“We’ve tested more than every country combined,” @POTUS Trump said April 27. @shefalil fact checked that claim with @PolitiFact. Pants. On. Fire. #HealthCheck #COVID19testing khn.org/news/trumps-cl…
It was a variation on claims he had made April 24, as well as on Twitter the day after — when he said the U.S. had tested “more than any other country in the World, and even more than all major countries combined.”
We emailed the White House for comment but never heard back, so we turned to the data. Trump’s claim didn’t stand up to scrutiny.
We consulted a few independent estimates, all of which were recommended to us by global health experts: the #COVID Tracking Project, Worldometer and Our World in Data.
There is no reasonable way to conclude that the American system has run more diagnostics than “all other major countries combined.” Just by adding up a few other nations’ totals, you can quickly see Trump’s claim fall apart. politifact.com/factchecks/202…
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