If there’s one thing Donald Trump does best it’s lie about the size of things.
“Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver pointed out that one of the most
dangerous things the president is lying about right now is the size of
the group of people that will be tested for the coronavirus.
When asked this week if the U.S. could reach the benchmark of 5
million coronavirus tests per day recommended by public-health
experts, Trump said USA would. “Well, it will increase it, and it’ll increase it by much more than that
in the very near future,”
Trump said, before going off on another
incoherent fever-dream that he has singlehandedly saved the world in
some kind of war.
The reporter followed up, “Sorry, are you saying you’re confident you can surpass 5 million tests per day?”
“Well, we’re going to be there very soon,” he said, more concisely.
“If you look at the numbers, it could be that we’re getting very close. I
mean, I don’t have the exact numbers. We would have had them if you
asked me the same question a little while ago because people with the
statistics were there. We’re going to be there very soon.”
Currently, the U.S. is only able to test about 200,000 people per day.
“There is absolutely no way on Earth, on this planet or any other
planet, that we can do 20 million tests a day, or even 5 million tests a
day,” said Admiral Brett Giroir, assistant secretary of health. He’s
the person in charge of the U.S. testing response.
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