Trump says the U.S. reached 1 million coronavirus cases because of large-scale testing
Speaking in the Oval Office, President Trump said the U.S. reached 1 million coronavirus cases because so much testing had been done.
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DONALD TRUMP: One thing I think I'd like to just finish by saying-- so we reached a million cases. And that's a tremendous amount and the reason is because of testing, because other countries don't test. So if you don't test, you're not going to find cases.
The reason we have a million-- take a look at number two. Number two is a fraction of that-- because they don't test. They don't have the ability to do what we're doing. So it's a number that in one way sounds bad but in another way is really actually an indication that our testing is so superior.
I mean, to think that we have more people, more cases than China-- does anybody really believe that? But the testing is different, and I think also that transparency is much different. Transparency is like from day and night. We are totally transparent. Whatever it is it is.
But because of our great testing and because of what we've done and the amount we've done, we are able to point out far more cases than anybody else has. If other countries did the kind of testing that we had-- now we're a much bigger country than most also in terms of people-- but if other countries did this kind of testing, you'd see numbers that would be much different. Thank you all very much.
