President Trump touted the number of coronavirus tests that have been done since the start of the outbreak.
Speaking at Monday’s White House news conference, Trump attributed the rise in cases across the country to the testing and showed off a chart that detailed the daily increase in the number of patients tested for COVID-19.
“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.”
“That number is growing by nearly 125,000 people per day. Think of that one,” he continued. “We also have, they say, the most accurate of tests.”
As of Monday afternoon, there have been more than 362,000 cases of the coronavirus across the country and at least 10,689 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker.
