President Trump slammed an inspector general report that detailed “severe” shortages of medical supplies during the coronavirus pandemic.
“Did I hear the word inspector general?” the president responded to a reporter’s question about the report during a Monday press briefing. “It’s just wrong.”
Earlier on Monday, the inspector general published a report of 323 hospitals around the country and found that there was a “severe” shortage of medical supplies. “The level of anxiety among staff is like nothing I’ve ever seen,” one administrator was quoted in the report.
The report pointed specifically to a shortage of tests. Trump said during the press conference that the United States had performed nearly 1.8 million tests.
“We have more cases because we do much more testing,” the president said. “So, when you do the testing, you have cases. Otherwise, you wouldn’t know about the cases. People sit home, you don’t know about it. But we have now done 1,790,000 tests nationwide — that’s more than any other country in the world.”
So far, there have been more than 350,000 coronavirus cases in the U.S. and over 10,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
