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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, considered it “stupid” that his country did so many tests to detect covid-19, seeming to defend its reduction, the day after the United States registered a new record of infections.
At a rally this Saturday in the state of North Carolina, Trump took advantage of the media to “not stop talking about covid-19” and presumed that “the data” on the pandemic in the United States “is incredible”, despite the daily record of more than 85,000 new cases on Friday
“Do you know why we have so many cases? Because we do a lot of tests. And in many ways this is good, and in many others, it is stupid. In many ways, it is very stupid, “said Donald Trump, in the city of Lumberton, the first of three demonstrations he has planned for today.
“If we cut the tests we do in half, the cases would be cut in half,” added the president, emphasizing that the United States “spends a lot of money on tests.”
Trump assured that the amount of tests that are being carried out reveals many cases and that “it gives the false media something to talk about”, something he does not want in the electoral campaign, where his handling of the pandemic is one of the keys.
In a message on Twitter a few hours earlier, Trump said that the increase in COVID-19 cases “includes many low-risk people,” and accused the media of “doing everything possible to create fear before November 3.” , date of the elections.
Experts deny Trump’s argument that cases go up simply because more tests are being done, because that logic does not take into account that the percentage of positive tests has increased by more than one percentage point since the beginning of October, to 5.8 %. currently.
In total, the United States has passed 8.5 million cases and recorded more than 224,400 deaths since the pandemic began, more than any other country, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally.
