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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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White House officials claimed that Trump was joking when he said Saturday that he asked to slow down testing.
President Donald Trump is looking to act on his call to slow down the testing he falsely blames for surge in coronavirus cases -- by cutting proposed funding.
Trump appeared to brag about ordering a slowing of Covid-19 testing at a Tulsa rally. He stands by his statement — no one else does.
Trump complained COVID testing made him look bad. Now, the administration is cutting federal testing support right as cases are surging.
President Trump said Saturday, “Here’s the bad part … 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.” He just refused to say he was joking.
Testing a ‘double-edged sword’, says Trump; Chile death toll nearly doubles; Australian state ‘absolutely at risk’ of second peak
White House and Trump campaign staff members dismissed the remarks as humor.
`By having more cases, it sounds bad.`
Senate GOP lawmakers, angered by the administration`s position, are pushing back and trying to keep the money for testing and tracing in the bill, two Republican sources told NBC News.
Describing testing as a `double-edged sword`, the US President says he told authorities to slow down because it was adding to the number of COVID-19 infections being recorded.
Coronavirus testing remains a visible problem for President Trump, who keeps insisting that the increased number of tests is responsible for the recent surge in cases. Experts have already explained why such claims don`t make sense.
President Donald Trump launched his comeback rally Saturday by defining the upcoming election as a stark choice between national heritage and left-wing radicalism. But his intended show of political force amid a pandemic featured thousands of empty seats and new coronavirus cases on his own campaign staff. Trump ignored health warnings to go through with […]
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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.