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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