FACT CHECK: Trump Claims U.S. Testing For Coronavirus Most Per Capita — It's Not

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President Trump once again falsely claimed on Thursday that the U.S. has done more coronavirus testing on a per-capita basis than any other country. 🇩🇪 Germany: 1 in 90 people 🇰🇷 South Korea: 1 in 119 people 🇺🇸 U.S.: 1 in 273 people

a claim that the United States has done more testing for the contagion on a per-capita basis than any other country.

"We're now conducting well over 100,000 coronavirus tests per day," Trump said."It's over 100,000 tests a day. And these are accurate tests, and they're moving rapidly, which is more than any other country in the world, both in terms of the raw number and also on a per-capita basis, the most." While the United States has improved its testing numbers significantly, it still lags behind Germany and South Korea, for example, in terms of per-capita testing.

 

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The term 'Fact Check' in relation to whatever Trump says is redundant and nonsensical. There must be some other...

crack reporting there NPR...wow

Sorry but I don’t believe that the US has tested even 1 in 273. I know more people than that, and don’t know a single person who has gotten tested.

When it comes to statistics, “has done” will yield a very different result than “is doing,” which is what he said. I thought this type of partisan propaganda was below you. Shame. Did that huge government check you got come with caveats?

Trump lies, people die.

Continue to fact check. Truth matters

He lies

Why can’t you just say HE LIED?

Administered yes, results no.

If his lips are moving, he’s lying.

Nobody should believe anything he says in his shit show

NPR is the worst of the worst in reporting. I'd actually believe CNN over NPR and that's saying something. DefundNPR

Did you count commercial labs ? The commercial labs don't report test numbers , only positive ones. In Florida , around 5000 positive tests come from commercial, 5 times higher than public , Trump may be right adding up two parts !

TrumpPressConf seems to be at the Jethro Bodine level of the 3Rs. Ratios miss understood. Our double naught prez.

You should ask a few more specific questions. PM me.

God help us...this administration can't.

Never let a little thing like the truth get in the way of a good story!

Stop reporting for political gain. I used to love NPR. Now they just look for anything they can say against The President. It gets old. Report something life giving.

Lied

The kids in South Korea are getting ready to go back ti school. Our children's school year has ended prematurely because of dirtydonnie's poor management of the crises.

The way you can tell if he’s lying is if his mouth is open

you fools, you don't know the context, may be he was talking about some specific location or area. foreign controlled Foolish media people like NPR never seem to understand whats going on and then claim 'lie' realDonaldTrump WhiteHouse FoxNews

donisdumb

He said it many time the correct way. I heard him clearly state it correctly on multiple occasions.

Nepal, 1 in 300,000?

The Pinocchio President.

Go ahead You can say...trump lied....again for no good reason.

Love to hate on him don’t you. Be original for Pete’s sake ...

Of all the information provided in the news conference this the headline you choose?

He doesn't care. He knows his base is just like him, ignorant bc they don't read. They run around thinking their opinions are facts, just like Drumpf.

edegenias No shit, he only can lie

Well, he meant per capita of HIS kind of people — not everybody, for Pete’s sake! [and I suppose I need to point out that’s snark]

The Good old boy who cried wolf. Contradict the facts over and over again. USA... Under Sati n Authority.

Trump lies every day it’s why you shouldn’t listen to his daily propaganda speech

NPR=Communist news

Still can't get a test in AZ

The heathen of bullshit

Just shut up. Please.

TrumpLiesEverytimeHeSpeaks

And we give you taxpayer money because...why?

Now fact check China

Or this running the country

Fact check NPR is the enemy of the people

We’ve actually outpaced the other countries significantly. Trump just didn’t say that. Dr Birx said that. She’s working tirelessly too. NPR seems he’ll bent on taking a true general statement and twisting it to say Trump’s lying. NPR=Water boy for Democrats.

Trump supporters are not exactly the valedictorian type, 'see...our number's 273, Korea and Germany are way behind at 119 and 90!'

Does he understand the difference between 'truth' and 'lie'? I say highlight these words on a dictionary and send it to the White House!

I swear every time he opens his mouth... this is what I hear...

NPR, why did we taxpayers have to give you money again? You should learn about biting the hand that feeds you.

Donald Trump fails to grasp that trust is earned--so is distrust. Daily since birther he's taught us he pathologically lies & without the normal tell, thus how in the world can he believe we trust a word that comes out of his mouth. And that's dangerous at times like these.

Haven’t believed a word that man has ever said to begin with.

FAKE NEWS MEDIA is the virus!!!

Meh. Facts. Who needs 'em.

Honestly that nationwide per capita looks like a dream compared to NYC’s lack of tests. The amount of clearly symptomatic people being turned away, signs on clinic doors, the “no tests” emails from my doctor. My mom lives in another state & got tested easily. No symptoms even.

How much are you sending to hello with this virus ! Nothing ! You don’t deserve the $75 million you got !

Yawn

Serious question: did he say per capita or overall. One is factual one is not.

In Sweden we hardly test people at all, 1/1000 isnt close. So USA is way better the us.

Can Trump act like a president? or even just pretend? He really seems doesn't care at all 🙃

He thinks only of what benefits him, what makes him look good. To him there is no truth or lies, only pro himself or anti himself

Can’t wait until we take the house and de fund you

LyingTrump lies again

Trump’s a pathological liar

He constantly complains about 'fake news' or 'fake media' and all he does is spread fake news and misinformation by opening his mouth.

Always count on nprpolitics for negative news. This, of all statistics released, does not matter!

realDonaldTrump still believes he fathered his wife’s children.

MattLorenzo

Will it never end with the lies? When will he be taken off the airwaves?

There's the correlation between testing and lower death rate in Germany.

He speaks for the benefit of his specific herd of followers who listen only to him, or FAUX News, and they believe any lie he tells them.

Can't you give it a rest during a crisis?

Donald has no idea what “capita” means.

Has a man ever “falsely claimed” to not cheating? 🥴

So.Most testing overall, and third most testing per capita. Trump is wrong. Not by much, but still wrong.

The US is testing over 100,000 a day. Compare that to the UK which is testing 10,000 a day.

It's a lie and why isnt someone calling him on it during his tv rallies? johnson_carrie would do it. 🦸‍♀️

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