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"Testing is a Double Edged Sword" #1015

Season 1, Ep. 1015

Today President Trump stated at a rally in Tulsa, where COVID cases are spiking and where the event tickets included a disclaimer not to sue the Trump campaign if they caught the deadly virus at his rally, that he had directed officials to slow virus testing and find fewer COVID-19 cases. 


The self proclaimed businessman's claim of the US doing twenty million more test than the next nearest country is also a slight exaggeration. There are no countries in the testing Top 5 that the US tested twenty million more than. 

The first country that the US has conducted twenty million more tests than is Italy, who's entire population is sixty million. 



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SOURCES: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:COVID-19_testing_by_country

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/20/coronavirus-live-updates-us/

https://www.tulsaworld.com/news/covid-19-oklahoma-numbers-continue-to-spike-with-450-new-cases-2-more-oklahomans-deaths/article_c7bd2ce0-292f-5c3c-bb12-2e4c4efe11b5.html

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