CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “And, frankly, if we didn’t test, you wouldn’t have all the headlines because we’re showing cases. And we have just about the lowest mortality rate. But if we did — think of this: If we didn’t do testing — instead of testing over 40 million people, if we did half the testing, we would have half the cases. If we did another — you cut that in half, we would have, yet again, half of that.
But the headlines are always testing. Now, the testing is a good thing, but at the same time, it’s — it’s fodder for the fake news to report cases. So we’re doing 40 million-plus, going to be very close to 45 million people. And when I turn on the news, I see, ‘cases, cases, cases.’ They don’t talk about deaths being cut down to a level that — actually, ‘tenfold,’ they use.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Conference,” whitehouse.gov, July 14, 2020