The United States has passed South Korea, considered the gold standard by the media, in testing for the coronavirus, and, in hot spots such as New York City, has done several times more per capita than the Asian nation.

As President Trump rolled out a new campaign to expand testing on Monday, officials drew attention to the overall effort by the administration in giving over 5 million tests and working in partnership with private labs and firms to increase the rate.

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