Texas, Arizona and Florida all reported their highest daily increases in new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, even after all three states implemented and later lifted stay-at-home orders meant to stop the spread of infections
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At the same time, Trump has been pushing misleading claims that infections are only increasing because there’s more testing, going so far as to claim Monday, without evidence, that “if we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.” Other state leaders have pushed back their own reopening efforts as cases have surged, including the governors of Utah and Oregon.
“You have to have society function,” he added. “To suppress a lot of working-age people at this point I don’t think would be very effective.”
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