8/10/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “We want to discuss, if we might, the China virus. And the world continues its fight against this horrible plague. Countries in every continent are seeing increases in cases. We have a rapid increase only in cases where — it’s very interesting: Because we’re so far ahead of [coronavirus] testing, we have more cases. If we had much smaller testing, we’d have fewer, but we feel that having testing is a very important thing.

It’s a great — it’s a great record to have. In many ways, we — we’ve tested, I guess, close to 65 million people right now, and nobody is even close to that number.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 10, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 10, 2020