On Tuesday, the United States’ top infectious disease expert, Anthony S. Fauci, illustrated again how far off Trump’s March 6 claim was. Nearly one-third of governors have said they lack sufficient coronavirus testing supplies needed to reopen their states. AD“We’re going with maximum testing, because it’s something we’re very capable of doing,” Trump said during a coronavirus news conference on Monday. The United States did not complete a total of 5 million tests until Saturday, over three months after the first confirmed case of the coronavirus in the United States. By Wednesday, Trump had pivoted to denying that he said the nation would “soon” be completing 5 million tests per day.

Source: Washington Post April 29, 2020 18:00 UTC