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Donald J Tump at a Rally in Tulsa OK.
“When you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people, you’re going to find more cases,”
“So I said to my people, ‘Slow the testing down, please.’ They test and they test.”
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To avoid bad statistics
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To make more money
Maybe Trump or an associate or friend owns stock in the major labs who are doing testing at $100 each and making a ton of money.
And as new portable testing units come along it will cut into that cash flow.
Tests like Abbot Labs BinaxNOW a five dollar test on a card that does not need a lab machine to get the results which are displayed on the card like a pregnancy test will also reduce the testing by the big labs.
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President Donald Trump said at the rally in Tulsa that he asked his administration to slow down coronavirus testing in order to not have as many positive tests show up.
He thinks the better statistics would make HIS economy look better therefore making it easier to get re-elected.
Among other things not having an accurate count of the infections makes the number of deaths statistic which is counted precisely look larger in comparison. For instance the US with 6 million reported cases the 182,000 deaths would be in 3% if cases. If the actual number of cases were counted the death rate might be less than 1%.
Make it seem more logical to return to normal for bussinesses and schools by re-opening before they should so the economy appears to be more functional.