testing capacity,” with no “steady upward trajectory” in tests since April 1.
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